• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.592-595
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• 2001

원거리에서 무접촉 거리 계측(ranging)은 군용 장비나 건설, 항해, 자동화 등에 매우 중요하다. 계측방식은 active와 passive 방식으로 구분되는데, active방식은 laser나 microwave, 초음파 등의 time of flight를 이용하거나 레이저 조사(illumination)에 대한 카메라 영상을 해석하는 등의 다양한 방식이 있으나 장치가 복잡하고, passive 방식은 stereo camera의 양안 영상을 이용하거나 focus 특성을 이용하는 방식 등이 있으나 대부분 연산 시간이 많이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 수동식 스테레오 카메라에서 양안시차를 추출하여 triangulation으로 목표점(target point)의 거리를 측정하는 것을 기본 방식으로 하여, 기존 거리 산출 방식에서 연산 시간이 많이 소요되는 연산 과정을 효율적이고 고속으로 수행할 수 있도록 새로운 방식을 제안하였다. 즉, 목표점에서의 양안 edge 영상을 구하며, 이 영상의 accumulation profile을 correlation하여, 거리 연산의 핵심 요소인 양안 시차를 고속으로 추출하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 또한, 제안 방식의 효율성을 실험 결과를 통하여 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.22-31
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new approach for efficient multiview stereo matching and virtual view generation, which are key technologies for 3DTV. We propose semi N-view & N-depth framework to estimate disparity maps efficiently and correctly. This framework reduces the redundancy on disparity estimation by using the information of neighboring views. The proposed method provides a user 2D/3D freeview video, and the user can select 2D/3D modes of freeview video. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields the accurate disparity maps and the synthesized novel view is satisfactory enough to provide user seamless freeview videos.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.1583-1590
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• 2011

As the existing radiation scanning systems use 2-dimensional radiation scanned images, the low accuracy has been pointed out as a problem of it. This research analyzes the applicability of the stereo image processing technique to X-ray scanned images. Two 2-dimensional radiation images which have different disparity values are acquired from a newly designed stereo image acquisition system which has one additional line sensor to the conventional system. Using a matching algorithm the 3D reconstruction process which find the correspondence between the images is progressed. As the radiation image is just a density information of the scanned object, the direct application of the general stereo image processing techniques to it is inefficient. To overcome this limitation of a stereo image processing in radiation area, we reconstruct 3-D shapes of the edges of the objects. Also, we proposed a new volume based 3D reconstruction algorithm. Experimental results show the proposed new volume based reconstruction technique can provide more efficient visualization for cargo inspection. The proposed technique can be used for such objects which CT or MRI cannot inspect due to restricted scan environment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.4C
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• pp.253-261
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose an efficient block-based disparity estimation algorithm fur multiple view image coding in EE2 and EE3 in 3DAV. The proposed method emphasizes on visual quality improvement to satisfy the requirements for multiple view generation. Therefore, we perform an adaptive disparity estimation that constructs variable blocks by considering given image features. Examining neighboring features around desired block search range is set up to decrease complexity and additional information than only using quad-tree coding through applying binary-tree and quad-tree coding by taking into account stereo image feature having big disparity. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves PSNR about 1 to 2dB compared to existing other methods and decreases computational complexity up to maximum 68 percentages than FBMA.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.6A
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• pp.610-617
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• 2002

