• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.509-510
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 마우스 제어를 위한 불변 모멘트 기반의 손 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 배경영상과 입력영상의 차이를 구하고, RGB 컬러모델을 HSV 컬러모델로 변환하여 피부색상과 유사한 영역을 얻었다. 이 둘 사이의 교집합을 통하여 손 영역을 추출하고 모폴로지 연산을 통해 잡음을 제거한 다음 불변 모멘트를 이용하여 손 영역을 인식하였다. 제안된 방법은 손의 이동, 크기 변화, 회전에 무관하게 손을 인식할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.374-377
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• 2004

동영상 강의는 시간이나 장소 등에 크게 구애받지 않고 인터넷을 통하여 쉽게 이용할 수 있는 간편한 학습방법중의 하나이다. 그러나 학습자의 학습자세와 태도에 따라 학습효과는 매우 다를 수 있는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 입력영상으로부터 학습자의 얼굴정보를 입력받아 주기적으로 탐색하여 학습자의 강의에 대한 집중도와 충실도를 평가하는 시스템을 제안하고자 하였다. 먼저 입력영상의 분할된 중심영역으로부터 학습자의 얼굴을 포함하는 신체정보를 입력받아 사용하였으며, 빠르고 효율적인 얼굴영역의 추출을 위하여 피부색상(skin-color)정보와 얼굴의 지역적 특성을 이용하는 방법을 사용하였다. 또한 주기적으로 입력되는 영상의 빠른 얼굴추적을 위하여 설정된 영역들로부터 구성되는 블록들의 위치와 구성정보를 이용한 블록탐색 기법을 사용하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.439-445
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• 2021

Low-cost, ultra-high-speed cameras, made possible by the development of image sensors and small displays, can be very useful in image processing and pattern recognition. This paper introduces an algorithm that corrects irregular lighting from a high-speed image that is continuously input with a slight time interval, and which then obtains an exposed skin color region that is the area of interest in a person from the corrected image. In this study, the non-uniform lighting effect from a received high-speed image is first corrected using a frame blending technique. Then, the region of interest is robustly obtained from the input high-speed color image by applying an elliptical skin color distribution model generated from iterative learning in advance. Experimental results show that the approach presented in this paper corrects illumination in various types of color images, and then accurately acquires the region of interest. The algorithm proposed in this study is expected to be useful in various types of practical applications related to image recognition, such as face recognition and tracking, lighting correction, and video indexing and retrieval.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.551-552
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 촬영한 피부 영상(얼굴, 손 등)을 이용한 생체신호(맥박, 호흡, 혈압, 체온 등) 측정 S/W 기술을 제안한다. 기존의 생체신호 측정 기술은 다양한 센서(PPG, 압력 센서, 혈압계, 체온계 등)가 탑재된 측정 장치를 이용하여 상태를 측정하고 이를 진단하는 연구들이 진행되어 왔다. 각 각의 생체신호를 측정하기 위해서는 별도로 구비된 측정 장치들을 이용하여 개별적으로 생체신호를 측정하고 확인하여야 한다. 제안된 기술은 스마트 디바이스에 생체신호 측정 S/W의 설치만으로 카메라로 촬영한 피부 영상의 피부 관심 영역에서 계산된 색상 데이터를 이용하여 다양한 생체신호를 언제 어디서나 실시간으로 측정할 수 있으며, 생체신호 측정 성능 평가 결과 맥박수 2.63%, 호흡수 5.98%, 이완기 혈압 2.48%, 수축기 혈압 5.23% 및 체온 0.25%의 오차율이 계산되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.173-174
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 마우스 제어를 위한 손 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 배경영상과 입력영상의 차영상을 이용하여 움직임 영역을 구하고, RGB 컬러모델을 HSV 컬러모델로 변환하여 피부색상과 유사한 영역을 얻는다. 이 둘 사이의 교집합을 통하여 손 후보 영역을 추출하고 모폴로지 연산을 통해 잡음을 제거한 후 손 영상을 추출한다. 추출한 손 영상을 모폴로지 연산을 이용하여 손바닥 영역과 손가락 영역으로 분리한 다음 손바닥 영역의 위치정보를 마우스의 좌표로, 손가락의 개수를 마우스 이벤트로 정의하여 마우스를 제어한다. 실험 결과는 제안된 시스템이 마우스 제어에 효과적으로 사용될 수 있음을 보이고 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.155-166
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new method of estimating the hand pose through the Mean-Shift tracking algorithm using the fusion of color and depth information for marker-less augmented reality. On marker-less augmented reality, the most of previous studies detect the hand region using the skin color from simple experimental background. Because finger features should be detected on the hand, the hand pose that can be measured from cameras is restricted considerably. However, the proposed method can easily detect the hand pose from complex background through the new Mean-Shift tracking method using the fusion of the color and depth information from 3D sensor. The proposed method of estimating the hand pose uses the gravity point and two random points on the hand without largely constraints. The proposed Mean-Shift tracking method has about 50 pixels error less than general tracking method just using color value. The augmented reality experiment of the proposed method shows results of its performance being as good as marker based one on the complex background.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.609-614
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• 2009

The purpose of this paper is to design the metal object detection system for drive inside protection. To do this, we propose the algorithm for designing the color filter that can detect the metal object using fuzzy theory and the algorithm for detecting area of the driver's face using fuzzy skin color filter. Also, by using the proposed algorithm, we propose the algorithm for detecting the metallic object candidate regions. And, the metallic object color filter is then applied to find the candidate regions. Finally, we show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method through some experiments.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1132-1137
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose Modified Multi CAMShift Algorithm(Modified Multi Continuously Adaptive Mean Shift Algorithm) that extracts skin color area and tracks several human body parts for real-time human tracking system. Skin color area is extracted by filtering input image in predefined RGB value range. These areas are initial search windows of hands and face for tracking. Gaussian background model prevents search window expending because it restricts skin color area. Also when occluding between these areas, we give more weights in occlusion area and move mass center of target area in color probability distribution image. As result, the proposed algorithm performs better than the original CAMShift approach in multiple object tracking and even when occluding of objects with similar colors.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.159-170
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• 2009

It is very important to extract the expression data and capture a face image from a video for online-based 3D face animation. In recently, there are many researches on vision-based approach that captures the expression of an actor in a video and applies them to 3D face model. In this paper, we propose an automatic data extraction system, which extracts and traces a face and expression data from realtime video inputs. The procedures of our system consist of three steps: face detection, face feature extraction, and face tracing. In face detection, we detect skin pixels using YCbCr skin color model and verifies the face area using Haar-based classifier. We use the brightness and color information for extracting the eyes and lips data related facial expression. We extract 10 feature points from eyes and lips area considering FAP defined in MPEG-4. Then, we trace the displacement of the extracted features from continuous frames using color probabilistic distribution model. The experiments showed that our system could trace the expression data to about 8fps.