• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.31-40
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• 2003

Most face recognition systems are based on 2D images and applied in many applications. However, it is difficult to recognize a face when the pose varies severely. Therefore, head pose estimation is an inevitable procedure to improve recognition rate when a face is not frontal. In this paper, we propose a novel head pose estimation algorithm for 3D face recognition. Given the 3D range image of an unknown face as an input, we automatically extract facial feature points based on the face curvature. We propose an Error Compensated Singular Value Decomposition (EC-SVD) method based on the extracted facial feature points. We obtain the initial rotation angle based on the SVD method, and perform a refinement procedure to compensate for remained errors. The proposed algorithm is performed by exploiting the extracted facial features in the normaized 3D face space. In addition, we propose a 3D nearest neighbor classifier in order to select face candidates for 3D face recognition. From simulation results, we proved the efficiency and validity of the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.135-138
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 3D 레이저 스캐너로 입력된 3차원 얼굴 영상에서 코의 특징 정보를 이용하여 얼굴을 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 특히 3차원 영상은 주변의 조명 변화에 크게 영향을 받지 않는 장점이 있다. 이러한 정보를 이용하여, 제안된 알고리즘에서는 얼굴에서 가장 두드러지게 보이는 코의 3차원 정보를 이용하여 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 먼저 코를 추출한 다음, 회전된 3차원 영상에 대하여 정규화를 실시하고, 등고선을 이용한 영역기반의 방법과 특징기반의 방법을 이온하여 인식을 수행한다. 등고선을 이용한 영역기반은 3차원 얼굴 영상을 코끝의 좌표를 기준 점으로 등고선의 값이 10, 20, 30이 되는 영역을 추출 한 후 데이터 베이스 값들과 비교하여 각각의 차 영역에 대한 무게중심(X, Y), 픽셀 수, 분산을 구하여 순위가 가장 높은 것을 취한다. 특징 기반의 방법으로, 얼굴에 있어서의 실제의 코의 길이, 높이, 너비를 구하여 그 차가 가장 적은 것을 취한다. 위의 2가지 방법을 이용하여 인식을 수행 결과 100%의 인식률을 나타내었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.748-753
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• 2012

In this paper, Face recognition algorithm is designed based on optimized pRBFNNs pattern classifier using three-dimensional scanner. Generally two-dimensional image-based face recognition system enables us to extract the facial features using gray-level of images. The environmental variation parameters such as natural sunlight, artificial light and face pose lead to the deterioration of the performance of the system. In this paper, the proposed face recognition algorithm is designed by using three-dimensional scanner to overcome the drawback of two-dimensional face recognition system. First face shape is scanned using three-dimensional scanner and then the pose of scanned face is converted to front image through pose compensation process. Secondly, data with face depth is extracted using point signature method. Finally, the recognition performance is confirmed by using the optimized pRBFNNs for solving high-dimensional pattern recognition problems.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.539-544
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• 2013

In this paper, we was designed three-dimensional face recognition algorithm using polynomial based RBFNNs and proposed method to calculate the recognition performance. In case of two-dimensional face recognition, the recognition performance is reduced by the external environment like facial pose and lighting. In order to compensate for these shortcomings, we perform face recognition by obtaining three-dimensional images. obtain face image using three-dimension scanner before the face recognition and obtain the front facial form using pose-compensation. And the depth value of the face is extracting using Point Signature method. The extracted data as high-dimensional data may cause problems in accompany the training and recognition. so use dimension reduction data using PCA algorithm. accompany parameter optimization using optimization algorithm for effective training. Each recognition performance confirm using PSO, DE, GA algorithm.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2011

A 3D face shape derived from 2D images may be useful in many applications, such as face recognition, face synthesis and human computer interaction. To do this, we develop a fast 3D Active Appearance Model (3D-AAM) method using depth estimation. The training images include specific 3D face poses which are extremely different from one another. The landmark's depth information of landmarks is estimated from the training image sequence by using the approximated Jacobian matrix. It is added at the test phase to deal with the 3D pose variations of the input face. Our experimental results show that the proposed method can efficiently fit the face shape, including the variations of facial expressions and 3D pose variations, better than the typical AAM, and can estimate accurate 3D face shape from images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.310-312
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• 2003

