• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.1069-1076
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• 2016

최근 비쥬얼 센서 기술의 발달로 센서 네트워크에 영상을 추가하기 위한 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 비쥬얼 센서는 다른 센서 정보에 비해 데이터가 크기 때문에 데이터의 크기를 효율적으로 관리하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 효과적인 데이터 관리에 필요한 비디오 트래픽 예측 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 비디오 센서에서 획득되는 영상의 특성을 반영하여 1차 AR 모델로 비디오 트래픽을 모델링하고 칼만필터 알고리즘을 적용하여 트래픽을 예측한다. 제안하는 방법은 계산량이 많지 않아 센서 노드에 적용되기 적합하다. 실험 결과는 제안하는 방법이 비교적 간단한 형태이지만 전체 평균 트래픽의 1% 이내로 오차로 정확하게 트래픽을 예측하는 것을 보여준다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.837-856
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• 2016

Underwater image enhancement has received considerable attention in last decades, due to the nature of poor visibility and low contrast of underwater images. In this paper, we propose a new automatic underwater image enhancement algorithm, which combines nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain enhancement techniques with the mechanism of the human visual system (HVS). We apply the multiscale retinex algorithm based on the HVS into NSCT domain in order to eliminate the non-uniform illumination, and adopt the threshold denoising technique to suppress underwater noise. Our proposed algorithm incorporates the luminance masking and contrast masking characteristics of the HVS into NSCT domain to yield the new HVS-based NSCT. Moreover, we define two nonlinear mapping functions. The first one is used to manipulate the HVS-based NSCT contrast coefficients to enhance the edges. The second one is a gain function which modifies the lowpass subband coefficients to adjust the global dynamic range. As a result, our algorithm can achieve contrast enhancement, image denoising and edge sharpening automatically and simultaneously. Experimental results illustrate that our proposed algorithm has better enhancement performance than state-of-the-art algorithms both in subjective evaluation and quantitative assessment. In addition, our algorithm can automatically achieve underwater image enhancement without any parameter tuning.

• 한국정보기술학회 영문논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2018

Due to global warming, various natural disasters such as floods and droughts are increasing. If we can detect the possibility of natural disasters in advance, we can prevent massive damages caused by natural disasters. Recent advances in visual sensor technologies have enabled remote monitoring of a variety of natural environments, including lakes, rivers, and shores. In this paper, we propose a method to segment an image obtained from video sensor networks into regions in order to monitor the environment effectively. In the proposed method, we first partition the image into superpixels and model the connections between superpixels as a graph. Then, initial seeds for each region are set by using the prior information, and the initial seeds are expanded to form regions using agglomerative clustering. Experimental results show that the proposed method extracts the regions from natural environment images easily and accurately.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.261-267
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 센서 네트워크를 위한 Radical line을 기반으로 한 센서 노드간의 Range-free 지역화 알고리즘에 대해 연구한다. 무선 센서 네트워크에서 라우팅 기법은 센서 네트워크의 전체적인 에너지 소모량을 감소시키거나 모든 센서 노드들의 균등한 에너지 소비를 유도해야 한다. 특히 데이터가 전송할 데이터의 양이 많아지면 에너지 소모가 심해지는데 이를 극복하기 위한 새로운 방식들이 제안되었다. 그 결과 전체적인 에너지 소모량을 균등하게 조절할 수 있게 되었다. 이를 위해 논문에서도 적은 연산으로 주변 노드의 위치정보를 획득할 수 있는 지역화 알고리즘을 설계한다. 알고리즘의 연산을 위해 Radical Line을 적용한다. 실험환경은 운영체제는 윈도우 7, 플랫폼은 Visual C++ 2010으로 실험하였다. 실험결과 0.1837의 에러율로 지역화를 수행할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2015

Recent years have seen a significant increase in demand for multimedia data over wireless sensor networks for monitoring applications that utilize sensor nodes to collect multimedia data, including sound and video. However, the multimedia streams generate a very large amount of data. When data transmission schemes for traditional wireless sensor networks are applied in wireless multimedia sensor networks, the network lifetime significantly decreases due to the excessive energy consumption of specific nodes. In this paper, we propose a data compression scheme that implements the Chinese remainder theorem to a wireless multimedia sensor network. The proposed scheme uses the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) to compress and split multimedia data, and it then transmits the bit-pattern packets of the remainder to the base station. As a result, the amount of multimedia data that is transmitted is reduced. The superiority of our proposed scheme is demonstrated by comparing its performance to that of an existing scheme. The results of our experiment indicate that our proposed scheme significantly increased the compression ratio and reduced the compression operation in comparison to those of existing compression schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.3357-3376
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• 2015

