• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.937-942
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• 2003

We present a self-localization method for mobile robots using vertical line features of indoor environment. When a 2D map including feature points and color information is given, a mobile robot moves to the destination, and acquires images from the surroundings having vertical line edges by one camera. From the image, vertical line edges are detected, and pattern vectors meaning averaged color values of the left and right regions of the each line are computed by using the properties of the line and a region growing method. The pattern vectors are matched with the feature points of the map by comparing the color information and the geometrical relationship. From the perspective transformation and rigid transformation of the corresponded points, nonlinear equations are derived. Localization is carried out from solving the equations by using Newton's method. Experimental results show that the proposed method using mono view is simple and applicable to indoor environment.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.457-469
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• 2003

In this paper, we have proposed the efficient algorithm that can segment the video scene change using a various statistical characteristics obtained from by applying the wavelet transformation for each frames. Our method firstly extracts the histogram features from low frequency subband of wavelet-transformed image and then uses these features to detect the abrupt scene change. Second, it extracts the edge information from applying the mesh method to the high frequency subband of transformed image. We quantify the extracted edge information as the values of variance characteristic of each pixel and use these values to detect the gradual scene change. And we have also proposed an algorithm how extract the proper key frame from segmented video scene. Experiment results show that the proposed method is both very efficient algorithm in segmenting video frames and also is to become the appropriate key frame extraction method.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.217-227
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• 2017

Crosswalk detection is an important part of the Pedestrian Protection System in autonomous vehicles. Different methods of crosswalk detection have been introduced so far using crosswalk edge features, the distance between crosswalk blocks, laser scanning, Hough Transformation, and Fourier Transformation. However, most of these methods failed to detect crosswalks accurately, when they are damaged, faded away or partly occluded. Furthermore, these methods face difficulties when applying on real road environment where there are lot of vehicles. In this paper, we solve this problem by first using a region based binarization technique and x-axis histogram to detect the candidate crosswalk areas. Then, we apply Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classification method to decide whether the candidate areas contain a crosswalk or not. Experiment results prove that our method can detect crosswalks in different environment conditions with higher recognition rate even they are faded away or partly occluded.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.370-376
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• 2023

Aiming at the problems of low image enhancement accuracy, long enhancement time and poor image quality in the traditional robot sequence motion image enhancement methods, an adaptive enhancement method for robot sequence motion image is proposed. The feature representation of the image was obtained by Karhunen-Loeve (K-L) transformation, and the nonlinear relationship between the robot joint angle and the image feature was established. The trajectory planning was carried out in the robot joint space to generate the robot sequence motion image, and an adaptive homomorphic filter was constructed to process the noise of the robot sequence motion image. According to the noise processing results, the brightness of robot sequence motion image was enhanced by using the multi-scale Retinex algorithm. The simulation results showed that the proposed method had higher accuracy and consumed shorter time for enhancement of robot sequence motion images. The simulation results showed that the image enhancement accuracy of the proposed method could reach 100%. The proposed method has important research significance and economic value in intelligent monitoring, automatic driving, and military fields.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2007년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.34 No.2 (B)
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• pp.50-54
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• 2007

소프트웨어 개발을 위한 모델링 방법 중 대표적인 것으로 UML을 이용한 방법이 있으며, 제품계열공학에서 소프트웨어의 재사용을 위한 모델링 방법으로 feature 모델링에 관한 연구가 진행 되고 있다. feature 모델링 방법은 잘 정의된 개발 기법을 제공하여 활용되고 있으나 다소 범용 적이지 않다. 또한 그 구조물이 UML과 상이하여 UML사용자가 feature 모델을 재사용하는 데는 어려움을 가지고 있고, feature 모델에서 class모델로의 변환을 제시한 기존연구는 도메인 전문가에 의해 경험적으로 모델링을 하기 때문에 모호성과 이해의 오류, 그리고 잘못된 해석 등의 문제가 발생 된다. 그리고, feature 모델과 class모델의 모든 요소를 매핑하여 변환하지 않는다는 점에서 완전하지 못하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Ontology를 이용하여 의미 기반의 명확한 명세를 통한 feature모델의 class 모델로의 변환기법을 제시하고, 이를 위해 feature 모델과 class 모델의 구조물의 요소를 정의하고 이를 기반으로 feature 모델과 OWL, 그리고 class 모델 속성간의 매핑 규칙을 제시하고, 본 논문에서 제시한 변환 프로세스를 이용하여 사례연구를 하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.315-324
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• 2023

