• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1015-1016
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• 2008

In this paper, the method which searchs a character of face and transforms it by FACS(Facial Action Coding System) for face modeling is suggested. FACS has a function to build an expression of face to AUs(Action Units) and make various face expressions. The system performs to find accurate Action Units of sample face and use setted AUs. Consequently it carries out the coefficient for transforming face model by 2D AUs matching.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 2019

There are many ways to perform face recognition. The first step of face recognition is the face detection step. If the face is not found in the first step, the face recognition fails. Face detection research has many difficulties because it can be varied according to face size change, left and right rotation and up and down rotation, side face and front face, facial expression, and light condition. In this study, facial features are extracted and the extracted features are geometrically reconstructed in order to improve face recognition rate in extracted face region. Also, it is aimed to adjust face angle using reconstructed facial feature vector, and to improve recognition rate for each face angle. In the recognition attempt using the result after the geometric reconstruction, both the up and down and the left and right facial angles have improved recognition performance.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.59-73
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• 2003

As a means of overcoming the linguistic barrier between different languages in the Internet, a new sign-language communication system with CG animation techniques has been developed and proposed. In the system, the joint angles of the arms and the hands corresponding to the gesture as a non-verbal communication tool have been considered. The emotional expression, however, could as play also an important role in communicating each other. Especially, a comic expression is more efficient than real facial expression, and the movements of the cheeks and the jaws are more important AU's than those of the eyebrow, eye, mouth etc. Therefore, in this paper, we designed a 3D emotion editor using 2D model, and we extract AU's (called as PAU, here) which play a principal function in expressing emotions. We also proposed a method of generating the universal emotional expression with Avatar models which have different vertex structures. Here, we employed a method of dynamically adjusting the AU movements according to emotional intensities. The proposed system is implemented with Visual C＋＋ and Open Inventor on windows platforms. Experimental results show a possibility that the system could be used as a non-verbal communication means to overcome the linguistic barrier.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.614-623
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• 1994

Synthesizing speech and facial images is necessary for human interface that man and machine converse naturally as human do. The target of this paper is synthesizing the facial images. In synthesis of the facial images a three-dimensional (3-D) shape model of the face is used for realizating the facial expression variations and the lip shape variations. The various facial expressions and lip shapes harmonized with the syllables are synthesized by deforming the three-dimensional model on the basis of the facial muscular actions. Combications with the consonants and the vowels make 14.364 syllables. The vowels dominate most lip shapes but the consonants do a part of them. For determining the lip shapes, this paper investigates all the syllables and classifies the lip shapes pattern according to the vowels and the consonants. As the results, the lip shapes are classified into 8 patterns for the vowels and 2patterns for the consonants. In advance, the paper determines the synthesis rules for the classified lip shape patterns. This method permits us to obtain the natural facial image with the various facial expressions and lip shape patterns.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 2020

Purpose: This study was conducted to objectively and subjectively compare the accuracy and reliability of 2-dimensional(2D) photography and 3-dimensional(3D) soft tissue imaging. Materials and Methods: Facial images of 50 volunteers(25 males, 25 females) were captured with a Nikon D800 2D camera (Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan), 3D stereophotogrammetry (SPG), and laser scanning (LS). All subjects were imaged in a relaxed, closed-mouth position with a normal smile. The 2D images were then exported to Mirror^® Software (Canfield Scientific, Inc, NJ, USA) and the 3D images into Proplan CMF^® software (version 2.1, Materialise HQ, Leuven, Belgium) for further evaluation. For an objective evaluation, 2 observers identified soft tissue landmarks and performed linear measurements on subjects' faces (direct measurements) and both linear and angular measurements on all images(indirect measurements). For a qualitative analysis, 10 dental observers and an expert in facial imaging (subjective gold standard) completed a questionnaire regarding facial characteristics. The reliability of the quantitative data was evaluated using intraclass correlation coefficients, whereas the Fleiss kappa was calculated for qualitative data. Results: Linear and angular measurements carried out on 2D and 3D images showed excellent inter-observer and intra-observer reliability. The 2D photographs displayed the highest combined total error for linear measurements. SPG performed better than LS, with borderline significance (P=0.052). The qualitative assessment showed no significant differences among the 2D and 3D imaging modalities. Conclusion: SPG was found to a reliable and accurate tool for the morphological evaluation of soft tissue in comparison to 2D imaging and laser scanning.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 1998