Wireless sensor network is an important research topic that has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. However, most of the interest has focused on wireless sensor network to gather scalar data such as temperature, humidity and vibration. Scalar data are insufficient for diverse applications such as video surveillance, target recognition and traffic monitoring. However, if we use camera sensors in wireless sensor network to collect video data which are vast in information, they can provide important visual information. Video sensor networks continue to gain interest due to their ability to collect video information for a wide range of applications in the past few years. However, how to efficiently store the massive data that reflect environmental state of different times in video sensor network and how to quickly search interested information from them are challenging issues in current research, especially when the sensor network environment is complicated. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a fast algorithm for extracting key frames from video and describe the design and implementation of key frame extraction and sharing in Android for wireless video sensor network.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.13-26
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• 2009

유비쿼터스 사회에서 u-서비스를 구현하기 위한 핵심기술 중의 하나인 무선센서네트워크는 대규모망에서 관리가 어렵고 안정성 및 이동성이 취약하다는 단점을 가진다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 최근 센서네트워크와 IP망과의 연동을 위한 6LoWPAN에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행 중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 6LoWPAN을 이용한 위치 추적 시스템 LTSGM(Location Tracking Service Based on Google Map)을 제안한다. LTSGM 시스템은 IP 인프라 서비스인 구글맵과 연동하여 센서노드의 위치를 시각적으로 제공함으로써 대규모 센서네트워크에서의 유지, 보수, 관리를 보다 용이하게 한다. 또한 모바일노드의 위치를 추적할 수 있으므로 향후 각종 재난, 범죄 등의 응용서비스에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다. 본 논문에서 구현한 LTSGM 시스템은 향후 6LoWPAN연구를 위한 시험적인 플랫폼이 될 수 있을 것이다.

• 대기
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.153-160
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• 2010

In this paper, an attempt has been made to build and test self-configuring weather sensor networks and internet based observation system to gather atmospheric data. The aim is to provide integrated or real-time weather information in standard form using network data access protocol. This system was successfully developed to record weather information both digital as well as visual using sensor network and web-enabled surveillance cameras. These data were transformed by network based data access protocol to access and utilize for public domain. The competed system has been successfully utilized to monitor different types of weather. The results show that this is one of the most useful weather monitoring system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.550-557
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• 1999

This paper describes a road-following controller using the proposed neural network for autonomous vehicle. Road-following with visual sensor like camera requires intelligent control algorithm because analysis of relation from road image to steering control is complex. The proposed neural network, relative similarity modular network(RSMN), is composed of some learning networks and a partitioniing network. The partitioning network divides input space into multiple sections by similarity of input data. Because divided section has simlar input patterns, RSMN can learn nonlinear relation such as road-following with visual control easily. Visual control uses two criteria on road image from camera; one is position of vanishing point of road, the other is slope of vanishing line of road. The controller using neural network has input of two criteria and output of steering angle. To confirm performance of the proposed neural network controller, a software is developed to simulate vehicle dynamics, camera image generation, visual control, and road-following. Also, prototype autonomous electric vehicle is developed, and usefulness of the controller is verified by physical driving test.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.2948-2963
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• 2015

In the field of computer vision, visual surveillance systems have recently become an important research topic. Growth in this area is being driven by both the increase in the availability of inexpensive computing devices and image sensors as well as the general inefficiency of manual surveillance and monitoring. In particular, the ultimate goal for many visual surveillance systems is to provide automatic activity recognition for events at a given site. A higher level of understanding of these activities requires certain lower-level computer vision tasks to be performed. So in this paper, we propose an intelligent activity recognition model that uses a structure learning method and a classification method. The structure learning method is provided as a K2-learning algorithm that generates Bayesian networks of causal relationships between sensors for a given activity. The statistical characteristics of the sensor values and the topological characteristics of the generated graphs are learned for each activity, and then a neural network is designed to classify the current activity according to the features extracted from the multiple sensor values that have been collected. Finally, the proposed method is implemented and tested by using PETS2013 benchmark data.