꾸준히 증가하는 노인성 질환 환자 대상으로 몰입형 디지털 콘텐츠를 이용한 쉽고 정확한 전신 재활 상호작용 기술이 필요하며, 본 연구에서는 이를 위해 홀로렌즈와 키넥트를 사용한 전신 상호작용 기술을 소개한다. 이를 위해 메쉬 특징점 기반 변환, AR 마커 기반 변환, 신체 인식 기반 변환 방법의 3가지 좌표 변환 방식을 제안한다. 메쉬 특징점 기반 변환은 공간 메쉬에 3개의 특징점을 지정하고 변환 행렬을 이용하여 좌표계를 일치시킨다. 이 방법은 수작업이 필요하여 사용성이 떨어지지만 정확도가 8.5mm로 상대적으로 높다. AR 마커 기반 방식은 홀로렌즈s와 키넥트가 동시에 인식하는 AR, QR마커를 사용하여 평균오차 11.2mm로 준수한 정확도를 달성했다. 신체 인식 기반 변환 방법은 두 기기가 동시에 인식하는 머리 혹은 HMD위치와 양 손 혹은 컨트롤러 위치를 이용하여 좌표계를 일치시킨다. 이 방법은 정확도가 떨어지지만 부가적인 도구나 수작업이 필요 없으므로 사용성이 좋다. 또한 후처리 기술로 RANSAC을 적용함으로써 오차를 10% 이상 줄였다. 이러한 3가지 방식은 콘텐츠가 필요한 사용 편의성과 정확도에 따라서 선택적으로 적용할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 이 기술을 이용해서 '썬더펀치'와 재활 치료 콘텐츠에 적용하여 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.188-199
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• 2013

This paper presents a novel algorithm for nighttime detection of the lane markers painted on a road at night. First of all, the proposed algorithm uses neighborhood average filtering, 8-directional Sobel operator and thresholding segmentation based on OTSU's to handle raw lane images taken from a digital CCD camera. Secondly, combining intensity map and gradient map, we analyze the distribution features of pixels on boundaries of lanes in the nighttime and construct 4 feature sets for these points, which are helpful to supply with sufficient data related to lane boundaries to detect lane markers much more robustly. Then, the searching method in multiple directions- horizontal, vertical and diagonal directions, is conducted to eliminate the noise points on lane boundaries. Adapted Hough transformation is utilized to obtain the feature parameters related to the lane edge. The proposed algorithm can not only significantly improve detection performance for the lane marker, but it requires less computational power. Finally, the algorithm is proved to be reliable and robust in lane detection in a nighttime scenario.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.1188-1193
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• 2013

In content based image retrieval (CBIR) system, the images are represented based upon its feature such as color, texture, shape, and spatial relationship etc. In this paper, we propose a MRI Image Retrieval using wavelet transform with mahalanobis distance measurement. Wavelet transformation can also be easily extended to 2-D (image) or 3-D (volume) data by successively applying 1-D transformation on different dimensions. The proposed algorithm has tested using wavelet transform and performance analysis have done with HH and $H^*$ elimination methods. The retrieval image is the relevance between a query image and any database image, the relevance similarity is ranked according to the closest similar measures computed by the mahalanobis distance measurement. An adaptive similarity synthesis approach based on a linear combination of individual feature level similarities are analyzed and presented in this paper. The feature weights are calculated by considering both the precision and recall rate of the top retrieved relevant images as predicted by our enhanced technique. Hence, to produce effective results the weights are dynamically updated for robust searching process. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is easily identifies target object and reduces the influence of background in the image and thus improves the performance of MRI image retrieval.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.180-194
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• 2021

For small image registration, feature-based approaches are likely to fail as feature detectors cannot detect enough feature points from low-resolution images. The classic FFT approach's prediction accuracy is high, but the registration time can be relatively long, about several seconds to register one image pair. To achieve real-time and high-precision rigid registration for small images, we apply deep neural networks for supervised rigid transformation prediction, which directly predicts the transformation parameters. We train deep registration models with rigidly transformed CIFAR-10 images and STL-10 images, and evaluate the generalization ability of deep registration models with transformed CIFAR-10 images, STL-10 images, and randomly generated images. Experimental results show that the deep registration models we propose can achieve comparable accuracy to the classic FFT approach for small CIFAR-10 images (32×32) and our LSTM registration model takes less than 1ms to register one pair of images. For moderate size STL-10 images (96×96), FFT significantly outperforms deep registration models in terms of accuracy but is also considerably slower. Our results suggest that deep registration models have competitive advantages over conventional approaches, at least for small images.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.77-88
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• 1993

In this paper, we propose a stereo vision system to solve correspondence problem with large disparity and sudden change in environment which result from small distance between camera and working objects. First of all, a specific feature is divided by predfined elementary feature. And then these are combined to obtain coded data for solving correspondence problem. We use Neural Network to extract elementary features from specific feature and to have adaptability to noise and some change of the shape. Fourier transformation and Log-polar mapping are used for obtaining appropriate Neural Network input data which has a shift, scale, and rotation invariability. Finally, we use associative memory to obtain coded data of the specific feature from the combination of elementary features. In spite of specific feature with some variation in shapes, we could obtain satisfactory 3-dimensional data from corresponded codes.