컴퓨터 하드웨어 기술과 멀티미디어 기술의 발달로 멀티미디어 입출력 장치를 이용한 고급 인터메이스의 필요성이 대두되었다. 친근감 있는 사용자 인터페이스를 제공하기 위해 실감 있는 얼굴 애니메이션에 대한 요구가 증대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사람의 내적 상태를 잘 표현하는 얼굴의 표정을 3차원 모델을 이용하여 애니메이션을 수행한다. 애니메이션에 실재감을 더하기 위해 실제 얼굴 영상을 사용하여 3차원의 얼굴 모델을 변형하고, 여러 방향에서 얻은 얼굴 영상을 이용하여 텍스터 매핑을 한다. 변형된 3차원 모델을 이용하여 얼굴 표정을 애니메이션 하기 위해서 해부학에 기반한 Waters의 근육 모델을 수정하여 사용한다. 그리고, Ekman이 제안한 대표적인 6가지 표정들을 합성한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.4 s.33
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• pp.533-540
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• 2006

In this study we propose to use a facial motion capture technique to track facial motions and expressions effectively by using the stereo vision module, which has two CMOS IMAGE SENSORS. In the proposed tracking algorithm, a center point tracking technique and correlation tracking technique, based on neural networks, were used. Experimental results show that the two tracking techniques using stereo vision motion capture are able to track general face expressions at a 95.6% and 99.6% success rate, for 15 frames and 30 frames, respectively. However, the tracking success rates(82.7%,99.1%) of the center point tracking technique was far higher than those(78.7%,92.7%) of the correlation tracking technique, when lips trembled.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.40-44
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• 1998

사용자에 게 친근감 있는 인터페이스를 제공하기 위해 자연스러운 얼굴 애니메이션에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다.[5][6] 본 논문에서는 자연스러운 얼굴의 표정 합성을 위한 애니메이션 방법 을 제안하였다. 특정한 사람을 모델로 한 얼굴 애니메이션을 위하여 우선 3차원 메쉬로 구성된 일반 모델(generic model)을 특정 사람에게 정합 하여 특정인의 3차원 얼굴 모델을 얻을 수 있다 본 논문에서는 한국인의 자연스러운 얼굴 표정합성을 위하여, 한국인의 표준얼굴에 관한 연구결과를 토대로 한국인 얼굴의 특징을 반영한 일반모델을 만들고 이를 이용하여 특정인의 3차원 얼굴 모델을 얻을 수 있도록 하였다. 실제 얼굴의 근육 및 피부 조직 등 해부학적 구조에 기반 한 표정 합성방법을 사용하여 현실감 있고 자연스러운 얼굴 애니메이션이 이루어질 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.11
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• pp.1482-1484
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• 2019

We present a method for transmitting 3D object information in real time in a telepresence system. Three-dimensional object information consists of a large amount of point cloud data, which requires high performance computing power and ultra-wideband network transmission environment to process and transmit such a large amount of data in real time. In this paper, multiple users can transmit object motion and facial expression information in real time even in small network bands by using GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), a non-supervised learning machine learning algorithm, for real-time transmission of 3D point cloud data. In particular, we propose the creation of an object similar to the original using only the feature information of 3D objects using conditional GANs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.465-468
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• 2002

최근 컴퓨터를 이용한 시각 분야가 발전하면서 인간과 관계된 연구가 중요시 되어, 사람과 컴퓨터의 인터페이스에 대한 새로운 시도들이 다양하게 이루어지고 있다. 특히 얼굴 형상 모델링과 얼굴 표정변화를 애니메이션 화하는 방법에 대한 연구가 활발히 수행되고 있으며, 그 용도가 매우 다양하고, 적용 범위도 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국인의 얼굴특성에 맞는 표준적인 일반모델을 생성하고, 실제 사진과 같이 개개인의 특성에 따라 정확한 형상을 유지할 수 있는 3차원 형상 모델을 제작한다. 그리고 자연스러운 얼굴 표정 생성을 위하여, 근육모델 기반의 얼굴표정 생성 시스템을 개발하여, 자연스럽고 실제감 있는 얼굴애니메이션이 이루어질 수 있도록 하였다.