• 전자공학회논문지S
• /
• 제34S권9호
• /
• pp.67-76
• /
• 1997

This ppaer describes the development of the stereo camera system(KASS-1) and the control of the vergence of the stereo camera to fix a gaze on a moving object in real-time using a stereo disparity. The motion energy and the stereo disparity of a moving object from the stereo image are used to control the vergence of stereo camera to keep stereo disparity constant. The disparity from the rotating stereo camera is introduced not only from the moving object but also from the background. In this paper, the background disparity error due to the vergence control of the stereo camera is eliminated by compensation algoithm, and the vergence of steereo camera system can be controlled continuously using the disparity of a moving object only.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
• /
• 제9권1호
• /
• pp.83-88
• /
• 2011

Abstract. Image segmentation is always a challenging task in computer vision as well as in pattern recognition. Nowadays, this method has great importance in the field of stereo vision. The disparity information extracting from the binocular image pairs has essential relevance in the fields like Stereoscopic (3D) Imaging Systems, Virtual Reality and 3D Graphics. The term 'disparity' represents the horizontal shift between left camera image and right camera image. Till now, many methods are proposed to visualize or estimate the disparity. In this paper, we present a new technique to visualize the horizontal disparity between two stereo images based on image segmentation method. The process of comparing left camera image with right camera image is popularly known as 'Stereo-Matching'. This method is used in the field of stereo vision for many years and it has large contribution in generating depth and disparity maps. Correlation based stereo-matching are used most of the times to visualize the disparity. Although, for few stereo image pairs it is easy to estimate the horizontal disparity but in case of some other stereo images it becomes quite difficult to distinguish the disparity. Therefore, in order to visualize the horizontal disparity between any stereo image pairs in more robust way, a novel stereo-matching algorithm is proposed which is named as "Quadtree Segmentation of Pixels Disparity Estimation (QSPDE)".

• 한국통신학회논문지
• /
• 제34권3C호
• /
• pp.279-287
• /
• 2009

본 논문에서는 컬러 정보를 이용한 계층적 스테레오 정합 기법을 제안한다. 특징기반의 스테레오 정합 방법을 이용하여 초기 변이지도를 생성하고, 계층적 스테레오 정합 기법으로 최종 변이지도를 획득한다. 영상을 R, G, B, white 4개의 색상 성분으로 분할하여 영상의 경계(edge)를 추출하고, 추출된 경계에서 정합 창을 이용하여 변이(disparity)를 추정한다. 추정된 변이는 각 색상 성분에서 자기상관도(autocorrelation)에 따라 주변 영역으로 확산되어 초기 변이지도(disparity map)를 생성한다. 초기 변이지도는 최종 변이지도를 생성하기 위한 변이 탐색의 초기값으로 사용되고, 각 색상 성분에서 정합 창과 탐색 범위(search range)의 변화를 이용하여 최종 변이 지도를 생성시킨다. 본 논문에서는 Middlebury stereo vision의 4개의 실험 영상을 가지고 객관적 성능 평가를 하였다. 실험 결과 제안한 기법이 기존의 Graph-cuts와 Dynamic Programming 기법보다 우수한 성능을 보였다. 최종 변이지도의 부정확한 변이는 전체 영상에서 평균11% 존재했고, 변이지도에서 불연속점의 경계가 뚜렷한 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Information Display
• /
• 제6권4호
• /
• pp.16-25
• /
• 2005

In this paper, a new 3D object tracking system using the disparity motion vector (DMV) is presented. In the proposed method, the time-sequential disparity maps are extracted from the sequence of the stereo input image pairs and these disparity maps are used to sequentially estimate the DMV defined as a disparity difference between two consecutive disparity maps Similarly to motion vectors in the conventional video signals, the DMV provides us with motion information of a moving target by showing a relatively large change in the disparity values in the target areas. Accordingly, this DMV helps detect the target area and its location coordinates. Based on these location data of a moving target, the pan/tilt embedded in the stereo camera system can be controlled and consequently achieve real-time stereo tracking of a moving target. From the results of experiments with 9 frames of the stereo image pairs having 256x256 pixels, it is shown that the proposed DMV-based stereo object tracking system can track the moving target with a relatively low error ratio of about 3.05 % on average.