In this paper, a new intermediate view reconstruction technique by using a disparity estimation method based-on the adaptive matching window size is proposed. In the proposed method, once the feature values are extracted from the input stereo image, then the matching window size for the intermediate view reconstruction is adaptively selected in accordance with the magnitude of this feature values. That is, coarse matching is performed in the region having smaller feature values while accurate matching is carried out in the region having larger feature values by comparing with the predetermined threshold value. Accordingly, this new approach is not only able to reduce the mismatching probability of the disparity vector mostly happened in the accurate disparity estimation with a small matching window size, but is also able to reduce the blocking effect occurred in the disparity estimation with a large matching window size. Some experimental results on the 'Parts' and 'Piano' images show that the proposed method improves the PSNR about 2.32∼4.16dB and reduces the execution time to about 39.34∼65.58% than those of the conventional matching methods.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.12
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• pp.84-92
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose the novel cost functions for finding the disparity between the left and the right images in the stereo matching problem. The dynamic programming method is used in solving the stereo matching problem by Cox et al[10]. In the reference[10], only the intensity of the pixels in the epipolar line is used as the cost functions to find the corresponding pixels. We propose the two new cost functions. The information of the slope of the pixel is introduced to the constraints in determining the weights of intensity and direction(the historical information). The pixels with the higher slope are matched mainly by the intensity of pixels. As the slope becomes lower, the matching is performed mainly by the direction. Secondly, the disparity information of the previous epipolar line the pixel is used to find the disparity of the current epipolar line. If the pixel in the left epipolar line, $p-i$ and the pixel in the right epipolar line, $p-j$ satisfy the following conditions, the higher matching probability is given to the pixels, $p-i$ and $p-j$. i) The pixels, $p-i$ and $p-j$ are the pixles on the edges in the left and the right images, respectively. ⅱ) For the pixels $p-k$ and $p-l$ in the previous epipolar line, $p-k$and $p-l$ are matched and are the pixels on the same edge with $p-i$ and $p-j$, respectively. The proposed method compared with the original method[10] finds the better matching results for the test images.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.2
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• pp.126-136
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• 1998

One of the central problems in sereo matching is the selectionof the optimal window sizes for comparing image regions. The window size must be large enough to include enough variation for reliable matching, but small enough to avoid the effect of projection distortion. This paper discusses these problems with some novel algorithm based on iterativediffusion process at different disparity hypotheses. Also this paper proposes four kinds of diffusion algorithms to preseve discontinuity in stereo matching. We present and discuss extensive empirical results of algorithms based on various sets of synthetic and real image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.164-167
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• 2007

스테레오 정합을 하기 위해서 먼저 두 이미지의 자기를 정규화 하였고, 밝기가 정규화 된 영상을 이용하여 Canny방식으로 Edge를 검출한 후 에지 적응형 스테레오 정합 방식으로 두 영상을 정합하여 변이도 영상들을 얻었다. 그 중 Canny Edge 방식이 다른 Edge 검출 방식보다 선명한 영상을 추출했다. Canny Edge 방식으로 획득한 스테레오영상을 중위수 필터를 사용하여 잡음을 제거한 후, 필터링 전 후의 영상을 PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio)로 비교하여 본 결과 개선된 영상을 획득 하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.369-371
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• 2009

휴머노이드 로봇에서 스스로 환경을 인식하는 기술은 필수적으로 필요하다. 그러나 정확하게 환경을 인식하기 위해서는 휴머노이드 움직임을 추정하여 보정해야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 type-2 퍼지셋을 이용하여 휴머노이드 로봇의 움직임을 스테레오 비전기반으로 추정하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 우선 스테레오 비전으로 얻은 Disparity Map을 Type-2 퍼지셋을 이용하여 추적할 대상을 추출한다. 추출된 대상은 보다 정확한 계산을 위하여 Wavelet Transform을 이용하여 정보량을 확장하였으며, 그 결과로 얻어진 결과영상들은 다시 Least suqare approximation과 Type-2 퍼지셋을 이용하여 하나의 결과값으로 나타내어진다. 연속된 두 이미지의 움직임을 추정함으로써 로봇의 움직임을 추정하게 된다. 제안된 방법은 실험을 통하여 그 추정 정확도나 연산속도 면에서 효율적임을 알 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2016

Keeping a system in stable state is one of the important issues of control theory. The main goal of our basic research is stability of unmanned aerial vehicle (quadrotor). This type of system uses a variety of sensors to stabilize. In control theory and automatic control system to stabilize any system it is need to apply feedback control based on information from sensors. Our aim is to provide balance based on the 3D spatial information in real time. We used PID control method for stabilization of a seesaw balancing system and the article presents our experimental results. This paper presents the possibility of balancing of seesaw system based on feedback information from stereo vision system only.