• International Journal of Contents
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2013

In this paper, we will examine single face tracking algorithms with scaling function in a mobile device. Face detection and tracking either in PC or mobile device with scaling function is an unsolved problem. Standard single face tracking method with particle filter has a problem in tracking the objects where the object can move closer or farther from the camera. Therefore, we create an algorithm which can work in a mobile device and perform a scaling function. The key idea of our proposed method is to extract the average of skin color in face detection, then we compare the skin color distribution between the detected face and the tracking face. This method works well if the face position is located in front of the camera. However, this method will not work if the camera moves closer from the initial point of detection. Apart from our weakness of algorithm, we can improve the accuracy of tracking.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2018

Multi-tracking of general objects and specific faces is an important topic in the field of computer vision applicable to many branches of industry such as biometrics, security, etc. The rapid development of deep neural networks has resulted in a dramatic improvement in face recognition and object detection problems, which helps improve the multiple-face tracking techniques exploiting the tracking-by-detection method. Our proposed method uses face detection trained with a head dataset to resolve the face deformation problem in the tracking process. Further, we use robust face features extracted from the deep face recognition network to match the tracklets with tracking faces using Hungarian matching method. We achieved promising results regarding the usage of deep face features and head detection in a face tracking benchmark.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.707-720
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• 2014

This paper proposes a face tracking scheme that is a combination of a face detection algorithm and a face tracking algorithm. The proposed face detection algorithm basically uses the Adaboost algorithm, but the amount of search area is dramatically reduced, by using skin color and motion information in the depth map. Also, we propose a face tracking algorithm that uses a template matching method with depth information only. It also includes an early termination scheme, by a spiral search for template matching, which reduces the operation time with small loss in accuracy. It also incorporates an additional simple refinement process to make the loss in accuracy smaller. When the face tracking scheme fails to track the face, it automatically goes back to the face detection scheme, to find a new face to track. The two schemes are experimented with some home-made test sequences, and some in public. The experimental results are compared to show that they outperform the existing methods in accuracy and speed. Also we show some trade-offs between the tracking accuracy and the execution time for broader application.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2010

본 논문은 얼굴을 관심 영역(ROI)으로 사용하는 자동 초점(AF, Auto Focusing) 시스템을 위 한 얼굴 검출 기능(Face Detection)의 얼굴 추적 향상 방법에 관한 것이다. 피부색을 바탕으로 얼굴을 검출하는 기존의 얼굴 검출 기능에서는 얼굴을 추적하기 위하여 이전 프레임에 검출된 얼굴 영역에 대하여 현재 프레임의 스킨 픽셀 비율을 사용한다. 이 방법은 동영상에서 얼굴 영역의 안정성은 뛰어나지만, 얼굴 추적 성능은 다소 떨어진다. 따라서 얼굴 추적 성능을 향상 시키기 위하여, 이전 프레임에 검출된 얼굴 영역과 현재 프레임에 검출된 얼굴 영역의 겹침을 조사하여 겹치는 영역의 면적을 이용하여 얼굴을 추적하는 방법을 제안하였다. 검증을 위하여 FPGA 보드와 모바일 폰 카메라용 CIS를 이용하여 실시간으로 얼굴 검출을 촬영하였고, 검출된 얼굴의 이동 궤적을 이용하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.333-334
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• 2008

A real-time face tracking is a broad topic, covering a large spectrum of technologies and applications. Briefly face tracking is a kind of tracing technique which follows human face in any directions. It needs some algorithms such as human face detection and motion controller to track face. Moreover, both processing time and calculation time are the most important factors that influence to drive tracking system. In this paper, two algorithms are used to find human face: earn-shift algorithm and face detection algorithm using OpenCV. Fuzzy controller is utilized to move pan-tilt camera system which can move four directions along to x-y axis.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.977-984
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• 2007

동영상으로부터 움직임 분석 및 색상정보를 이용한 실시간 얼굴 추적 방법을 제안한다. 시간미분연산에 의하여 실시간으로 입력되는 동영상으로부터 움직임 영역을 검출한 후, 컬러공간 융합 필터링에 의하여 얼굴 영역 후보 화소를 검출하고 눈, 입등 얼굴 구성 요소 검출에 의하여 얼굴 영역의 실시간 추적을 행하였다. 얼굴 구성요소의 참조 템플릿을 구축한 후 신규 입력되는 연속영상의 얼굴 영역으로부터 템플릿 매칭을 행함으로써 추출된 얼굴 영역의 신뢰도를 판정하는 방법으로 얼굴 영역 추적의 안정도를 향상시켰다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.883-887
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• 2010

3D 얼굴 추적(Face tracking)은 보안감시, HCI(Human-Computer Interface), 엔터테인먼트(Entertainment)등 컴퓨터 비전과 관련된 여러 분야의 핵심 기술로서 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 하지만, 광범위한 응용분야에도 불구하고 3D 얼굴 추적의 기본적인 높은 연산 비용으로 인하여 그 응용 분야가 모바일 단말기 등의 저 사양 플랫폼에는 많은 한계가 있어왔다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 3D얼굴 추적의 연산 비용을 효과적으로 해결하고 폭 넓게 응용 분야를 확대하기 위하여 MLESAC(Maximum Likelihood Estimation by Sampling Consensus)을 이용한 움직임 추정(Motion Estimation) 기법과 기존의 파티클 필터(Particle Filter)를 결합하여 실행 속도 면에서 빠르면서도 성능 면에서도 우수한 3D 얼굴 추적 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.2067-2078
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• 2017

In this paper, a new face tracking algorithm is proposed. The CamShift (Continuously adaptive mean SHIFT) algorithm shows unstable tracking when there exist objects with similar color to that of face in the background. This drawback of the CamShift is resolved by the proposed algorithm using Kinect's pixel-by-pixel depth information and the skin detection method to extract candidate skin regions in HSV color space. Additionally, even when the target face is disappeared, or occluded, the proposed algorithm makes it robust to this occlusion by the feature point matching. Through experimental results, it is shown that the proposed algorithm is superior in tracking performance to that of existing TLD (Tracking-Learning-Detection) algorithm, and offers faster processing speed. Also, it overcomes all the existing shortfalls of CamShift with almost comparable processing time.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회 학술발표 논문집
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• pp.124-127
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• 1997

In this paper, we propose the new face detection and tracking angorithm in sequential images which have complex background. In order to apply face deteciton algorithm efficently, we convert the conventional RGB coordiantes into CIE coordonates and make the input images insensitive to luminace. And human face shapes and colors are learned using ueural network's backpropagation. For variable face size, we make mosaic size of input images vary and get the face location with various size through neural network. Besides, in sequential images, we suggest face motion tracking algorithm through image substraction processing and thresholding. At this time, for accurate face tracking, we use the face location of previous. image. Finally, we verify the real-time applicability of the proposed algorithm by the simple simulation.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2014

In the current generation of smart mobile devices, object tracking is one of the most important research topics for computer vision. Because human face tracking can be widely used for many applications, collecting a dataset of face videos is necessary for evaluating the performance of a tracker and for comparing different approaches. Unfortunately, the well-known benchmark datasets of face videos are not sufficiently diverse. As a result, it is difficult to compare the accuracy between different tracking algorithms in various conditions, namely illumination, background complexity, and subject movement. In this paper, we propose a new dataset that includes 91 face video clips that were recorded in different conditions. We also provide a semi-automatic ground-truth generation tool that can easily be used to evaluate the performance of face tracking systems. This tool helps to maintain the consistency of the definitions for the ground-truth in each frame. The resulting video data set is used to evaluate well-known approaches and test their efficiency.