• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.18-26
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• 2011

This paper presents a method, Exposure Controlled Temporal Filtering (ECF), applied to visual motion tracking, that can cancel the temporal aliasing of periodic vibrations of cameras and fluctuations in illumination through the control of exposure time. We first present a theoretical analysis of the exposure induced image time integration process and how it samples sensor impingent light that is periodically fluctuating. Based on this analysis we develop a simple method to cancel high frequency vibrations that are temporally aliased onto sampled image sequences and thus to subsequent motion tracking measurements. Simulations and experiments using the 'Center of Gravity' and Normalized Cross-Correlation motion tracking methods were performed on a microscopic motion tracking system to validate the analytical predictions.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1995년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.123-126
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• 1995

The purpose of this paper is to improve ultrasound images using motion estimation and recursive filtering. Although averaging without motion correction can make image blurring, the proposed estimation method improves image SNR without motion blurring by recursively averaging images with motion correction. Computer simulation on the proposed method has been performed to improve phantom and ultrasound fish images and the results show the utility of the proposed method.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.78-87
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• 2012

In this paper, we address the tracking problem caused by camera motion and rolling shutter effects associated with CMOS sensors in consumer handheld cameras, such as mobile cameras, digital cameras, and digital camcorders. A modified particle filtering method is proposed for simultaneously tracking objects and compensating for the effects of camera motion. The proposed method uses an elastic registration algorithm (ER) that considers the global affine motion as well as the brightness and contrast between images, assuming that camera motion results in an affine transform of the image between two successive frames. By assuming that the camera motion is modeled globally by an affine transform, only the global affine model instead of the local model was considered. Only the brightness parameter was used in intensity variation. The contrast parameters used in the original ER algorithm were ignored because the change in illumination is small enough between temporally adjacent frames. The proposed particle filtering consists of the following four steps: (i) prediction step, (ii) compensating prediction state error based on camera motion estimation, (iii) update step and (iv) re-sampling step. A larger number of particles are needed when camera motion generates a prediction state error of an object at the prediction step. The proposed method robustly tracks the object of interest by compensating for the prediction state error using the affine motion model estimated from ER. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional particle filter, and can track moving objects robustly in consumer handheld imaging devices.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.1645-1654
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• 1993

본 논문에서는 기존의 잡음 제거용 순환 filter와 달리 시간축 대역제한을 통해 시각특성의 개선과 영상데이타 압축 효과를 개선시키는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 일반적으로 시간축 대역제한을 수행하려면 시간방향으로의 aliasing을 고려해야 한다. 신호 처리 관점에서 보면 신호에 aliasing이 생긴다면 이의 영향을 받지않고 (de-aliasing) filtering하는 것은 불가능하다고 알려져있다. 그러나 영상신호에서는 baseband spectrum 구조를 예측할 수 있고, 이를 토대로 aliasing의 영향을 받지않는 대역제한 방안을 생각할 수 있다. 이는 이동벡터의 궤적을 따라 공간 영역에서 대역제한(Motion Adaptive Spatial Filter)을 하는 것으로서 이들의 특성 및 구성방안으 제안한다. 이렇게 구성된 filter는 aliasing의 제기 뿐만아니라 시간축 잡음의 제거에도 기여를 하게 된다. 실험에서는 제안방법의 de-aliasing 특성과 영상부호화기로의 적용결과를 알아본다.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제33B권8호
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• pp.60-67
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• 1996

In this paper, we propose a new temporal interpolation method based on spatial filtering. Compared with the conventional method, the proposed one may use a few adjacent frames and apply temporal lowpass filtering. To develop this method, we follow the basic approach of sampling rate conversion. Additionally, we use some assumption of video sequence : moving object has constant velocity rigid translational motion. From them, spatial filtering for temporal sampling rate conversion is described. This method has a lot of noise immunity on a motion vector and doesn't make a great difference from the original frame. The interpolated frame shows moderate change even there is a great time difference. This method has exactly same description of motion adaptive spatial filter which has an efficient temporal band-limiting characteristics. It imposes the possibility to make video sequence with good pictural quality.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.456-465
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• 2006

