• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.5834-5840
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• 2013

Along with the development of high-speed, wired and wireless Internet technology, various harmful images in a form of photos and video clips have become prevalent these days. In this paper, we suggest a method of automatically detecting adult images by extracting woman's nipple areas which represent obscenity of the image. The suggested algorithm first segments skin color areas in the $YC_bC_r$ color space from input images and extracts nipple's candidate areas from the segmented skin areas through the suggested nipple map. We then select real nipple areas by using geometrical information and determines input images as harmful images if they contain nipples. Experimental results show that the suggested nipple map-based method effectively detects adult images.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.45-49
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• 2008

Face detection and tracking technology on video sequence has developed indebted to commercialization of teleconference, telecommunication, front stage of surveillance system using face recognition, and video-phone applications. Complex background, color distortion by luminance effect and condition of luminance has hindered face recognition system. In this paper, we have proceeded to research of face recognition on video sequence. We extracted facial area using luminance and chrominance component on $YC_bC_r$ color space. After extracting facial area, we have developed the face recognition system applied to our improved algorithm that combined PCA and LDA. Our proposed algorithm has shown 92% recognition rate which is more accurate performance than previous methods that are applied to PCA, or combined PCA and LDA.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.619-620
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new hand gesture recognition scheme using hand poses captured from a web camera. The key idea of this scheme is to extract skin color from the background-subtracted image. To extract skin color, in the first phase, we subtract background by repeatedly comparing the stored initial frame with next frames. And then we eliminate noise using dynamic table. In the second phase, we exactly recognize hand gesture by extracting skin color from ${YC_b}{C_r}$ color region.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.887-890
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• 2004

임의 영상에서 얼굴 영역을 검출하고 얼굴 특징점 정보를 획득하는 기술은 얼굴 인식 및 표정 인식 시스템에서 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 논문은 색도 정보와 Top-hat 연산을 이용함으로써 얼굴의 유효 특징점을 효과적으로 검출할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 얼굴 영역 검출, 눈/눈썹 특징추출, 입술 특징추출의 세 과정으로 나눈다. 얼굴 영역은 $YC_{b}C_{r}$을 이용하여 피부색 영역을 추출한 후 모폴로지 연산과 분할을 통해 획득하고, 눈/눈썹 특징점은 BWCD(Black & White Color Distribution) 변환과 Top-hat 연산을 이용하며. 입술 특징점은 눈/눈썹과의 지정학적 상관관계와 입술 색상분포를 이용하는 방법을 사용한다. 실험을 수행한 결과. 제안한 방법이 다양한 영상에 대해서도 효과적으로 얼굴의 유효 특징점을 검출할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.777-786
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• 2008

Human face avatar is important information in nowadays, such as describing real people in virtual world. In this paper, we have presented a face avatar creation and warping algorithm by using face feature analysis method, in order to detect face feature, we utilized local mean method based on facial feature appearance and face geometric information. Then detect facial candidates by using it's character in $YC_bC_r$ color space. Meanwhile, we also defined the rules which are based on face geometric information to limit searching range. For analyzing face feature, we used face feature points to describe their feature, and analyzed geometry relationship of these feature points to create the face avatar. Then we have carried out simulation on PC and embed mobile device such as PDA and mobile phone to evaluate efficiency of the proposed algorithm. From the simulation results, we can confirm that our proposed algorithm will have an outstanding performance and it's execution speed can also be acceptable.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.1566-1576
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• 2007

Camera pose information from 2D face image is very important for making virtual 3D face model synchronize with the real face. It is also very important for any other uses such as: human computer interface, 3D object estimation, automatic camera control etc. In this paper, we have presented a camera position determination algorithm from a single 2D face image using the relationship between mouth position information and face region boundary information. Our algorithm first corrects the color bias by a lighting compensation algorithm, then we nonlinearly transformed the image into $YC_bC_r$ color space and use the visible chrominance feature of face in this color space to detect human face region. And then for face candidate, use the nearly reversed relationship information between $C_b\;and\;C_r$ cluster of face feature to detect mouth position. And then we use the geometrical relationship between mouth position information and face region boundary information to determine rotation angles in both x-axis and y-axis of camera position and use the relationship between face region size information and Camera-Face distance information to determine the camera-face distance. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of our algorithm and the correct determination rate is accredited for applying it into practice.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.328-336
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a robust fingertip extraction and extended Continuously Adaptive Mean Shift (CAMSHIFT) based robust hand gesture recognition for natural human-like HRI (Human-Robot Interaction). Firstly, for efficient and rapid hand detection, the hand candidate regions are segmented by the combination with robust $YC_bC_r$ skin color model and haar-like features based adaboost. Using the extracted hand candidate regions, we estimate the palm region and fingertip position from distance transformation based voting and geometrical feature of hands. From the hand orientation and palm center position, we find the optimal fingertip position and its orientation. Then using extended CAMSHIFT, we reliably track the 2D hand gesture trajectory with extracted fingertip. Finally, we applied the conditional density propagation (CONDENSATION) to recognize the pre-defined temporal motion trajectories. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm not only rapidly extracts the hand region with accurately extracted fingertip and its angle but also robustly tracks the hand under different illumination, size and rotation conditions. Using these results, we successfully recognize the multiple hand gestures.