• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.494-503
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a recognition application of facial expression for laughter theraphy on smartphone. It detects face region by using AdaBoost face detection algorithm from the front camera image of a smartphone. After detecting the face image, it detects the lip region from the detected face image. From the next frame, it doesn't detect the face image but tracks the lip region which were detected in the previous frame by using the three step block matching algorithm. The size of the detected lip image varies according to the distance between camera and user. So, it scales the detected lip image with a fixed size. After that, it minimizes the effect of illumination variation by applying the bilateral symmetry and histogram matching illumination normalization. After that, it computes lip eigen vector by using PCA(Principal Component Analysis) and recognizes laughter expression by using a multilayer perceptron artificial network. The experiment results show that the proposed method could deal with 16.7 frame/s and the proposed illumination normalization method could reduce the variations of illumination better than the existing methods for better recognition performance.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.9-16
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• 2020

Pronunciation recognition systems that use only video information and ignore voice information can be applied to various customized services. In this paper, we develop a system that applies a Bayesian classifier to distinguish Korean vowels via lip shapes in images. We extract feature vectors from the lip shapes of facial images and apply them to the designed machine learning model. Our experiments show that the system's recognition rate is 94% for the pronunciation of 'A', and the system's average recognition rate is approximately 84%, which is higher than that of the CNN tested for comparison. Our results show that our Bayesian classification method with feature values from lip region landmarks is efficient on a small training set. Therefore, it can be used for application development on limited hardware such as mobile devices.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.448-451
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• 2002

This study will offer multi-feature recognition instead of an using mono-feature to improve the accuracy of recognition. Each Feature can be found by following ways. For a face, the feature is calculated by the principal component analysis with wavelet multiresolution. For a lip, a filter is used to find out on equation to calculate the edges of the lips first. Then the other feature is calculated by the distance ratio of facial parameters. We've sorted backpropagation neural network and experimented with the inputs used above and then based on the experimental results we discuss the advantage and efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.205-208
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• 2000

본 논문은 멀티모달 시스템에서 응용프로그램 S/W를 제어하는 연구로써 음성과 입술인식기를 결합시켜 문자 데이터를 수신하는 Comdio의 명령어들을 이 시스템이 제어하도록 설계하였다. 음성과 입술인식기는 HMM으로 구현되어 결합 시 각각의 인식기에 8:2의 가중치를 부여하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.2
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• pp.183-188
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• 2001

이 논문은 눈의 형태에 대한 정보를 이용하여 눈동자를 효과적으로 찾는 방법과 얼굴 특성을 반영하는 평가함수를 이용하여 눈동자, 입의 위치와 같은 얼굴 특징들을 인식하는 방법을 제안하였다. 색 정보를 이용하여 입술과 얼굴 영역을 추출하고 눈동자와 흰자위간의 명도 차를 이용하는 함수를 사용하여 눈동자를 인식하였다. 마지막으로 얼굴 특성을 반영하느 평가함수를 정의하고 이를 이용하여 최종적인 얼굴과 눈, 입을 인식하였다. 제안한 방법을 사용하여 여러 영상들에 대해 실험하여 좋은 결과를 얻었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.289-297
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• 2003

The performance of a bimodal system is affected by the accuracy of the endpoint detection from the input signal as well as the performance of the speech recognition or lipreading system. In this paper, we propose the endpoint detection method which detects the endpoints from the audio and video signal respectively and utilizes the signal to-noise ratio (SNR) estimated from the input audio signal to select the reliable endpoints to the acoustic noise. In other words, the endpoints are detected from the audio signal under the high SNR and from the video signal under the low SNR. Experimental results show that the bimodal system using the proposed endpoint detector achieves satisfactory recognition rates, especially when the acoustic environment is quite noisy.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.150-155
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• 2012

POC(Phase-Only Correlation) is a useful method that can conduct face recognition without using feature extraction or eigenface, but uses Fourier transformation for square areas. In this paper, we propose an effective face area to increase the performance of face recognition using POC. Specifically, three areas are experimented for POC. The frist area is the square area that includes head and space. The second area is the square area from ear to ear horizontally and from the end of chin to the forehead vertically. The third area is the square area from the line under the lips to the forehead vertically and from cheek to cheek horizontally. Experimental results show that the second face area has the best advantage among the three types of areas to define the threshold for POC.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.777-782
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• 2002

This study will offer multimodal recognition instead of an existing monomodal bioinfomatics by using facial multi-feature to improve the accuracy of recognition and to consider the convenience of user . Each bioinfomatics vector can be found by the following ways. For a face, the feature is calculated by principal component analysis with wavelet multiresolution. For a lip, a filter is used to find out an equation to calculate the edges of the lips first. Then by using a thinning image and least square method, an equation factor can be drawn. A feature found out the facial parameter distance ratio. We've sorted backpropagation neural network and experimented with the inputs used above. Based on the experimental results we discuss the advantage and efficiency.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.471-477
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• 2002

Recently, lip-reading has been studied actively as an auxiliary method of automatic speech recognition(ASR) in noisy environments. However, almost of research results were obtained based on the database constructed in indoor condition. So, we dont know how developed lip-reading algorithms are robust to dynamic variation of image. Currently we have developed a lip-reading system based on image-transform based algorithm. This system recognize 22 words and this word recognizer achieves word recognition of up to 53.54%. In this paper we present how stable the lip-reading system is in environmental variance and what the main variant factors are about dropping off in word-recognition performance. For studying lip-reading robustness we consider spatial valiance (translation, rotation, scaling) and illumination variance. Two kinds of test data are used. One Is the simulated lip image database and the other is real dynamic database captured in car environment. As a result of our experiment, we show that the spatial variance is one of degradations factors of lip reading performance. But the most important factor of degradation is not the spatial variance. The illumination variances make severe reduction of recognition rates as much as 70%. In conclusion, robust lip reading algorithms against illumination variances should be developed for using lip reading as a complementary method of ASR.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.268-270
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• 2008

얼굴 인식은 영상 처리 분야 중 대표적인 분야의 하나로, 지금까지 다양한 응용시스템이 개발됐다. 얼굴 인식은 눈, 코, 입 같은 얼굴의 특징들을 값으로 변환하고 각 특징 값들의 상관관계를 분석하는 방식으로 이루어지는데, 이 중에서 입은 형태 변화가 심하기 때문에 얼굴 인식에서는 특징 값으로 잘 이용되지 않는다. 반면, 표정 인식이나 화자 인식과 같은 특정 응용 시스템에서는 중요한 특징의 하나로 사용되고 있다. 입 모양을 인식한다는 것은 입술의 형태와 그 변화를 인식한다는 것을 의미하며, 이에 대한 연구가 많이 이루어지기는 했지만 음성 인식의 보조 수단으로 사용된 것이 대부분이다. 본 논문에서는 현재까지 제안된 입 움직임 인식 기술에 대해서 정리하고, 새로이 적용 가능한 응용 시스템에 대해 고찰해보고자 한다.