In this paper we propose a new framework to obtain 3D shape information of thin film rapidly. The conventional equipments based on reflectometry are not suitable for obtaining 3D overall shape information of thin film rapidly since they require more than 30 minutes to measure the absolute thickness for 170 points. The proposed framework is based on an image analysis method that extracts contour lines from interference fringes images using Canny edge detector. The absolute thicknesses for contour lines are measured and then a height map from the contour lines is obtained by interpolation using modified Borgefors distance transformation. The extracted height map is visualized using the DirectX 3D terrain rendering method. The proposed framework can provide 3D overall shape information of thin film in about 5 minutes since relatively small number of real measurement for contour lines is required.
This paper proposes an image stabilization algorithm for close watching UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) using motion separation and stabilization mode. The motion of UAV is composed of its actual navigating motion and unwanted vibrating motion so that image sequences obtained from UAV are shaken randomly. In order to stabilize these images we separate the vibrating motion component from UAV motion and remove the effect caused by it from image sequences. In the proposed algorithm the motion and global intensity change of two consecutive images are modeled with 6 motion parameters and 2 intensity change parameters respectively. These modeled parameters are estimated by non-linear least square method based on Gauss-Newton algorithm. The vibrating motion component is separated from the estimated motion using IIR filtering and the geometric deformation caused by it is removed from image sequences. In order to apply the proposed method to real aerial image sequences with many abrupt changes of camera view, we proposed a stabilizing method using two different modes named as stabilizing and non-stabilizing mode. Experimental results show that the accuracy of motion estimation is 99% and the efficiency of removing the vibrating motion component is 90%. We apply the proposed method to real aerial image sequences and verified its stabilizing performance.
LCD 수요 증가에 따라 LCD 생산 효율성 개선을 위한 검사장비의 중요성이 지속적으로 부각되고 있다. 패턴 검사기는 라인 스캔 카메라와 같은 광학 장비를 통해 미세한 패턴 결함을 빠른 속도로 검출하는 장비이다. 이러한 패턴 검사기는 실시간 검사를 위해 패턴 내에서 단일 기준값을 사용하여 픽셀 단위의 결함 여부를 판단하고 있다. 하지만 패턴 내 각 영역별 특징을 반영하여 서로 다른 기준값을 적용하는 적응적 이진화를 이용하는 경우 결함 검출 성능을 크게 향상시킬 수 있다. 이러한 적응적 이진화를 적용하기 위해서는 특정 검사 대상 픽셀이 어떠한 영역에 속하는지에 대한 정보를 필요로 한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 각각의 검사 대상 픽셀이 어떠한 영역에 속하는지를 판단하는 영역 매칭 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 머신 비전의 실시간성을 고려한 패턴 정합에 기반을 둔 알고리즘으로 실제 시스템에 적용될 수 있도록 GPGPU를 이용하여 구현된다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 방법이 실제 시스템이 요구하는 처리 속도를 만족시킬 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 결함 검출의 성능을 개선할 수 있음을 보인다. As the demand for LCD increases, the importance of inspection equipment for improving the efficiency of LCD production is continuously emphasized. The pattern inspection apparatus is one that detects minute defects of pattern quickly using optical equipment such as line scan camera. This pattern inspection apparatus makes a decision on whether a pixel is a defect or not using a single threshold value in order to meet constraint of real time inspection. However, a method that uses an adaptive thresholding scheme with different threshold values according to characteristics of each region in a pattern can greatly improve the performance of defect detection. To apply this adaptive thresholding scheme it has to be known that a certain pixel to be inspected belongs to which region. Therefore, this paper proposes a region matching algorithm that recognizes the region of each pixel to be inspected. The proposed algorithm is based on the pattern matching scheme with the consideration of real time constraint of machine vision and implemented through GPGPU in order to be applied to a practical system. Simulation results show that the proposed method not only satisfies the requirement for processing time of practical system but also improves the performance of defect detection.
This paper proposes a monocular visual odometry algorithm based on Robust Aged Feature Set (RAFSet). Conventional visual odometry algorithms generally adopt optimization algorithms to resolve tracking and matching errors in motion estimation caused by noise or occlusion. However, continuous failures in motion estimation can lead to extreme states that cannot be resolved through this optimization algorithm. We propose the RAFSet framework that effectively manages and controls the detected features of an image sequence for motion estimation to avoid such failures in motion estimation and estimate more robust motion information. A RAFSet is composed of Robust Aged Features (RAFs) that are detected or tracked from each image frame. Each RAF has an age value representing its reliability degree as a robust feature and several pieces of useful information for motion estimation. The proposed RAFSet framework adjusts the age value of each RAF effectively and only uses RAFs with a high age value to attain better motion estimation results. Experimental results for a popular dataset confirm that the motion estimation accuracy is improved using the proposed RAFSet framework.
In this paper, a frame rate up-conversion method that uses a texture adaptive motion estimation technique is proposed for reducing motion-blur problems in liquid crystal displays. Conventional bilateral motion estimation techniques have a major common drawback to hardly detect true motion vector if there are blocks with simple texture within the search range. To solve this problem, a texture adaptive bilateral motion estimation method that increases cost value of block with simple texture is proposed. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms conventional methods in both objective and subjective image quality.
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