• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.54-61
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• 2009

This paper proposes a skin segmentation method based on region histograms of the color quantization map. First, we make a quantization map of the image using the JSEG algorithm and detect the skin pixel. For the skin region detection, the similar neighboring regions are set by its similarity of the size and location between the previous frame and the present frame from the each region of the color quantization map. Then we compare the similarity of histogram between the color distributions of each quantized region and the skin color model using the histogram distance. We select the skin region by the threshold value calculated automatically. The skin model is updated by the skin color information from the selected result. The proposed algorithm was compared with previous algorithms on the ECHO database and the continuous images captured under time varying illumination for adaptation test. Our approach shows better performance than previous approaches on skin color segmentation and adaptation to varying illumination.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.679-682
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• 2010

피부 영역 검출 기술은 생체 인식 기술의 하나로서 얼굴 자동 인식 혹은 손 모양 자동 인식 등을 위해 사용되고 있다. 일반적으로 색상을 이용하여 피부 영역을 검출하기 위해서는 다양한 피부색 샘플을 이용해 구해진 피부색 모델을 이용한다. 하지만 피부색은 사람마다 다르고, 조명과 같은 주변 환경의 영향도 받기 때문에 다양한 영상에 하나의 고정된 피부색 모델을 적용하여 피부 영역을 검출하기에는 한계가 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 영상 피드백 방법을 이용하여 영상에 적응적인 피부색 모델을 구한 뒤 이를 적용하여 피부 영역을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.193-196
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• 2009

Most of studies adopt a fixed skin color model to segment skin color region in a single image. The methods, however, result in low detection rates or high false positive error rates since the distribution of skin color is varies depending on the characteristics of input image. For the effective skin color segmentation, therefore, we need a adaptive skin color model which changes the model depending on the color distribution of input image. In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive skin color segmentation algorithm consisting of 2 stages which results in both high detection rate and low false positive error rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.112-118
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• 2009

Skin color segmentation techniques have been widely utilized for face/hand detection and tracking in many applications such as a diagnosis system using facial information, human-robot interaction, an image retrieval system. In case of a video image, it is common that the skin color model for a target is updated every frame for the robust target tracking against illumination change. As for a single image, however, most of studies employ a fixed skin color model which may result in low detection rate or high false positive errors. In this paper, we propose a novel method for effective skin color segmentation in a single image, which modifies the conditions for skin color segmentation iteratively by the image feedback of segmented skin color region in a given image.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.60-67
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• 2008

Skin color is a very important information for an automatic face recognition. In this paper, we proposed a skin region extraction method using color information and skin color model. We use the adaptive lighting compensation technique for improved performance of skin region extraction. Also, using an preprocessing filter, normally large areas of easily distinct non skin pixels, are eliminated from further processing. And we use the modified ST color space, where undesired effects are reduced and the skin color distribution fits better than others color space. Experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance than the conventional methods, and reduces processing time by $35{\sim}40%$ on average.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.31-38
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• 2011

Skin color is a very important information for an automatic face recognition. In this paper, we proposed a skin region extraction method using the MLP(Multi-Layer Perceptron) and skin color model. We use the adaptive lighting compensation technique for improved performance of skin region extraction. Also, using an preprocessing filter, normally large areas of easily distinct non-skin pixels, are eliminated from further processing. Experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance than the conventional methods, and reduces processing time by 31~49% on average.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.889-891
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 실시간 영상을 대상으로 조명변화에 강인한 얼굴 영역 자동 검출 방법을 제안한다. 실시간 영상에서 가장 효율적이고 컴퓨터의 계산량을 줄일 수 있는 색상 정보를 이용하여 얼굴 영역을 추출함에 있어 색상 정보사용 시 단점인 외부 조명의 영향을 줄여주는 효과적인 조명 보정 방법을 제시하고 조명 보정에 의해 평활화된 영상에서 YCbCr 색상모델을 적용하여 얼굴 후보 영역을 검출하는 방법을 제시한다. 실험 결과 조명의 영향을 많이 받는 실시간 영상에서 적응적 조명 보정 방법으로 영상을 향상시킨 뒤 Cb, Cr 그리고 Y를 이용함으로서 기존의 방법보다. 얼굴 영역을 보다 정확하게 검출할 수 있음을 볼 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.1031-1043
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• 2013

Extracting hand region from images is the first part in the process to recognize hand posture and gesture interaction. Therefore, a good segmenting method is important because it determines the overall performance of hand recognition systems. Conventional hand segmentation researches were prone to changing illumination conditions or limited to the ability to detect multiple people. In this paper, we propose a robust technique based on the fusion of skin-color data and depth information for hand segmentation process. The proposed algorithm uses skin-color data to localize accurate seed location for region-growing from a complicated background. Based on the seed location, our algorithm adjusts each detected blob to fill up the hole region. A region-growing algorithm is applied to the adjusted blob boundary at the detected depth image to obtain a robust hand region against illumination effects. Also, the resulting hand region is used to train our skin-model adaptively which further reduces the effects of changing illumination. We conducted experiments to compare our results with conventional techniques which validates the robustness of the proposed algorithm and in addition we show our method works well even in a counter light condition.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.4508-4515
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• 2014

Real-time body detection has been researched actively. On the other hand, the detection rate of color distorted images is low because most existing detection methods use static skin color model. Therefore, this paper proposes a new method for detecting the skin color region using a gradient map and saturation features. The basic procedure of the proposed method sequentially consists of creating a gradient map, extracting a gradient feature of skin regions, noise removal using the saturation features of skin, creating a cluster for extraction regions, detecting skin regions using cluster information, and verifying the results. This method uses features other than the color to strengthen skin detection not affected by light, race, age, individual features, etc. The results of the detection rate showed that the proposed method is 10% or more higher than the traditional methods.