• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1824-1845
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• 2016

The GMM is a conventional approach which has been recently applied in many face recognition studies. However, the question about how to deal with illumination changes while ensuring high performance is still a challenge, especially with real-world databases. In this paper, we propose a Visual Observation Confidence (VOC) measure for robust face recognition for illumination changes. Our VOC value is a combined confidence value of three measurements: Flatness Measure (FM), Centrality Measure (CM), and Illumination Normality Measure (IM). While FM measures the discrimination ability of one face, IM represents the degree of illumination impact on that face. In addition, we introduce CM as a centrality measure to help FM to reduce some of the errors from unnecessary areas such as the hair, neck or background. The VOC then accompanies the feature vectors in the EM process to estimate the optimal models by modified-GMM training. In the experiments, we introduce a real-world database, called KoFace, besides applying some public databases such as the Yale and the ORL database. The KoFace database is composed of 106 face subjects under diverse illumination effects including shadows and highlights. The results show that our proposed approach gives a higher Face Recognition Rate (FRR) than the GMM baseline for indoor and outdoor datasets in the real-world KoFace database (94% and 85%, respectively) and in ORL, Yale databases (97% and 100% respectively).

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.449-471
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• 2012

In intelligent surveillance systems, it is required to robustly track multiple people. Most of the previous studies adopted a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for discriminating the object from the background. However, it has a weakness that its performance is affected by illumination variations and shadow regions can be merged with the object. And when two foreground objects overlap, the GMM method cannot correctly discriminate the occluded regions. To overcome these problems, we propose a new method of tracking and identifying multiple people. The proposed research is novel in the following three ways compared to previous research: First, the illuminative variations and shadow regions are reduced by an illumination normalization based on the median and inverse filtering of the L*a*b* image. Second, the multiple occluded and overlapped people are tracked by combining the GMM in the still image and the Lucas-Kanade-Tomasi (LKT) method in successive images. Third, with the proposed human tracking and the existing face detection & recognition methods, the tracked multiple people are successfully identified. The experimental results show that the proposed method could track and recognize multiple people with accuracy.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제16B권5호
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• pp.385-394
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• 2009

사람의 얼굴은 강체(Rigid object)가 아니기 때문에 얼굴을 추적하거나 인식하는 일은 쉽지 않다. 특히 얼굴의 포즈나 주변 조명의 변화에 따른 입력 영상의 차이는 얼굴 인식을 어렵게 하는 주된 원인이다. 본 논문에서는 비디오 영상으로부터 얼굴을 추적하고 인식할 때 발생하는 이 두 가지의 문제를 해결하기 위한 프레임웍과 전처리 방법을 제안한다. 얼굴 포즈의 변화에도 효과적으로 얼굴을 추적 및 인식하기 위해 먼저 학습 영상으로부터 주성분 분석법(Principal Component Analysis)을 이용하여 각 얼굴 포즈마다 하나의 독립된 가우시안 분포를 추정하고 이를 이용하여 각 사람마다 가우시안 혼합 모델(Gaussian Mixture Model)을 구성한다. 본 논문에서는 서로 다른 조명 상태를 가진 얼굴 영상을 처리하기 위해 먼저 입력된 얼굴 영상을 SSR(Single Scale Retinex) 모델을 이용하여 반사율(Reflectance)과 조도(Illuminance)로 분해한다. 반사율은 사전 정의된 범위 안에서 히스토그램 평활화를 수행함으로써 재조정되고 조도는 조명의 변화를 포함하고 있지 않은 영상들으로부터 학습된 매니폴드 모델로 다시 근사된다. 이 두 특징을 결합함으로써 실내 환경이나 실외 환경에서 촬영된 영상에서 효율적으로 얼굴을 추적 및 인식한다. 비디오 기반의 영상으로부터 보다 효율적으로 얼굴을 추적하기 위해 본 논문에서는 구성된 모델의 가중치를 각 프레임마다 이전 프레임의 추적 결과에 의해 EM 알고리즘을 이용하여 갱신함으로써 비디오 영상내의 연속적으로 변화하는 얼굴 포즈를 추정하였다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법은 실내에서의 다양한 조명환경과 실외의 여러 장소에서 획득한 실험 영상을 이용하여 기존에 연구되어 온 다른 방법에 비해 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권11호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2018

In this paper, we studied about the extraction of the parameter and implementation of speechreading system to recognize the Korean 8 vowel. Face features are detected by amplifying, reducing the image value and making a comparison between the image value which is represented for various value in various color space. The eyes position, the nose position, the inner boundary of lip, the outer boundary of upper lip and the outer line of the tooth is found to the feature and using the analysis the area of inner lip, the hight and width of inner lip, the outer line length of the tooth rate about a inner mouth area and the distance between the nose and outer boundary of upper lip are used for the parameter. 2400 data are gathered and analyzed. Based on this analysis, the neural net is constructed and the recognition experiments are performed. In the experiment, 5 normal persons were sampled. The observational error between samples was corrected using normalization method. The experiment show very encouraging result about the usefulness of the parameter.