• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.291-294
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• 2002

A simple computer vision technology to measure the middle-ranged depth with mono camera and plain mirror is proposed The proposed system is structured wiか the rotating mirror in front of the fixed mono camera In contrast to the previous stereo vision system in which the disparity of the closer object is larger than that of the distant object, the pixel movement caused by the rotating mirror is bigger for the pixels of the distant object in the proposed system Being inspired by such feature in the proposed system the principle of the depth measurement based on the relation of the pixel movement and the distance of object have been investigated. Also, the factors to influence the precision of the measurement are analysed The benefits of the proposed system are low price and less chance of occlusion. The robustness for practical usage is an additional benefit of the proposed vision system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.34S no.3
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• pp.74-83
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• 1997

In this paper, a new stereo matching algorithm is proposed which uses th econstrainted optimization technique and the matching measures between the segments extracted from zero-crossing edges. The initial matching measures and average disparities are calculated by the features of segments on the searching window of the left and right images. The matching measure is calculated by applying an exponential function using the differences of slope, overlapped length and intensity. The coherency constraint is that neighbouring image points corresponding to the same object should have nearly the same disparities. The matching measures are iteratively updated by applying the coherency constraint. Simulation results on various images show that the proposed algorithm more acculately extracts the segment disparity.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.371-376
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• 2002

본 논문은 영역 분할에 기반한 스테레오 정합에 있어서, 분할영역 내부에 존재하는 단계적인 변위의 변화를 추정할 수 있는 스테레오 정합 알고리즘에 관한 것이다. 우선, 분할영역을 효과적으로 표현할 수 있는 복수의 샘플점들을 선정한 다음에 각 샘플점 주위에 인접한 영역 내부의 미소영역을 취하여 스테레오 정함을 수행한다. 이후, 획득된 각 샘플점들의 변위를 이용하여 평면의 방정식을 통해 내부 변위를 보간함으로써 연산 시간을 감축함과 동시에 영역 내부의 단계적인 변위의 변화를 추정할 순 있다. 제안된 방법에 따르면, 분할된 영역을 사용함으로써 분할영역 자체가 구속 조건이 되어 특징 기반 기법들의 단점인 변위 보간의 문제점을 해결할 수 있다. 특히, 복수의 샘플점들 간의 변위차를 이용함으로써 영상 평면에 대해 깊이 방향으로 기울어진 영역 평면에 대한 변위의 기울기를 보간할 수 있음에 기인하여 조밀한 변위 맵을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1416-1417
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• 2013

깊이 정보를 획득하기 위해서 가장 많이 시도되는 방법이 스테레오 정합이다. 스테레오 정합 알고리즘은 다양한 알고리즘의 조합으로 구성되며, 파라메터 또한 다양하다. 일반적으로는 middlebury에서 제공하는 영상과 ground truth를 이용해서 스테레오 정합 알고리즘을 연구하고, 파라메터 최적화 과정을 거친다. 실제 시스템에 알고리즘 및 파라메터를 적용할 때 middlebury 영상으로 선택된 알고리즘과 파라메터가 상이할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 실제 시스템의 스테레오 카메라를 이용해서 ground truth를 만들 수 있는 방법을 제안하다. 프로젝트를 이용해서 패턴을 투사하고, 스테레오 카메라로 영상을 획득한다. 한 장면에 대해서 다양한 영상으로 스테레오 정합을 수행하여 만들어진 disparity map은 높은 정확성을 가지고 있음으로, 스테레오 정합 알고리즘 검증용 ground truth로 사용이 가능하다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.411-421
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• 2012

The stagnant growth in 3D market due to 3D movie contents shortage is encouraging development of techniques for production cost reduction. Elimination of vertical disparity generated during image acquisition requires heaviest time and effort in the whole stereoscopic film-making process. This matter is directly related to competitiveness in the market and is being dealt with as a very important task. The removal of vertical disparity, i.e. image rectification has been treated for a long time in the photogrammetry field. While computer vision methods are focused on fast processing and automation, photogrammetry methods on accuracy and precision. However, photogrammetric approaches have not been tried for the 3D film-making. In this paper, proposed is a photogrammetry-based rectification algorithm that enable to eliminate the vertical disparity precisely by reconstruction of geometric relationship at the time of shooting. Evaluation of proposed algorithm was carried out by comparing the performance with two existing computer vision algorithms. The epipolar constraint satisfaction, epipolar line accuracy and vertical disparity of result images were tested. As a result, the proposed algorithm showed excellent performance than the other algorithms in term of accuracy and precision, and also revealed robustness about position error of tie-points.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.1908-1918
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• 2013

