• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 B
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• pp.818-820
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• 1999

In this paper, a new boundary tracking algorithm for extracting finger area, which may be utilized by a finger crease pattern recognition algorithm, is proposed. Due to noise and irregular illumination, conventional algorithms for boundary tracking such as skeleton-based tracking methods were not suitable for typical boundary image of hand. So we propose a new finger boundary tracking algorithm utilizing a boundary-point-detection mask. We have observed that the proposed method provides stable and optimised boundary tracking.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1299-1306
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• 2017

This paper presents a boundary tracking control of an agent. To this end, it is shown that the boundary tracking problem can be reformulated into a robust control of uncertain double integrator first. Then, a disturbance observer (DOB) based control is proposed solving the robust control problem. Unlike the existing results in the literature, the proposed DOB based control requires only the local position measurement of the boundary (not the gradient information). The performance of the proposed control is demonstrated for two cases: the measurement of the boundary is given in a continuous or discrete manner. Finally, it is shown that the proposed control can be used for environmental monitoring as well by showing that the agent follows a level curve of real environmental monitoring data.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.2901-2919
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• 2012

Recent research in MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and wireless communication has enabled tracking of continuous objects, including fires, nuclear explosions and bio-chemical material diffusions. This paper proposes an energy-efficient scheme that detects and tracks different dynamic shapes of a continuous object (i.e., the inner and outer boundaries of a continuous object). EBCO (Efficient Boundary detection and tracking of Continuous Objects in WSNs) exploits the sensing capabilities of sensor nodes by automatically adjusting the sensing range to be either a boundary sensor node or not, instead of communicating to its neighboring sensor nodes because radio communication consumes more energy than adjusting the sensing range. The proposed scheme not only increases the tracking accuracy by choosing the bordering boundary sensor nodes on the phenomenon edge, but it also minimizes the power consumption by having little communication among sensor nodes. The simulation result shows that our proposed scheme minimizes the energy consumption and achieves more precise tracking results than existing approaches.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제9B권3호
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• pp.359-368
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 매칭 에러 영상과 이동벡터를 이용한 효율적인 이동물체 외곽선 검출 알고리즘과 부분외곽선 정보를 이용한 이동물체 고속 추적 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 이동물체의 외곽선 검출은 watershed 알고리즘을 기반으로 확률분포함수를 적용하여 seed 영역을 생성하고 seed 영역을 확장하여 이동물체의 윤곽선을 검출한 다음 이동벡터를 이용하여 최종 외곽선을 추출한다. 외곽선 중 일부를 특징으로 하여 이동물체를 추적하는 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 이동물체 초기 특징 벡터는 이동물체의 외곽선 영역 중 상하좌우의 외곽선 일부분을 특징벡터로 정한다. 다음은 추적단계로 이전 프레임에서 얻은 특징벡터를 이용하여 현재 프레임에서 이동물체의 추적을 수행하였다. 실제영상에 대하여 제안된 알고리즘으로 이동물체추적 모의 실험을 수행한 결과 기존 능동 윤곽선 추적알고리즘은 물체 외곽선 전체를 추적하기 때문에 물체의 외곽선 길이에 따라 처리시간이 변화하지만 제안된 알고리즘은 이동물체의 외곽선 영역을 특징정보로 하여 추적하기 때문에 추적 연산이 간단하였다. 고속이동벡터를 추출 BMA 연산은 기존 알고리즘 보다 연산량이 약 39% 감소였고, 이동 물체 외곽선 검출 알고리즘은 과분할 문제점이 발생하지 않았으며, 상하 좌우 외곽선 정보를 이용하여 이동물체를 추적한 결과 추적오차는 특징벡터의 크기가 $(15\times{5)}$일 때 검색오차가 4 화소 이하로 양호하게 나타났다.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제8B권5호
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• pp.539-548
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 배경과 구분되는 이동물체를 추적하기 위한 방법으로 부분 외곽선 정보를 이용한 이동물체 추적 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 이동물체의 추적은 이동물체의 외곽선을 검출한 다음 외곽선 정보를 이동물체의 특징으로 정하여 추적하는 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 먼저 이동물체 외곽선 정보를 이용하여 연속한 동영상 입력에 대하여 속 BMA(Block Matching Algorithm)을 이용하여 움직임 벡터를 추출하고 움직임 벡테를 기초로 이동물체를 추출한다. 다음은 이동물체 초기 특징 벡테 생성단계로서 이동물체에 대한 외곽선을 추출한다. 이동물체의 외곽선 영역 중 상하좌우의 외곽선 일부분을 특징벡터로 정한다. 다음은 추적단계로 이전 프레임에서 얻은 특징벡터를 이용하여 현재 프레임에서 이동물체의 추적을 수행하였다. 제안된 알고리즘에 대하여 실제영상을 가지고 이동물체추적 모의 실험을 수행한 결과 기존 능동 윤곽선 추적알고리즘은 물체 외곽선 전체를 추적하기 때문에 물체의 외곽선 길이에 따라 처리시간이 변화하지만 제안된 알고리즘은 이동물체의 외곽선 영역을 특징정보로 하여 추적하기 때문에 추적연산이 간단하였다. 제안된 이동물체 추적알고리즘 중 이동벡터를 추출하는 BMA 연산은 기존 알고리즘 보다 연산량이 약 39%감소였으며, 상하 좌우 외곽선 정보를 이용하여 이동물체를 추적한 결과 추적오차는 특징벡터의 크기가 [$10{\times}5$]일 때 검색오차가 2화소 이하로 양호하게 나타났다. 또한 기본 능동 윤ㅅ곽선 축적알고리즘은 물체 외곽선 크기에 따른 처리시간이 변화하지만 제안된 알고리즘은 특징벡터의 크기가 일정하기 때문에 동일한 처리시간이 필요하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.118-121
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• 2003

