• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.433-435
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• 2001

얼굴 인식분야에서 실시간 얼굴검출에 대한 관심이 높아짐에 따라 피부색컬러 모델을 통한 얼굴영역검출에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 그러나, 기존의 피부색 모델은 밝기 정보를 제거한 단일 채널의 색상모델이 대부분이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 얼굴피부색을 보다 효과적으로 모델링하기 위하여, 피부색 특성을 고려하여, 밝기 성분을 제거한 RGB 컬러를 모두 사용하는 H, Cb, Cg의 다채널 피부색 모델을 제시한다. 또한, 색상정보에서 사용하지 않은 밝기 정보는 영상 분할을 통해 사용한다. 제안하는 피부색 모델을 통한 얼굴영역 추출 과정을 보인다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1-12
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• 2009

The correct detection of skin color is an important preliminary process in fields of face detection and human motion analysis. It is generally performed by three steps: transforming the pixel color to a non-RGB color space, dropping the illuminance component of skin color, and classifying the pixels by the skin color distribution model. Skin detection depends on by various factors such as color space, presence of the illumination, skin modeling method. In this paper we propose a 3d skin color model that can segment pixels with several ethnic skin color from images with various illumination condition and complicated backgrounds. This proposed skin color model are formed with each components(Y, Cb, Cr) which transform pixel color to YCbCr color space. In order to segment the skin color of several ethnic groups together, we first create the skin color model of each ethnic group, and then merge the skin color model using its skin color probability. Further, proposed model makes several steps of skin color areas that can help to classify proper skin color areas using small training data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.98-101
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 얼굴영상 인식의 전처리 단계인 피부 영역 자동 검출시 적용 가능하며 조명변화에 강건한 피부 영역 검출을 위한 혼합 컬러모델을 제시한다. 또한, 사용자별로 차이를 보이는 다양한 피부색을 자동으로 인식하고 사용자에 적합한 피부색 영역을 결정하기 위하여 제시한 컬러 모델을 기반으로 한 피부색 영역 모델링 전처리 단계를 제시한다. 우선, 사용자 및 사용 카메라에 따라 차이를 보이는 피부색에 대한 영역 모델을 구축하기 위하여 화면상의 가운데에 손이나 얼굴 영역이 위치하도록 하고 일정 프레임의 화면 정보를 취득한다. 취득 화면 정보로서 각 픽셀에 대한 정규화 된 RGB 성분 및 H 성분, V 성분 정보를 추출하고 이에 대한 평균화된 혼합 컬러 모델을 구축한다. H성분으로 피부색과 비슷한 배경을 제거하고 여기에 YUV 성분 중 적색에서 밝기 값을 뺀 성분인 V 값을 한 번 더 사용하여 밝기 값을 제거한 보다 뚜렷한 얼굴영역을 검출한다.

• 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 Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.1809-1818
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• 2010

In order to detect the skin color area from input images, many prior researches have divided an image into the pixels having a skin color and the other pixels. In a still image or videos, it is very difficult to exactly extract the skin pixels because lighting condition and makeup generate a various variations of skin color. In this thesis, we propose a method that improves its performance using hierarchical merging of 3D skin color model and context informations for the images having various difficulties. We first make 3D color histogram distributions using skin color pixels from many YCbCr color images and then divide the color space into 3 layers including skin color region(Skin), non-skin color region(Non-skin), skin color candidate region (Skinness). When we segment the skin color region from an image, skin color pixel and non-skin color pixels are determined to skin region and non-skin region respectively. If a pixel is belong to Skinness color region, the pixels are divided into skin region or non-skin region according to the context information of its neighbors. Our proposed method can help to efficiently segment the skin color regions from images having many distorted skin colors and similar skin colors.

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.38-43
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• 2008

Skin color information is an important feature for face region detection in color images. This can detect face region using statistical skin color model who is created from skin color information. However, due to the including of different race of people's skin color points, this general statistical model is not accurate enough to detect each specific image as we expected. This paper proposes method to detect correctly face region in various color image that other complexion part is included. In this method set face candidate region applying complexion Gausian distribution based on YCbCr skin color model and applied mathematical morphology to remove noise part and part except face region in color image. And achieved correct face region detection because using Haar-like feature. This approach is capable to distinguish face region from extremely similar skin colors, such as neck skin color or am skin color. Experimental results show that our method can effectively improve face detection results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.107-115
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• 2009

Skin color detection is used to classify input pixels into skin and non skin area, and it requires the classifier to have a high classification rate. In previous work, most classifiers used single color model for skin color detection. However the classification rate can be increased by using more than one color model due to the various characteristics of skin color distribution in different color models, and the MLP is also invested as a more efficient classifier with less parameters than other classifiers. But the input dimension and required parameters of MLP will be increased when using two color models in skin color detection, as a result, the increased parameters will cause the huge teaming time in MLP. In this paper, we propose a MLP based classifier with less parameters in two color models. The proposed partially connected MLP based on two color models can reduce the number of weights and improve the classification rate. Because the characteristic of different color model can be learned in different partial networks. As the experimental results, we obtained 91.8% classification rate when testing various images in RGB and CbCr models.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.1513-1517
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• 2005

In this paper, I make use of a Multi-Channel skin color model with Hue, Cb, Cg using Red, Blue, Green channel altogether which remove bight component as being consider the characteristics of skin color to do modeling more effective to a facial skin color for extracting a facial area. 1 used efficient HOLA(Higher order local autocorrelation function) using 26 feature vectors to obtain both feature vectors of a facial area and the edge image extraction using Harr wavelet in image which split a facial area. Calculated feature vectors are used of date for the facial recognition through learning of neural network It demonstrate improvement in both the recognition rate and speed by proposed algorithm through simulation.