• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.2203-2208
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• 2014

The Hough transform (HT), that is a typical algorithm for detecting lines in images, needs considerable computational costs and easily detects pseudo-lines on the real world images, because of the large amount of features generated by their complex background or noise. This paper proposes an improved HT that add a preprocessing to estimate the validity of features to the conventional HT. The feature estimation can remove a lot of inessential features for the line detection using a pattern of $3{\times}3$ block features. Experiments using various images show that the proposed algorithm saves computational costs by removing 14%~58% of features depending on images and besides it is superior to the conventional HT in valid line detection.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.181-182
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 어파인(affine) 변환에 불변하는 지역 검출기에 대하여 다양한 기술자의 성능을 비교하였다. 지난 수 년간 다양한 특징 기술자들이 연구되어 왔고, 이러한 특징 기술자들은 각각의 목적에 따라 상이한 특성을 갖고 있기 때문에 동일한 조건에서 다양한 기술자들의 성능을 비교하는 연구가 필요하다. 그러나 어파인 변환에 불변하는 지역 검출기에 대해 최적의 특징 기술자를 찾는 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 지역적인 패치 기반의 특징 기술자뿐만 아니라 바이너리 기술자와 최근에 제안된 기술자들의 성능을 비교하였다. 제안하는 실험에서는 MSER (maximally stable extremal regions) 검출기를 이용하여 어파인 변환에 불변하는 지역을 검출하였고, 영상 확대 및 축소, 회전, 시점 변환 및 변형 가능한 물체에 대하여 각각 기술자의 성능을 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.6 s.38
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

Facial analysis is used in many applications like face recognition systems, human-computer interface through head movements or facial expressions, model based coding, or virtual reality. In all these applications a very precise extraction of facial feature points are necessary. In this paper we presents a method for automatic extraction of the facial features Points such as mouth corners, eye corners, eyebrow corners. First, face region is detected by AdaBoost-based object detection algorithm. Then a combination of three kinds of feature energy for facial features are computed; valley energy, intensity energy and edge energy. After feature area are detected by searching horizontal rectangles which has high feature energy. Finally, a corner detection algorithm is applied on the end region of each feature area. Because we integrate three feature energy and the suggested estimation method for valley energy and intensity energy are adaptive to the illumination change, the proposed feature extraction method is robust under various conditions.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.53-60
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• 2009

The vision-based driver fatigue detection is one of the most prospective commercial applications of facial expression recognition technology. The facial feature tracking is the primary technique issue in it. Current facial tracking technology faces three challenges: (1) detection failure of some or all of features due to a variety of lighting conditions and head motions; (2) multiple and non-rigid object tracking; and (3) features occlusion when the head is in oblique angles. In this paper, we propose a new active approach. First, the active IR sensor is used to robustly detect pupils under variable lighting conditions. The detected pupils are then used to predict the head motion. Furthermore, face movement is assumed to be locally smooth so that a facial feature can be tracked with a Kalman filter. The simultaneous use of the pupil constraint and the Kalman filtering greatly increases the prediction accuracy for each feature position. Feature detection is accomplished in the Gabor space with respect to the vicinity of predicted location. Local graphs consisting of identified features are extracted and used to capture the spatial relationship among detected features. Finally, a graph-based reliability propagation is proposed to tackle the occlusion problem and verify the tracking results. The experimental results show validity of our active approach to real-life facial tracking under variable lighting conditions, head orientations, and facial expressions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.603-607
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• 2004

The vision-based driver fatigue detection is one of the most prospective commercial applications of facial expression recognition technology. The facial feature tracking is the primary technique issue in it. Current facial tracking technology faces three challenges: (1) detection failure of some or all of features due to a variety of lighting conditions and head motions; (2) multiple and non-rigid object tracking and (3) features occlusion when the head is in oblique angles. In this paper, we propose a new active approach. First, the active IR sensor is used to robustly detect pupils under variable lighting conditions. The detected pupils are then used to predict the head motion. Furthermore, face movement is assumed to be locally smooth so that a facial feature can be tracked with a Kalman filter. The simultaneous use of the pupil constraint and the Kalman filtering greatly increases the prediction accuracy for each feature position. Feature detection is accomplished in the Gabor space with respect to the vicinity of predicted location. Local graphs consisting of identified features are extracted and used to capture the spatial relationship among detected features. Finally, a graph-based reliability propagation is proposed to tackle the occlusion problem and verify the tracking results. The experimental results show validity of our active approach to real-life facial tracking under variable lighting conditions, head orientations, and facial expressions.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.227-232
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• 2018

Nowadays, image manipulation is enormously popular and easier than ever with tons of convenient images editing tools. After several simple operations, users can get visually attractive images which easily trick viewers. In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm which can detect the image splicing using the Markov features. The proposed algorithm reduces the computational complexity by removing unnecessary Markov features which are not used in the image splicing detection process. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated using a famous image splicing dataset which is publicly available. The experimental results show that the proposed technique outperforms the state-of-the-art splicing detection methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.751-753
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• 2004

본 논문에서 색상을 기반으로 한 알고리즘으로 얼굴을 검출하고 검출된 얼굴을 움직이는 Pan-Tilt 카메라 상에서 추적하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 얼굴 검출 알고리즘은 얼굴색의 특징인 피부색상을 이용하여 후보영역을 검출하고 후보 영역에서 얼굴형태의 특징인 타원 형태를 이용하여 최종적으로 얼굴을 검출하였다. 얼굴 추적은 영상에서 검출된 얼굴의 크기 및 위치 정보와 Pan-Tilt 카메라의 위치정보를 이용하여 항상 얼굴이 카메라의 중심에 위치하도록 하였다. 우리는 실제 실험에서 초당 10프레임 이상의 실시간 얼굴 검출 및 추적에 성공하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.1718-1723
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• 2014

We proposes the method to detect the Hangul and English character region from natural image using structural feature of Hangul and English Characters. First, we extract edge features from natural image, Next, if features are not corresponding to the heuristic rule of character features, extracted features filtered out and select candidates of character region. Next, candidates of Hangul character region are merged into one Hangul character using Hangul character merging algorithm. Finally, we detect the final character region by Hangul character class decision algorithm. English character region detected by edge features of English characters. Experimental result, proposed method could detect a character region effectively in images that contains a complex background and various environments. As a result of the performance evaluation, A proposed method showed advanced results about detection of Hangul and English characters region from natural image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.401-408
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a method that automatically detects organs having similar appearances in medical images by learning both context and appearance features. Since only the appearance feature is used to learn the classifier in most existing detection methods, detection errors occur when the medical images include multiple organs having similar appearances. In the proposed method, based on the probabilities acquired by the appearance-based classifier, new classifier containing the context feature is created by iteratively learning the characteristics of probability distribution around the interest voxel. Furthermore, both the efficiency and the accuracy are improved through 'region based voting scheme' in test stage. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we detect femur and tibia which have similar appearance from SKI10 knee joint dataset. The proposed method outperformed the detection method only using appearance feature in aspect of overall detection performance.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.44-49
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• 2015

When the scene has less texture or when camera pose largely changes, the existing texture-based feature tracking methods are not reliable. Topology-based feature description methods, which use the geometric relationship between features such as LLAH, is a good alternative. However, they require feature detection methods with high performance. As a basic study on developing an effective feature detection method for topology-based feature description, this paper aims at examining their applicability to topology-based feature description by analyzing the repeatability of several feature detection methods that are included in the OpenCV library. Experimental results show that FAST outperforms the others.