• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.107-111
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• 2021

A 3D point cloud map is an essential elements in various fields, including precise autonomous navigation system. However, generating a 3D point cloud map using a single sensor has limitations due to the price of expensive sensor. In order to solve this problem, we propose a precise 3D mapping system using low-cost sensor fusion. Generating a point cloud map requires the process of estimating the current position and attitude, and describing the surrounding environment. In this paper, we utilized a commercial visual-inertial odometry sensor to estimate the current position and attitude states. Based on the state value, the 2D LiDAR measurement values describe the surrounding environment to create a point cloud map. To analyze the performance of the proposed algorithm, we compared the performance of the proposed algorithm and the 3D LiDAR-based SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) algorithm. As a result, it was confirmed that a precise 3D point cloud map can be generated with the low-cost sensor fusion system proposed in this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.40-41
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• 2020

As the capacity of the 3d scanner developed, the reverse engineering using the 3d scanner is emphasized in the construction industry to obtain the 3d geometric representation of buildings. However, big size of the indoor point cloud data acquired by the 3d scanner restricts the efficient process in the reverse engineering. In order to solve this inefficiency, several pre-processing methods simplifying and denoising the raw point cloud data by the rough standard are developed, but these non-standard methods can cause the inaccurate recognition and removal the key-points. This paper analyzes the correlation between the accuracy of wall recognition and the density of the data, thus proposes the proper method for the raw point cloud data. The result of this study could improve the efficiency of the data processing phase in the reverse engineering for indoor point cloud data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.05a
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• pp.532-533
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• 2020

원격 및 가상환경에서 사용자의 동작에 따른 3D 모델을 제공하기 위해 light detection and range (LiDAR)로 측정된 3D point cloud로 사용자의 3D 모델이 생성되어 원격 및 가상환경에 사용자의 모습이 제공된다. 하지만 3D 모델을 생성하기 위해서는 사용자의 신체 전부가 측정된 3D point cloud가 필요하다. 사용자의 신체 전체를 측정하기 위해서는 적어도 두 개 이상의 LiDAR가 필요하다. 두 개 이상의 LiDAR을 사용할 경우에는 LiDAR을 사용할 공간과 LiDAR를 구비하기 위한 비용이 발생한다. 단일 LiDAR로 3D 모델을 생성하는 방법이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 단일 LiDAR에서 측정된 3D point cloud를 이용하여 3D 모델을 생성하는 방법이 제안된다. End-to-End 기반 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) 모델로 측정된 3D point cloud를 분석하여 사용자의 체형과 자세를 예측하도록 학습한다. 기본자세를 취하는 동안 수집된 3D point cloud로 기본이 되는 사용자의 3D 모델을 생성한다. 학습된 CNN 모델을 통하여 측정된 3D point cloud로 사용자의 자세를 예측하여 기본이 되는 3D 모델을 수정하여 3D 모델을 제공한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.576-578
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• 2020

최근 사용자에게 더욱 몰입감 있는 콘텐츠를 제공하기 위한 기술에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있으며 기존의 2D 콘텐츠와는 다른 새로운 방식인 3D 콘텐츠에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으며 그 중 가장 대표적인 것이 Point Cloud 영상이라고 할 수 있다. Point Cloud의 경우 수많은 3차원 좌표를 가진 점들로 구성되어 있으며 각 점들마다 Attribute 값을 이용하여 색상 등의 표현이 가능한 구조로 이루어져 있다. 이러한 특성 때문에 Point Cloud 데이터는 방대한 용량을 가지고 있으며 기존의 2D 방식과 데이터 구조가 상이하기 때문에 새로운 압축 표준이 요구되었다. 이에 미디어 표준화 단체인 MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group)에서는 MPEG-I(Immersive) 차세대 프로젝트 그룹을 이용하여 이러한 움직임에 대응하고 있다. MPEG-I의 part 5(Video-based Point Cloud Compression, V-PCC)에서는 객체를 대상으로 하여 기존의 비디오 코덱을 활용한 Point Cloud 압축 표준화를 진행중이다. V-PCC 데이터의 경우 기존의 2D 영상 데이터와 같이 전송을 통해 소비될 가능성이 아주 높기 때문에 이에 대한 고려가 필요하다. 현재 MPEG에서 표준화를 완료한 MMT(MPEG Media Transport)라는 전송 표준이 존재하기 때문에 이 기술을 활용 가능할 것으로 보인다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Point Cloud 데이터를 압축한 V-PCC 데이터를 전송 표준 방식인 MMT를 이용하여 전송하는 방안에 대하여 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.26 no.6_3
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• pp.1325-1332
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• 2023