Free-view, auto-stereoscopic video service is a next generation broadcasting system which offers a three-dimensional video, images of the various point are needed. This paper proposes a method that parallelizes the algorithm for arbitrary intermediate view-point image fast generation and make it faster using General Propose Graphic Processing Unit(GPGPU) with help of the Compute Unified Device Architecture(CUDA). It uses a parallelized stereo-matching method between the leftmost and the rightmost depth images to obtain disparity information and It use data calculated disparity increment per depth value. The disparity increment is used to find the location in the intermediate view-point image for each depth in the given images. Then, It is eliminate to disocclusions complement each other and remaining holes are filled image using hole-filling method and to get the final intermediate view-point image. The proposed method was implemented and applied to several test sequences. The results revealed that the quality of the generated intermediate view-point image corresponds to 30.47dB of PSNR in average and it takes about 38 frames per second to generate a Full HD intermediate view-point image.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.3 s.309
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• pp.30-38
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• 2006

In this paper, we improved to drops recognition rate according to distance using distance and depth information with 3D from stereo face images. A monocular face image has problem to drops recognition rate by uncertainty information such as distance of an object, size, moving, rotation, and depth. Also, if image information was not acquired such as rotation, illumination, and pose change for recognition, it has a very many fault. So, we wish to solve such problem. Proposed method consists of an eyes detection algorithm, analysis a pose of face, md principal component analysis (PCA). We also convert the YCbCr space from the RGB for detect with fast face in a limited region. We create multi-layered relative intensity map in face candidate region and decide whether it is face from facial geometry. It can acquire the depth information of distance, eyes, and mouth in stereo face images. Proposed method detects face according to scale, moving, and rotation by using distance and depth. We train by using PCA the detected left face and estimated direction difference. Simulation results with face recognition rate of 95.83% (100cm) in the front and 98.3% with the pose change were obtained successfully. Therefore, proposed method can be used to obtain high recognition rate with an appropriate scaling and pose change according to the distance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.2251-2259
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• 2009

We propose an algorithm and system which generates 3D stereo image by composition of 2D image from 4 multiple clusters which 1 cluster was composed of 4 multiple cameras based on network. Proposed Schemes have a network-based client-server architecture for load balancing of system caused to process a large amounts of data with real-time as well as multiple cluster environments. In addition, we make use of JPEG compression and RAM disk method for better performance. Our scheme first converts input images from 4 channel, 16 cameras to binary image. And then we generate 3D stereo images after applying edge detection algorithm such as Sobel algorithm and Prewiit algorithm used to get disparities from images of 16 multiple cameras. With respect of performance results, the proposed scheme takes about 0.05 sec. to transfer image from client to server as well as 0.84 to generate 3D stereo images after composing 2D images from 16 multiple cameras. We finally confirm that our scheme is efficient to generate 3D stereo images in multiple view and multiple clusters environments with real-time.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.205-214
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• 2014

Minimization of visual fatigue is important for production of high quality stereoscopic 3D contents. Vertical disparity of stereo images occurred during contents production is considered as the main factor of visual fatigue. To ensure correct stereoscopy vertical disparity needs to be eliminated. In this paper, a method for automated image alignment was proposed for Stereoscopic 3D contents generation and post-processing steps. The proposed method consists of two parts: rectification for image alignment and camera motion detection. The proposed method showed that its rectification performance was the most superior among the existing methods tested and that camera motion detection had a success rate of 98.35%. Through these evaluations, we confirmed that the proposed method can be effectively applied to 3D contents production.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.9
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• pp.45-53
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• 2015

Adaptive support-weight based algorithm can produce better disparity map compared to generic area-based algorithms and also can be implemented as a realtime system. In this paper, we propose a realtime system based on geodesic support-weight which performs better segmentation of objects in the window. The data scheduling is analyzed for efficient hardware design and better performance and the parallel architecture for weight update which takes the longest delay is proposed. The exponential function is efficiently designed using a simple step function by careful error analysis. The proposed architecture is designed with verilogHDL and synthesized using Donbu Hitek 0.18um standard cell library. The proposed system shows 2.22% of error rate and can run up to 260Mhz (25fps) operation frequency with 182K gates.