• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.6-7
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 지역적 학습 방법을 활용하는 Average Neighborhood Margin Maximization(ANMM)에 기반하여 피부색과 비피부색 영역을 분리하는 이진 분류의 통계적 접근법을 제안한다. Fisher Linear Discriminant(FLD)와 Average Neighborhood Margin Maximization(ANMM)의 피부색과 비피부색 클래스 내 분산 대비 클래스 간 분산의 비교를 통해 두 클래스 간 분리력 변화를 확인한다. 교사(Supervised) 이진 분류문제에 대하여 Small sample size(SSS) 문제, 가우시안 분포 가정의 문제, 최대 추출 가능 특징 수 제한 문제 등을 해결함과 동시에, 지역적 특성 학습 방법의 도입을 통해 피부색과 비피부색 간 분리력을 향상시킨다.

• 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 Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.446-448
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 조명 보정과 지역적인 밝기 정보를 이용한 유해 영상에서의 피부색 검출 방법을 제안한다. 첫번째, 조명의 영향을 줄이기 위하여 입력 영상을 히스토그램 평활화하여 명암 값의 분포가 한쪽으로 치우치거나 균일하지 못한 영상의 명암 값 분포를 균일화 시켜 영상을 향상될 수 있도록 한다. 그 다음, 평활화 시킨 영상을 25 개의 블록으로 분할한 후, 각 블록에서의 밝기 값에 대한 통해 평균과 왜도를 구한다. 구해진 값들을 영상의 임계값으로 설정하여 이진화 시킨다. 그리고, 평활화시킨 영상의 RGB 값을 Lab 컬러 공간으로 변환한다. 변환된 컬러 공간내의 조명 성분 값인 L(Luminance)값을 추출하여 이를 역변환 한다. 역변환한 L 값은 비정규 조명을 갖는 유해 영상의 조명에 민감한 영향을 제거하기 위하여 평활화 영상에 합한다. 마지막으로, 밝기 임계값을 통해서 얻어진 이진영상내의 객체 영역과 RGB 피부색 임계값을 통한 조명 보정된 평활화 영상내의 피부색 영역의 공통된 영역을 결과값으로 추출한다.

• 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 Platform Technology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.59-71
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• 2023

This paper proposes a method of estimating the illumination chromaticity of a scene in which an image is taken. Storring and Bianco proposed a method of estimating illuminant chromaticity using skin color. Storring et al. used skin color distribution characteristics and black body locus, but there is a problem that the link between the locus and CIE-xy data is reduced. Bianco et al. estimated the illuminant chromaticity by comparing the skin color distribution in standard lighting with the skin color distribution in the input image. This method is difficult to measure and secure as much skin color as possible in various illumination. The proposed method can estimate the illuminant chromaticity for any input image by analyzing the relationship between the skin color information and the illuminant chromaticity. The estimation method is divided into an analysis stage and a test stage, and the data set was classified into an analysis group and a test group and used. Skin chromaticity is calculated by obtaining skin color areas from all input images of the analysis group, respectively. A mapping is obtained by analyzing the correlation between the average set of skin chromaticity and the reference illuminant chromaticity set. The calculated mapping is applied to all input images of the analysis group to estimate the illuminant chromaticity, calculate the error with the reference illuminant chromaticity, and repeat the above process until there is no change in the error to obtain a stable mapping. The obtained mapping is applied to the test group images similar to the analysis stage to estimate the illuminant chromaticity. Since there is no independent data set containing skin area and illuminant reference information, the experimental data set was made using some of the images of the Intel TAU data set. Compared to Finlayson, a similar theory-based existing method, it showed performance improvement of more than 40%, Zhang 11%, and Kim 16%.

• 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.48 no.1
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• pp.127-132
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a novel method of adult image classification by combining skin color regions and edges in an input image. The proposed method consists of four steps. In the first step, initial skin color regions are detected by logical AND operation of all skin color regions detected by the existing methods of skin color detection. In the second step, a skin color probability map is created by modeling the distribution of skin color in the initial regions. Then, a binary image is generated by using threshold value from the skin color probability map. In the third step, after using the binary image and edge information, we detect final skin color regions using a region growing method. In the final step, adult image classification is performed by support vector machine(SVM). To this end, a feature vector is extracted by combining the final skin color regions and neighboring edges of them. As experimental results, the proposed method improves performance of the adult image classification by 9.6%, compared to the existing method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.396-405
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• 2001

Usually it is difficult to extract facial regions in a complex image by using only a predetermined skin color. Expecially, it is more difficult to separate them from background regions that contains the skin color. This paper proposes a face detection method by using gradual range expansion of an initial skin color. By analyzing the skin color distribution several images that are collected in the Web, the range of dense distribution is selected as the range of the initial skin color. In each expanding step, expanded regions in the image are tested whether they can be actual facial regions by using the information of the shape of general face and the location of face organs. The shape of general face is modeled as an ellipse and the aspect ratio of its bounding box is used to define the shape constraint for faces. Only the eyes and lips are used as the face organs, which can be easily detected by extracting horizontal edges in the expanded regions. through several experiments, it is confirmed that the proposed method can detect exactly not only faces having partly distorted regions by highlight but also faces neighboring similar color regions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.553-555
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• 2003

사람의 얼굴을 검출 및 인식을 하는 여러 가지 다양한 알고리즘이 소개되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사람의 피부색을 이용한 컬러정보(Color Information)와 국부 최적 임계치 기법을 사용하여 얼굴의 형상정보를 검출하고 얼굴 영역을 검출하는 방법을 사용한다. 컬러정보를 사용하여 얼굴의 후보영역을 선정한 후에 그 후보영역에서 얼굴의 특징인 눈, 눈썹, 입을 찾는 방법을 제안한다. 피부색은 일정한 분포를 가지고 있기 때문에 후보영역을 비교적 정확히 찾을 수 있으며, 국부 최적 임계치 기법은 효과적인 얼굴 특징 검출방법이다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.953-961
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• 2003

This paper suggests an efficient method to extract face regions from the com]]lex background. Input image is transformed to color space, where the data is independent of the brightness and several regions are extracted by skin color information. Each extracted region is processed as an object. Noise and overlapped objects ate removed. The candidate objects, faces are likely to be included in, are selected by checking the sizes of extracted objects, the XY ratio, and the distribution ratio of skin colors. In this processing, the objects without face are excluded out of candidate regions. The proposed method can be applied for successful extraction of face regions under various conditions such as face extraction with complex background, slanted faces, and face with accessories, etc.