• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2012

In this paper an extension to an original active shape model(ASM) for facial feature extraction is presented. The original ASM suffers from poor shape alignment by aligning the shape model to a new instant of the object in a given image using a simple similarity transformation. It exploits only informations such as scale, rotation and shift in horizontal and vertical directions, which does not cope effectively with the complex pose variation. To solve the problem, new shape alignment with 6 degrees of freedom is derived, which corresponds to an affine transformation. Another extension is to speed up the calculation of the Mahalanobis distance for 2-D profiles by trimming the profile covariance matrices. Extensive experiment is conducted with several images of varying poses to check the performance of the proposed method to segment the human faces.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.67-73
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• 2010

In this paper, a new face detection method that is more accurate than the conventional methods is proposed. This method utilizes a hybrid of Hausdorff distance based on the geometric similarity between the two sets of points and the LBP distance based on the distribution of local micro texture of an image. The parameters for normalization and the optimal blending factor of the two different metrics were calculated from training sample images. Popularly used face database was used to show that the proposed method is more effective and robust to the variation of the pose, illumination, and back ground than the methods based on the Hausdorff distance or LBP distance. In the particular case, the average error distance between the detected and the true face location was reduced to 47.9% of the result of LBP method, and 22.8% of the result of Hausdorff method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.168-173
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• 2012

This paper presents a new human identification algorithm using partial features of the uncovered portion of face when a person wears a mask. After the face area is detected, the feature is extracted from the eye area above the mask. The identification process is performed by comparing the acquired one with the registered features. For extracting features SIFT(scale invariant feature transform) algorithm is used. The extracted features are independent of brightness and size- and rotation-invariant for the image. The experiment results show the effectiveness of the suggested algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.823-826
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 얼굴 영상으로부터 얼굴인식을 위한 눈동자를 검출하기 위한 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 방법은 분리 필터를 사용하여 홍채의 후보가 되는 영역을 구한 후 양자를 잇는 선분의 길이 및 기울기의 허용치 안에 있는 모든 영역에 대해 본 논문에서 제안한 방식으로 그 값을 계산한다. 이 값은 영역의 근방영역에서 홍채의 경계선에 대응하는 원을 허프변환으로 구했을 때 후보 영역의 원에서의 후보 영역과 인접하면서 분리된 영역 내의 평균 휘도 값 및 영역을 포함한 부분화상과 눈의 템프릿 사이의 정규화된 상관계수를 사용하여 계산된다. 그리고 그 값을 최소로 하는 영역들을 택하여 이것을 양눈의 홍채로 검출한다. 안경을 쓰지 않은 총 150장의 얼굴영상을 사용하여 실험한 결과 최대 97.3%, 최소 95.3%의 성공률을 얻을 수 있었으며, 약간의 오차를 허용한 경우에는 최대 99.3%, 최소 96.7%의 성공률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.600-607
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• 2008

This paper proposes a robust human detection method irrespective of their pose variation using the multiple oriented 2D elliptical filters (MO2DEFs). The MO2DEFs can detect the humans regardless of their poses unlike existing object oriented scale adaptive filter (OOSAF). To overcome OOSAF's limitation, we introduce the MO2DEFs whose shapes look like the oriented ellipses. We perform human detection by applying four different 2D elliptical filters with specific orientations to the 2D spatial-depth histogram and then by taking the thresholds over the filtered histograms. In addition, we determine the human pose by using convolution results which are computed by using the MO2DEFs. We verify the human candidates by either detecting the face or matching head-shoulder shapes over the estimated rotation. The experimental results showed that the accuracy of pose angle estimation was about 88%, the human detection using the MO2DEFs outperformed that of using the OOSAF by $15{\sim}20%$ especially in case of the posed human.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2011

This paper presents a robust method for facial image synthesis under varying illumination by combining illumination correction and Poisson image processing techniques. The presented method automatically detects skin area and corrects highly saturated regions that can cause bad effects on the final synthesis image. The developed method can be applied to various facial synthesis applications by correcting illumination variations that can occur frequently on photos taken with a camera phone.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.7-10
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• 2008

자동차의 수가 점점 증가함에 따라 교통사고도 그 만큼 증가하고 있다. 교통사고의 주요 원인 중 하나가 졸음운전이나 부주의한 운전에 의한 것이다. 따라서 Real-Time으로 운전자의 제스처를 인식하여 졸음운전이나 부주의에 의한 사고를 사전에 예방하여 보다 안전한 운전을 돕는 서비스가 필요시 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 운전자의 제스처 인식에 전처리 과정으로 운전자의 상반신에 대한 영상데이터에서 Adaboost를 이용하여 복잡한 배경과 다양한 환경에서 강인하게 얼굴 영역을 찾는 알고리즘을 소개한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a face recognition system by using the CCD color image. We first get the face candidate image by using YCbCr color model and adaptive skin color information. And we use it initial curve of active contour model to extract face region. We use the Eye map and mouth map using color information for extracting facial feature from the face image. To obtain center point of Log-polar image, we use extracted facial feature from the face image. In order to obtain feature vectors, we use extracted coefficients from DCT and wavelet transform. To show the validity of the proposed method, we performed a face recognition using neural network with BP learning algorithm. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robuster with higher recogntion rate than the conventional method for the rotation and scale variant.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.233-238
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose the methods to select the stable region for the detect region which is required in the system used the face to the ROI in the auto-focus digital camera. this method regards the face region as the ROI in the progressive input frame and focusing the region in the mobile camera embeded ISP module automatically. The learning algorithm to detect the face is the Adaboost algorithm. we proposed the method to detect the slanted face not participate in the train process and postprocessing method for the results of detection, and then we proposed the stabilization method to sustain the region not shake for the region. we estimated the capability for the stabilization algorithm using the RMS between the trajectory and regression curve.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.44-51
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• 2009

This paper addresses a face verification method using the nonlinear composite filter. This face verification process can be simple and speedy because it does not require any reprocessing such as face detection, alignment or cropping. The optimum nonlinear composite filter is derived by minimizing the output energy due to additive noise and an input scene while maintaining the outputs of training images constant. The filter is equipped with the discrimination capability and the robustness to additive noise by minimizing the outputs of the input scene and the noise, respectively. We build the nonlinear composite filter with two training images and compare the filter with the conventional synthetic discriminant function (SDF) filter. The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves are presented as a metric for the performance evaluation. According to the experimental results the optimum nonlinear composite filter is shown to be a robust scheme for face verification in low resolution and noise environments.