Recently, much research is being conducted based on point cloud data for the growth of innovations such as construction automation in the transportation field and virtual national space. This data is often measured through remote control in terrain that is difficult for humans to access using devices such as UAVs and UGVs. Drones, one of the UAVs, are mainly used to acquire point cloud data, but photogrammetry using a vision camera, which takes a lot of time to create a point cloud map, is difficult to apply in construction sites where the terrain changes periodically and surveying is difficult. In this paper, we developed a point cloud mapping system by adopting non-repetitive scanning LiDAR and attempted to confirm improvements through field application. For accuracy analysis, a point cloud map was created through a 2 minute 40 second flight and about 30 seconds of software post-processing on a terrain measuring 144.5 × 138.8 m. As a result of comparing the actual measured distance for structures with an average of 4 m, an average error of 4.3 cm was recorded, confirming that the performance was within the error range applicable to the field.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.1452-1455
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• 2021

Recently, point clouds are generated by capturing real space in 3D, and it is actively applied and serviced for performances, exhibitions, education, and training. These point cloud data require post-correction work to be used in virtual environments due to errors caused by the capture environment with sensors and cameras. In this paper, we propose an enhancement technique for 3D point cloud data by applying generative adversarial network(GAN). Thus, we performed an approach to regenerate point clouds as an input of GAN. Through our method presented in this paper, point clouds with a lot of noise is configured in the same shape as the real object and environment, enabling precise interaction with the reconstructed content.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.73-79
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• 2021

Recently there are growing interests on the energy conservation and emission reduction. In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, the energy monitoring of structures is required to response the energy issues. In perspective of thermal monitoring, thermal images gains popularity for their rich visual information. With the rapid development of the drone platform, aerial thermal images acquired using drone can be used to monitor not only a part of structure, but wider coverage. In addition, the stereo photogrammetric process is expected to generate 3D point cloud with thermal information. However thermal images show very poor in resolution with narrow field of view that limit the use of drone-based thermal photogrammety. In the study, we aimed to generate 3D thermal point cloud using visible and thermal images. The visible images show high spatial resolution being able to generate precise and dense point clouds. Then we extract thermal information from thermal images to assign them onto the point clouds by precisely establishing photogrammetric collinearity between the point clouds and thermal images. From the experiment, we successfully generate dense 3D thermal point cloud showing 3D thermal distribution over the building structure.

• Journal of KIBIM
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.1-9
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• 2021

Comparing to general scanning data, the 3D digital map for large construction sites and complex buildings consists of millions of points. The large construction site needs to be scanned multiple times by drone photogrammetry or terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) survey. The scanned point cloud data are required to be registrated with high resolution and high point density. Unlike the registration of 2D data, the matrix of translation and rotation are used for registration of 3D point cloud data. Archiving high accuracy with 3D point cloud data is not easy due to 3D Cartesian coordinate system. Therefore, in this study, iterative closest point (ICP) registration method for improve accuracy of 3D digital map was employed by different overlap ratio on 3D digital maps. This study conducted the accuracy test using different overlap ratios of two digital maps from 10% to 100%. The results of the accuracy test presented the optimal overlap ratios for an ICP registration method on digital maps.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.709-722
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• 2020

Point Cloud which is a cluster of numerous points can express 3D object beyond the 2D plane. Each point contains 3D coordinate and color data basically, reflectance or etc. additionally. Point Cloud demand research and development much higher effective compression technology. Video-based Point Cloud Compression (V-PCC) technology in development and standardization based on the established video codec. Despite its high effective compression technology, point cloud service will be limited by terminal spec and network conditions. 2D video had the same problems. To remedy this kind of problem, 2D video is using Scalable High efficiency Video Coding (SHVC), Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) or diverse technology. This paper proposed a density scalability method using SHVC codec in V-PCC.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.928-935
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• 2013

In this paper, real-time polygon generation algorithm of 3D point cloud data and texture mapping for tele-operation is proposed. In a tele-operation, it is essential to provide more highly realistic visual information to a tele-operator. By using 3D point cloud data, the tele-operator can observe the working environment from various view point with a reconstructed 3D environment. However, there are huge empty space in 3D point cloud data, since there is no environmental information among the points. This empty space is not suitable for an environmental information. Therefore, real-time polygon generation algorithm of 3D point cloud data and texture mapping is presented to provide more highly realistic visual information to the tele-operator. The 3D environment reconstructed from the 3D point cloud data with texture mapped polygons is the crucial part of the tele-operation.