• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.62-70
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• 1994

In order to estimate the detection range of a active SONAR system, the SONAR equation is commonly used. In this paper, an algorithm to calculate detection range in active SONAR system as function of SONAR depth and target depth is presented. For given SONAR parameters and environment, the transmission loss and background level are found, signal excess is computed. Using log-normal distribution, signal excess is converted to detection probability at each range. Then, the detection range is obtained by integrating the detection probability as function of range for each depth. The proposed algorithm have been applied to the case of omni-directional source with center frequency 30Hz for summer and winter sound profiles. It is found that the optimal search depth is the source depth since the detection range increase at source depth where the signal excess is maximized.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.395-403
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• 2017

Image processing for object detection and identification has been studied for supply chain management application with various approaches. Among them, feature pointed detection algorithm is used to track an object or to recognize a position in automated supply chain systems and a depth image based feature point detection is recently highlighted in the application. The result of feature point detection is easily influenced by image noise. Also, the depth image has noise itself and it also affects to the accuracy of the detection results. In order to solve these problems, we propose a novel hybrid filtering mechanism for depth image based feature point detection, it shows better performance compared with conventional hybrid filtering mechanism.

• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.191-197
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• 2016

Since 3D measurement technologies have been widely used in manufacturing industries edge detection in a depth image plays an important role in computer vision applications. In this paper, we have proposed an edge detection process in a depth image based on the image based smoothing and morphological operations. In this method we have used the principle of Median filtering, which has a renowned feature for edge preservation properties. The edge detection was done based on Canny Edge detection principle and was improvised with morphological operations, which are represented as combinations of erosion and dilation. Later, we compared our results with some existing methods and exhibited that this method produced better results. However, this method works in multiframe applications with effective framerates. Thus this technique will aid to detect edges robustly from depth images and contribute to promote applications in depth images such as object detection, object segmentation, etc.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2006

This paper discusses a method for precise depth detection in stereoscopic images. The geometry of a stereoscopic camera and a display system is presented. It was found that there exists a difference between the calculated depth and the perceived depth of objects. For precise depth detection, the proposed registration method is investigated and proved by experiment in stable condition.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제65권1호
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• pp.66-71
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• 2016

According to the development of depth sensing devices and depth estimation technology, depth information becomes more important for object detection in computer vision. In terms of recognition rate, pedestrian detection methods have been improved more accurately. However, the methods makes slower detection time. So, many researches have overcome this problem by using GPU. Here, we propose a real-time pedestrian detection algorithm that does not rely on GPU. First, the depth-weighted distance map is used for detecting expected human regions. Next, human detection is performed on the regions. The performance for the proposed approach is evaluated and compared with the previous methods. We show that proposed method can detect human about 7 times faster than conventional ones.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2017

얼굴 검출은 복잡한 배경 내에서 다양한 얼굴의 자세로 인해 여전히 어려운 문제에 직면하고 있다. 본 논문은 피부색과 깊이 정보를 기반으로 한 한명 또는 여러 명의 얼굴을 검출하는 효과적인 알고리즘을 제안한다. 먼저 우리는 컬러 영상에서 가우시안 혼합 모델을 이용한 피부색 검출 방법에 대해 소개한다. 그리고 Kinect V2의 깊이 센서를 이용하여 획득한 3차원의 깊이 정보는 배경으로부터 사람의 몸을 분할할 때 유용하다. 그리고 레이블링 과정에서 여러 개의 특징을 이용하여 얼굴이 아닌 영역은 성공적으로 제거된다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안한 얼굴 검출 알고리즘은 다양한 조건과 복잡한 배경에서 얼굴이 효과적으로 검출되는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권10호
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• pp.4108-4125
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• 2015

This paper presents a scalable coding method for depth images by considering the quality of synthesized images in virtual views. First, we design a new edge detection algorithm that is based on calculating the depth difference between two neighboring pixels within the depth map. By choosing different thresholds, this algorithm generates a scalable bit stream that puts larger depth differences in front, followed by smaller depth differences. A scalable scheme is also designed for coding depth pixels through a layered sampling structure. At the receiver side, the full-resolution depth image is reconstructed from the received bits by solving a partial-differential-equation (PDE). Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the rate-distortion performance of synthesized images at virtual views and achieves better visual quality.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a method which detects the nose and face of certain human by using the depth image. The proposed method has advantages of the low computational complexity and the high accuracy even in dark environment. Also, the detection accuracy of nose and face does not change in various postures. The proposed method first locates the locally protruding part from the depth image of the human body captured through the depth camera, and then confirms the nose through the depth characteristic of the nose and surrounding pixels. After finding the correct pixel of the nose, we determine the region of interest centered on the nose. In this case, the size of the region of interest is variable depending on the depth value of the nose. Then, face region can be found by performing binarization using the depth histogram in the region of interest. The proposed method can detect the nose and the face accurately regardless of the pose or the illumination of the captured area.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.1848-1851
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• 1997

This paper presents the development of depth detection algorithm for the 3D Endoscopic Data using a stereo matchod and depth calcuation.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.73-77
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• 2012

This paper reports a combined depth- and model-based face detection and tracking approach. The proposed algorithm consists of four functional modules; i) color-based candidate region extraction, ii) generation of the depth histogram for handling occlusion, iii) rotation-invariant face region detection using ellipse fitting, and iv) face tracking based on motion prediction. This technique solved the occlusion problem under complicated environment by detecting the face candidate region based on the depth-based histogram and skin colors. The angle of rotation was estimated by the ellipse fitting method in the detected candidate regions. The face region was finally determined by inversely rotating the candidate regions by the estimated angle using Haar-like features that were robustly trained robustly by the frontal face.