• Journal of KIISE
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.666-673
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• 2014

This paper proposes a scalable face recognition method for unconstrained face databases, and shows a simple experimental result. Existing face recognition research usually has focused on improving the recognition rate in a constrained environment where illumination, face alignment, facial expression, and background is controlled. Therefore, it cannot be applied in unconstrained face databases. The proposed system is face feature extraction algorithm for unconstrained face recognition. First of all, we extract the area that represent the important features(landmarks) in the face, like the eyes, nose, and mouth. Each landmark is represented by a high-dimensional LBP(Local Binary Pattern) histogram feature vector. The multi-scale LBP histogram vector corresponding to a single landmark, becomes a low-dimensional face feature vector through the feature reduction process, PCA(Principal Component Analysis) and LDA(Linear Discriminant Analysis). We use the Rank acquisition method and Precision at k(p@k) performance verification method for verifying the face recognition performance of the low-dimensional face feature by the proposed algorithm. To generate the experimental results of face recognition we used the FERET, LFW and PubFig83 database. The face recognition system using the proposed algorithm showed a better classification performance over the existing methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a face detection system using the Support Vector Domain Description (SVDD) in color images. Conventional face detection algorithms require a training procedure using both face and non-face images. In SVDD however we employ only face images for training. We can detect faces in color images from the radius and center pairs of SVDD. We also use Entropic Threshold for extracting the facial feature and sliding window for improved performance while saving processing time. The experimental results indicate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm compared to conventional PCA (Principal Component Analysis)-based methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.3_4
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• pp.372-378
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• 2003

Limitations on the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) for face rerognition, such as the loss of generalization and the computational infeasibility, are addressed and illustrated for a small number of samples. The principal component analysis (PCA) followed by the LDA mapping may be an alternative that ran overcome these limitations. We also show that any schemes based on either mappings or template matching are vulnerable to image variations due to rotation, translation, facial expressions, or local illumination conditions. This entails the importance of a proper preprocessing that can compensate for such variations. A simple template matching, when combined with the geometrically correlated feature-based detection as a preprocessing, is shown to outperform mapping techniques in terms of both the accuracy and the robustness to image variations.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.583-586
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• 1999

In this paper, the wavelet transform is performed in the input 256$\times$256 color image and decomposes a image into low-pass and high-pass components. Since the high-pass band contains the components of three directions, edges are detected by combining three parts. After finding the position of face using the histogram of the edge component, a face region in low-pass band is cut off. Since RGB color image is sensitively affected by luminances, the image of low pass component is normalized, and a facial region is detected using face color informations. As the wavelet transform decomposes the detected face region into three layer, the dimension of input image is reduced. In this paper, we use the 3000 images of 10 persons, and KL transform is applied in order to classify face vectors effectively. FCM(Fuzzy C-Means) algorithm classifies face vectors with similar features into the same cluster. In this case, the number of cluster is equal to that of person, and the mean vector of each cluster is used as a codebook. We verify the system performance of the proposed algorithm by the experiments. The recognition rates of learning images and testing image is computed using correlation coefficient and Euclidean distance.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.31-40
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• 2012

Face recognition refers to the process of identifying individuals based on their facial features. It has recently become one of the most popular research areas in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition because it spans numerous consumer applications, such as access control, surveillance, security, credit-card verification, and criminal identification. However, illumination variation on face generally cause performance degradation of face recognition systems under practical environments. Thus, this paper proposes an novel face recognition system using a fusion approach based on local binary pattern and two-dimensional principal component analysis. To minimize illumination effects, the face image undergoes the local binary pattern operation, and the resultant image are divided into two sub-images. Then, two-dimensional principal component analysis algorithm is separately applied to each sub-images. The individual scores obtained from two sub-images are integrated using a weighted-summation rule, and the fused-score is utilized to classify the unknown user. The performance evaluation of the proposed system was performed using the Yale B database and CMU-PIE database, and the proposed method shows the better recognition results in comparison with existing face recognition techniques.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.81-88
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• 1999