본 논문은 3차원 얼굴 형상을 이용한 얼굴 인식에 있어서, 정규화 과정에 사용될 얼굴의 특징 영역을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 3차원 얼굴 형상은 조명의 변화에 상관없이 얼굴의 특징 분석이 가능하고, 이를 이용한 얼굴 인식이 가능하다. 그러나, 입력된 형상에 따라 회전, 기울어진 정도, 그리고 좌우로 움직인 정도가 다르다 이런 특성을 고려하지 않고 추출된 특징들은 잘못된 인식 결과를 초래할 수 있다. 이런 이유로 입력시의 오류 돌을 바로잡는 정규화 과정이 필요하다. 정규화 과정에서는 얼굴의 기하학적인 특징(눈, 코, 입 등)을 이용하는 것이 일반적이다. 이들 중, 코는 3차원 얼굴 형상에서 두드러진 특징이 될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 코의 실제 형상과 유사한 코 형상 추출 마스크를 사용하여 입력된 형상으로부터 코 영역을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.130-137
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• 2006

The depth information in the face represents personal features in detail. In particular, the surface curvatures extracted from the face contain the most important personal facial information. This surface curvature and together with grouped projection vector which reduces the dimensions resulting less computations are collaborated into the proposed 3D face recognition algorithm. The maximum and minimum curvature are calculated from the surface curvature image, which are grouped into projected vectors for recognition. The minimum curvature showed the best recognition rate among the surface parameters.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.474-483
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• 2004

In this paper, we present a new Practical implementation of a person verification system using the profile of 3-dimensional(3D) face images based on weighted Hausdorff distance(WHD) used depth information. The approach works on finding the nose tip have protrusion shape on the face using iterative selection method to use a fiducial feint and extract the profile image from vertical 3D data for the nose tip. Hausdorff distance(HD) is one of usually used measures for object matching. This works analyze the conventional HD and WHD, which the weighted factor is depth information. The Ll measure for comparing two feature vectors were used, because it is simple and robust. In the experimental results, the WHD method achieves recognition rate of 94.3% when the ranked threshold is 5.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.818-825
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• 2002

Depth information is one of the most important factor for the recognition of a digital face image. Range images are very useful, when comparing one face with other faces, because of implicating depth information. As the processing for the whole fare produces a lot of calculations and data, face images ran be represented in terms of a vector of feature descriptors for a local area. In this paper, depth areas of a 3 dimensional(3D) face image were extracted by the contour line from some depth value. These were resampled and stored in consecutive location in feature vector using multiple feature method. A comparison between two faces was made based on their distance in the feature space, using Euclidian distance. This paper reduced the number of index data in the database and used fewer feature vectors than other methods. Proposed algorithm can be highly recognized for using local depth information and less feature vectors or the face.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1373-1374
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• 2015

본 논문은 복잡한 비선형 모델링 방법인 다항식 기반 RBF 뉴럴 네트워크(Radial Basis Function Neural Network)와 벡터공간에서 임의의 비선형 경계를 찾아 두 개의 집합을 분류하는 방법으로 주어진 조건하에서 수학적으로 최적의 해를 찾는 SVM(Support Vector Machine)를 사용하여 3차원 얼굴인식 모델을 설계하고 두 모델의 3차원 얼굴 인식률을 비교한다. 3D스캐너를 통해 3차원 얼굴형상을 획득하고 획득한 영상을 전처리 과정에서 포인트 클라우드 정합과 포즈보상을 수행한다. 포즈보상 통해 정면으로 재배치한 영상을 Multiple Point Signature기법을 이용하여 얼굴의 깊이 데이터를 추출한다. 추출된 깊이 데이터를 RBFNN과 SVM의 입력패턴과 출력으로 선정하여 모델을 설계한다. 각 모델의 효율적인 학습을 위해 PCA 알고리즘을 이용하여 고차원의 패턴을 축소하여 모델을 설계하고 인식 성능을 비교 및 확인한다.