The problem of recursive filtering far linear discrete-time systems with uncertainties is considered. A new suboptimal filtering algorithm is herein proposed. It is based on the fusion formula, which represents an optimal mean-square linear combination of local Kalman estimates with weights depending on cross-covariances between local filtering errors. In contrast to the optimal weights, the suboptimal weights do not depend on current measurements, and thus the proposed algorithm can easily be implemented in real-time. High accuracy and efficiency of the suboptimal filtering algorithm are demonstrated on the following examples: damper harmonic oscillator motion and vehicle motion constrained to a plane.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.706-713
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• 1997

In this paper, we propose a band stop filter(BSF) for reducing drag-like effect of the low pass filter(LPF), a block by block adaptive filtering method, and a motion adaptive filtering method, which show better results in terms of PSNR or human visual perception compared to the conventional method using LPF. The BSF improves the draglike effects of the low pass filter by passing temporal high frequency components of video sequences which correspond to objects with large motion. The proposed adaptive methods also improve the conventional adaptive filtering by modifying the conventional algorithm and applying the algorithms for small blocks. The simulation results show that the proposed filtering methods show better results in terms of PSNR and subjective tests in most cases. Also in case of block by block adaptive filtering, it is verified that the application of the algorithm for smaller block gives better results.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2010

동영상에 내재된 잡음을 제거하기 위해 사용되는 움직임 적응적 시간영역 잡음 제거 필터링에서는 움직임의 정도에 따라 필터링의 강도를 적절하게 조절하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 최적 자승 학습에 기반을 둔 움직임 적응적 시간영역필터링 방안을 제안한다. 움직임 정도에 따라 각 화소를 분류하여 분류코드를 지정하고, 각 분류코드에 따라 반복적 최적 자승학습에 기반을 둔 최적의 필터 계수를 유도한다. 반복적 학습과정은 사전에 미리 수행되어 학습된 결과만 룩업 테이블에 저장된다. 실제 잡음 제거 필터링 과정에서는 각 화소를 움직임 정도에 따라 분류한 후 분류코드에 따라 룩업 테이블에 있는 필터계수를 읽어 간결한 필터링을 취한다. 실험결과는 제안된 방법이 잡음 제거 응용에서 번짐을 방지하면서 동영상 잡음을 효과적으로 제거함을 보여준다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.1474-1482
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 적응적 가중치 함수를 이용하여 블록 단위의 모션 벡터를 필터링하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 먼저 인접한 영상을 받아 들여 가변적 크기의 블록 정합 방법을 이용하여 모션 벡터를 추출한다. 그리고 추출된 모션 벡터를 강건 예측에 적용하여 아웃라이어(outlier)를 제거함으로써 강건 예측에서 사용하는 동작 모델에 근접한 모션 벡터만을 추출한다. 제안된 적응적 강건 예측은 연속적인 시그모이드 가중치 함수를 사용하여 정상 자료와 아웃라이어의 소속 정도를 보다 효과적으로 표현한다. 또한, 최소화 기법의 반복 단계에서 잔여에러가 감소함에 따라 점진적으로 시그모이드 가중치 함수를 조율함으로써 정상 자료와 아웃라이어를 보다 유연하게 분리한다. 실험에서는 카메라의 동작이 포함된 비디오 데이타를 입력 받아 성능을 비교 분석함으로써 제안한 방법의 우수함을 보인다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2011

In this paper, an adaptive motion vector smoothing scheme based on weighted vector median filtering is proposed in order to eliminate the motion outliers more effectively for improving the quality of side information in frame-based distributed video coding. We use a simple motion vector outlier reliability measure for each block in a motion compensated interpolated frame and apply weighted vector median filtering only to the blocks with unreliable motion vectors. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive motion vector smoothing algorithm improves the quality of the side information significantly while maintaining low complexity at the encoder in frame-based distributed video coding.