• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.927-942
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• 2014

Structural displacement is an important indicator for assessing structural safety. For structural displacement monitoring, vision-based displacement measurement systems have been widely developed; however, most systems estimate only 1 or 2-DOF translational displacement. To monitor the 6-DOF structural displacement with high accuracy, a vision-based displacement measurement system with a uniquely designed marker is proposed in this paper. The system is composed of a uniquely designed marker and a camera with a zooming capability, and relative translational and rotational displacement between the marker and the camera is estimated by finding a homography transformation. The novel marker is designed to make the system robust to measurement noise based on a sensitivity analysis of the conventional marker and it has been verified through Monte Carlo simulation results. The performance of the displacement estimation has been verified through two kinds of experimental tests; using a shaking table and a motorized stage. The results show that the system estimates the structural 6-DOF displacement, especially the translational displacement in Z-axis, with high accuracy in real time and is robust to measurement noise.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.141-149
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• 2018

In image processing and robotic applications, two-dimensional (2D) black and white patterned planar markers are widely used. However, these markers are not detectable in low visibility environment and they are not changeable. This research proposes an active and adaptive marker node, which displays 2D marker patterns using light emitting diode (LED) arrays for easier recognition in the foggy or turbid underwater environments. Because each node is made to blink at a different frequency, active LED marker nodes were distinguishable from each other from a long distance without increasing the size of the marker. We expect that the proposed system can be used in various harsh conditions where the conventional marker systems are not applicable because of low visibility issues. The proposed system is still compatible with the conventional marker as the displayed patterns are identical.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.191-198
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• 2015

In this paper, six-degree-of-freedom (DoF). Displacement measurement technique using a compact stereo-vision system is proposed. The measuring system consists of a camera, an optical prism, two plane mirrors, and a planar marker on a target. The target was attached on an object so that its six-DoF displacement can be calculated using a proposed coordinates estimating algorithm and stereo images of the marker. A prototype was designed and fabricated for performance test. From the test results, it can be confirmed that the proposed measuring technique can be applied to monitoring and control of various manipulators.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.301-308
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 마커없이 구조물의 변위를 측정할 수 있는 영상기반 변위계측 시스템(NVDMS)을 제안한다. 기존의 방식과 제안하는 NVDMS는 크게 두 가지의 차이점이 있다. 첫째, NVDMS는 마커를 사용하지 않고 구조물의 특징점의 픽셀좌표 변화를 추출한다. 둘째, 특징점의 픽셀좌표를 물리좌표로 변환하는 scaling factor는 기존 방식에선 마커의 크기로부터 계산되는 반면, NVDMS에서는 카메라와 구조물사이의 거리, 각도, 초점거리로 계산된다. 3층 축소모형의 자유진동 실험에서 제안한 NVDMS로부터 얻은 변위데이터의 신뢰도를 분석하기 위해 LDS로부터 얻은 변위데이터의 비교를 하였으며, 얻어진 변위데이터를 이용하여 동특성을 분석하였다. 분석결과 NVDMS는 마커없이 구조물의 동적변위를 정밀하게 측정가능할 뿐만 아니라 얻어진 변위데이터로부터 추출한 동특성의 신뢰도 또한 높았다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2013

In this paper, we describe a vision sensor-based driving algorithm for indoor automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) that facilitates a path tracking task using two mono cameras for navigation. One camera is mounted on vehicle to observe the environment and to detect markers in front of the vehicle. The other camera is attached so the view is perpendicular to the floor, which compensates for the distance between the wheels and markers. The angle and distance from the center of the two wheels to the center of marker are also obtained using these two cameras. We propose five movement patterns for AGVs to guarantee smooth performance during path tracking: starting, moving straight, pre-turning, left/right turning, and stopping. This driving algorithm based on two vision sensors gives greater flexibility to AGVs, including easy layout change, autonomy, and even economy. The algorithm was validated in an experiment using a two-wheeled mobile robot.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.20-27
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• 2023