A fibrin adhesive have been widely used in oral and maxillofacial surgery for microvascular anastomosis, autogenous chip bone grafts, many kinds of soft tissue surgery (vestibuloplasty, bleeding control after extraction, primary healing by covering of suture of a gum after the extirpation of large cysts). There are two principal components in adhesive systems biologically: lyophilized human fibrinogen and bovine thrombin. The fibrinogen component contains coagulation factor XIII and enhance the initial wound healing, which polymerizes soluble fibrin monomers into an insoluble clot. The thrombin is dissolved in a solution of calcium chloride to provide the second component. We applied fibrin adhesive, Beriplast (Behring, Behringwerke AG, D-3350, Marburg, FRD), to 4 patients for fixation of free skin grafting donors who had facial scar around eye, nose, mouth corner which received from accidents, or burn. We have experienced initial accelerated graft fixation between donor and recipient sites with no additional fixation. And It's made easy bleeding control and easy manipulation during operation. But two cases showed partial hypertrophic scar engrowth in above 3 months follow up, but no significant. Histopathological reviews in general were showed similar scar findings such as abundant collagen bundles in H&E, M/T stain, but slight positive signs in elastic and collagen antibody immunopathologic findings in hypertrophic scar cases.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.6
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• pp.797-803
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• 2014

In this paper, 3D face recognition system is designed by using polynomial based on RBFNNs. In case of 2D face recognition, the recognition performance reduced by the external environmental factors such as illumination and facial pose. In order to compensate for these shortcomings of 2D face recognition, 3D face recognition. In the preprocessing part, according to the change of each position angle the obtained 3D face image shapes are changed into front image shapes through pose compensation. the depth data of face image shape by using Multiple Point Signature is extracted. Overall face depth information is obtained by using two or more reference points. The direct use of the extracted data an high-dimensional data leads to the deterioration of learning speed as well as recognition performance. We exploit principle component analysis(PCA) algorithm to conduct the dimension reduction of high-dimensional data. Parameter optimization is carried out with the aid of PSO for effective training and recognition. The proposed pattern classifier is experimented with and evaluated by using dataset obtained in IC & CI Lab.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.378-383
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• 2020

Viola & Jones' object detection algorithm is a very good algorithm for the face component(FC) detection, but there are still problems such as duplicate detection, false detection and non-detection due to parameter setting. This paper proposes an improved FC detection algorithm that applies the variable parameter to reduce non-detection and the verification to reduce duplicate detection and false detection to the Viola & Jones' algorithm. The proposed algorithm reduces the non-detection by changing the parameter value of the Viola & Jones' algorithm until the potential valid FCs are detected, and eliminates the duplicate detection and the false detection by using the verification that evaluates size, position, and uniqueness of the detected FCs. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm includes valid FCs in the detected objects and then detects only the valid FCs by removing invalid FCs from them.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.295-298
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 사람의 얼굴표정을 통해 4개의 기본감정(기쁨, 슬픔, 화남, 놀람)에 대한 특징을 추출하고 인식하여 그 결과를 이용하여 감정표현 시스템을 구현한다. 먼저 주성분 분석(Principal Component Analysis)법을 이용하여 고차원의 영상 특징 데이터를 저차원 특징 데이터로 변환한 후 이를 선형 판별 분석(Linear Discriminant Analysis)법에 적용시켜 좀 더 효율적인 특징벡터를 추출한 다음 감정을 인식하고, 인식된 결과를 얼굴 표현 시스템에 적용시켜 감정을 표현한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.333-336
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 감정인식 분야에서 가장 많이 사용되어지는 음성신호와 얼굴영상을 가지고 4개의(기쁨, 슬픔, 화남, 놀람) 감정으로 인식하고 각각 얻어진 감정인식 결과를 Multi modal 기법을 이용해서 이들의 감정을 융합한다. 이를 위해 얼굴영상을 이용한 감정인식에서는 주성분 분석(Principal Component Analysis)법을 이용해 특징벡터를 추출하고, 음성신호는 언어적 특성을 배재한 acoustic feature를 사용하였으며 이와 같이 추출된 특징들을 각각 신경망에 적용시켜 감정별로 패턴을 분류하였고, 인식된 결과는 감정표현 시스템에 작용하여 감정을 표현하였다.