• 로봇학회논문지
• /
• 제4권4호
• /
• pp.298-304
• /
• 2009

This paper describes an algorithm that improves 3D reconstruction result using a multi-sensor fusion disparity map. We can project LRF (Laser Range Finder) 3D points onto image pixel coordinatesusing extrinsic calibration matrixes of a camera-LRF (${\Phi}$, ${\Delta}$) and a camera calibration matrix (K). The LRF disparity map can be generated by interpolating projected LRF points. In the stereo reconstruction, we can compensate invalid points caused by repeated pattern and textureless region using the LRF disparity map. The result disparity map of compensation process is the multi-sensor fusion disparity map. We can refine the multi-sensor 3D reconstruction based on stereo vision and LRF using the multi-sensor fusion disparity map. The refinement algorithm of multi-sensor based 3D reconstruction is specified in four subsections dealing with virtual LRF stereo image generation, LRF disparity map generation, multi-sensor fusion disparity map generation, and 3D reconstruction process. It has been tested by synchronized stereo image pair and LRF 3D scan data.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
• /
• 제4권1호
• /
• pp.25-31
• /
• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new method that separates background and foreground from stereo images. This method can be improved automatic target tracking system by using disparity map of the stereo vision system and background-separating mask, which can be obtained camera configuration parameters. We use disparity map and camera configuration parameters to separate object from background. Disparity map is made with block matching algorithm from stereo images. A morphology filter is used to compensate disparity error that can be caused by occlusion area. We could obtain a separated object from background when the proposed method was applied to real stereo cameras system.

• 한국정밀공학회지
• /
• 제12권8호
• /
• pp.156-167
• /
• 1995

In this paper, we propose a 3-D range finding method for situation that stereo camera has small translational motion. Binocular stereo generally tends to produce stereo correspondence errors and needs huge amount of computation. The former drawback is because the additional constraints to regularize the correspondence problem are not always true for every scene. The latter drawback is because they use either correlation or optimization to find correct disparity. We present a method which overcomes these drawbacks by moving the stereo camera actively. The method utilized a motion parallax acquired by monocular motion stereo to restrict the search range of binocular disparity. Using only the uniqueness of disparity makes it possible to find reliable binocular disparity. Experimental results with real scene are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
• /
• 제17권10호
• /
• pp.1411-1422
• /
• 2003

The detection of free spaces between obstacles in a scene is a prerequisite for navigation of a mobile robot. Especially for stereo vision-based navigation, the problem of correspondence between two images is well known to be of crucial importance. This paper describes multi-range approach of area-based stereo matching for grid mapping and visual navigation in uncertain environment. Camera calibration parameters are optimized by evolutionary algorithm for successful stereo matching. To obtain reliable disparity information from both images, stereo images are to be decomposed into three pairs of images with different resolution based on measurement of disparities. The advantage of multi-range approach is that we can get more reliable disparity in each defined range because disparities from high resolution image are used for farther object a while disparities from low resolution images are used for close objects. The reliable disparity map is combined through post-processing for rejecting incorrect disparity information from each disparity map. The real distance from a disparity image is converted into an occupancy grid representation of a mobile robot. We have investigated the possibility of multi-range approach for the detection of obstacles and visual mapping through various experiments.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국정보통신학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
• /
• pp.93-96
• /
• 2015

Disparity Map 예측의 목적은 유사한 두개 또는 그 이상의 이미지들에서 서로 대응하는 픽셀을 찾는 데 있다. 하지만 실제 환경에서 정확하고 일정한 Disparity를 획득하는 것은 어려운 문제이다. 즉, 스테레오 이미지의 Intensity 정보는 조명 방향, 조명 색상, 카메라 노출과 같은 Radiometric 특성에 쉽게 영향을 받을 수 있다. 따라서 기존의 일반적인 Disparity Map 예측 방법은 Radiometric 조건에서 좋은 결과를 얻기 힘들다. 본 논문에서는 실제 환경에 근접한 Radiometric 변화에서 신뢰성을 가지는 Disparity Map 예측 방법을 제안한다. 스테레오 이미지에서 하나의 이미지가 다른 Radiometric 특성을 가지더라도 객체의 일정 블록 구간 내 픽셀의 Intensity가 일정성(Constancy)를 가진다는 것에 착안한다. 실험결과, 제안하는 방법이 Radiometric 조건에서 검증적인 대조군보다 정확한 Disparity Map을 보여준다. 결과적으로, 본 기술은 Radiometric 조건의 변화에서 안정적으로 Disparity Map을 예측한다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
• /
• pp.99-102
• /
• 2009

In this paper a hierarchical stereo matching algorithm based on feature extraction is proposed. The boundary (edge) as feature point in an image is first obtained by segmenting an image into red, green, blue and white regions. With the obtained boundary information, disparities are extracted by matching window on the image boundary, and the initial disparity map is generated when assigned the same disparity to neighbor pixels. The final disparity map is created with the initial disparity. The regions with the same initial disparity are classified into the regions with the same color and we search the disparity again in each region with the same color by changing block size and search range. The experiment results are evaluated on the Middlebury data set and it show that the proposed algorithm performed better than a phase based algorithm in the sense that only about 14% of the disparities for the entire image are inaccurate in the final disparity map. Furthermore, it was verified that the boundary of each region with the same disparity was clearly distinguished.