In the conventional boundary estimation in EIT (Electrical Impedance Tomography), the interface between anomalies and background is expressed in usual as Fourier series and the boundary is reconstructed by obtaining the Fourier coefficients. This paper proposes a method for the boundary estimation, where the boundary of anomaly is approximated as the interpolation of front points located discretely along the boundary and is imaged by tracking the points in the region of interest. In the solution to the inverse problem to estimate the front points, the multi-layer neural network is introduced. For the verification of the proposed method, numerical experiments are conducted and the results indicate a good performance.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

The behavior of the non-equilibrium grain boundary segregation of boron in low carbon steel was studied through a particle tracking autoradiography. The behavior of the non-equilibrium grain boundary segregation of boron during continuous cooling was compared with the isothermal kinetics of the non-equilibrium grain boundary segregation of boron at the holding temperature using an effective time method. On the basis of the experiments, the cooling rate dependence of the non-equilibrium segregation of boron was explained using the time dependence of the non-equilibrium segregation of boron in low carbon steel. The experimental observations for the cooling rate dependence of the grain boundary segregation of boron are in good agreement with the time dependence of the grain boundary segregation of boron. The mechanisms of the non-equilibrium segregation of boron during cooling in low carbon steel are also discussed.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권9호
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• pp.1628-1635
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• 2008

In this paper, the motion coordination algorithm of mobile agents in active sensor network is proposed to track the dynamic boundary for environmental monitoring. While most of dynamic boundary tracking algorithms in the literature were studied under the assumption that the boundary and/or its evolving rate is known a priori, the proposed algorithm is assumed that the individual active agent can measure the state of environment locally without any information of the boundary. When the boundary is evolving dynamically, the formation of active agents is designed to achieve two objectives. One is to track boundary layer based on the measured information and a small deviation. The other is to maintain a uniform distance between adjacent agents. The algorithm structure based on a state diagram is proposed to achieve these two objectives. Finally, it will be shown in the simulations that all given agents converge to a desired boundary layer and maintain a formation along the boundary. (e.g., a circle, an ellipse, a triangle and a rectangle)

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.423-428
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• 2013

This paper investigates a boundary tracking problem using multiple quadrotor UAVs to detect and track the boundary of physical events. We set the boundary estimation problem as a classification problem of the region in which the physical events occur, and employ SVL (Support Vector Learning). We also demonstrate a velocity vector field which is globally attractive to a desired closed path with circulation at the desired speed and a virtual phase for stabilizing the collective configuration of the multiple quadrotors. Experimental results with multiple quadrotors show that this study provides good performance of the collective boundary tracking.

• Journal of International Society for Simulation Surgery
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2015

Purpose In this paper, we propose a robust 3D vessel tracking algorithm by utilizing an active contour model and unscented Kalman filter which are the two representative algorithms on segmentation and tracking. Materials and Methods The proposed algorithm firstly accepts user input to produce an initial estimate of vessel boundary segmentation. On each Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) slice, the active contour is applied to segment the vessel boundary. After that, the estimation process of the unscented Kalman filter is applied to track the vessel boundary of the current slice to estimate the inter-slice vessel position translation and shape deformation. Finally both active contour and unscented Kalman filter are inter-operated for vessel segmentation of the next slice. Results The arbitrarily shaped blood vessel boundary on each slice is segmented by using the active contour model, and the Kalman filter is employed to track the translation and shape deformation between CTA slices. The proposed algorithm is applied to the 3D visualization of chest CTA images using graphics hardware. Conclusion Through this algorithm, more opportunities, giving quick and brief diagnosis, could be provided for the radiologist before detailed diagnosis using 2D CTA slices, Also, for the surgeon, the algorithm could be used for surgical planning, simulation, navigation and rehearsal, and is expected to be applied to highly valuable applications for more accurate 3D vessel tracking and rendering.