In this study, the deformation of materials was measured using the video and tracking API of OpenCV. Circular markers attached to the material were selected the region of interests (ROIs). The position of the marker was measured from the area center of the circular marker. The position and displacement of the center point was measured along the image frames. For the verification, tensile tests were conducted. In the tensile test, four circular markers were attached along the longitudinal and transverse directions. The strain was calculated using the distance between markers both in the longitudinal and transverse direction. As a result, the stress-strain curve obtained using machine vision is compared to the stress-strain curve obtained from the DIC results. RMSE values of the strain from the machine vision and DIC were less than 0.005. In addition, as a measurement example, a bending angle and springback measurement according to bending deformation, and a moving position measurement of a punch, a blank holder, and a die by time change were performed. Using the proposed method, the deformation and displacement of the materials were measured precisely and easily.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.618-632
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• 2010

This paper presents a novel approach to control the augmented reality (AR) objects robustly in a marker-less AR system by fingertip tracking and hand pattern recognition. It is known that one of the promising ways to develop a marker-less AR system is using human's body such as hand or face for replacing traditional fiducial markers. This paper introduces a real-time method to manipulate the overlaid virtual objects dynamically in a marker-less AR system using both hands with a single camera. The left bare hand is considered as a virtual marker in the marker-less AR system and the right hand is used as a hand mouse. To build the marker-less system, we utilize a skin-color model for hand shape detection and curvature-based fingertip detection from an input video image. Using the detected fingertips the camera pose are estimated to overlay virtual objects on the hand coordinate system. In order to manipulate the virtual objects rendered on the marker-less AR system dynamically, a vision-based hand control interface, which exploits the fingertip tracking for the movement of the objects and pattern matching for the hand command initiation, is developed. From the experiments, we can prove that the proposed and developed system can control the objects dynamically in a convenient fashion.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(3)
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• pp.199-202
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• 2002

We described a real-time 3D computer vision system called MIMIC(Motion interface f Motion information Capture system) that can capture and save motion of an actor. This system analyzes input images from vision sensors and searches feature information like a head, hands, and feet. Moreover, this estimates intermediated joints as an elbow and hee using feature information and makes 3D human model having 20 joints. This virtual human model mimics the motion of an actor in real-time. Therefore this system can realize the movement of an actor unaffectedly because of making intermediated joint for complete human body contrary to other marker-free motion capture system.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.5854-5860
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 대표적인 토목구조물인 교량에서 영상 기반 변위 계측장치(VDMS)를 이용하여 변위를 측정하고, 고가의 변위측정장비인 LDV와의 비교를 통하여 그 현장 적용 성능을 평가하였다. 본 연구에서 사용한 VDMS는 카메라와 마커, 프레임 그래버, 노트북으로 구성되었으며, 마커를 구조물에 부착하여 그 영상을 촬영하고 평면 호모그래피 기법을 이용하여 마커가 부착된 구조물의 변위를 측정하는 장치이다. 개발된 VDMS의 성능 검증을 위하여 우선 소형 구조물을 이용한 간단한 실내 실험을 수행하였다. 다음으로 실제 철도교량에서 KTX를 다양한 조건으로 주행하고, 그에 의하여 발생한 변위를 VDMS과 LDV를 이용하여 계측한 뒤, 얻어진 두 변위를 비교하여 VDMS의 현장 적용 성능을 평가하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.67-80
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 스테레오 비전을 이용하여 기존의 포인팅 디바이스인 마우스를 대신할 새로운 포인팅 디바이스 방법을 제안 한다. 제안한 방법은 기존의 인식 장비들이 가진 마커에 의한 움직임 제약과 고가 장비의 단점을 극복하기 위해 컴퓨터 비전을 이용한다. 즉, 사람이 시각을 통해 정보를 인식하는 것과 동일하게 컴퓨터의 영상 정보를 이용하여 실시간으로 영상내의 컬러 영역의 분할을 통해 물체의 위치를 추적 및 정합하고 이의 위치를 스테레오 기하학 정보로부터 계산하여 포인팅 동작을 수행한다.