• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.705-711
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• 2003

An automatic face and facial feature points(FFPs) detection system is proposed. A face is represented as a graph where the nodes are placed at facial feature points(FFPs) labeled by their Gabor features and the edges are describes their spatial relations. An innovative flexible feature matching is proposed to perform features correspondence between models and the input image. This matching model works likes random diffusion process in !be image space by employing the locally competitive and globally corporative mechanism. The system works nicely on the face images under complicated background, pose variations and distorted by facial accessories. We demonstrate the benefits of our approach by its implementation on the face identification system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.608-612
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• 2002

An automatic face and facial feature points(FFPs) detection system is proposed. A face is represented as a graph where the nodes are placed at facial feature points(FFPs) labeled by their Gabor features md the edges are describes their spatial relations. An innovative flexible feature matching is proposed to perform features correspondence between models and the input image. This matching model works likes random diffusion process in the image spare by employing the locally competitive and globally corporative mechanism. The system works nicely on the face images under complicated background, pose variations and distorted by facial accessories. We demonstrate the benefits of our approach by its implementation on the fare identification system.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.151-157
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• 2012

Recently, owing to the technology advances in computer science and image processing, age of face classification have become prevalent topics. It is difficult to estimate age of facial shape with statistical figures because facial shape of the person should change due to not only biological gene but also personal habits. In this paper, we proposed a robust age of face classification method by using Gabor feature and fuzzy support vector machine(SVM). Gabor wavelet function is used for extracting facial feature vector and in order to solve the intrinsic age ambiguity problem, a fuzzy support vector machine(FSVM) is introduced. By utilizing the FSVM age membership functions is defined. Some experiments have conducted to testify the proposed approach and experimental results showed that the proposed method can achieve better age of face classification precision.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.147-153
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• 2017

Efficient texture representation is very important in computer vision fields. The performance of texture classification or/and segmentation can be improved based on efficient texture representation. Gabor filter is a representation method that has long history for texture representation based on multi-scale analysis. Gabor filter shows good performance in texture classification and segmentation but requires much processing time. In this paper, we propose new texture representation method that is also based on multi-scale analysis. The proposed representation can provide similar performance in texture classification but can reduce processing time against Gabor filter. Experimental results show good performance of our method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.1125-1134
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new approach for rotation invariant texture classification based on Gabor wavelet. Conventional methods have the low correct classification rate in large texture database. In our proposed method, we define two feature groups which are the global feature vector and the local feature matrix. The feature groups are output of Gabor wavelet filtering. By using the feature groups, we defined an improved discriminant and obtained high classification rates of large texture database in the experiments. From spectrum symmetry of texture images, the number of test times were reduced nearly 50%. Consequently, the correct classification rate is improved with $2.3%{\sim}15.6%$ values in 112 Brodatz texture class, which may vary according to comparison methods.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.821-827
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• 2009

Human emotion can be reflected by their facial expressions. So, it is one of good ways to understand people's emotions by recognizing their facial expressions. General recognition system of facial expressions had selected interesting points, and then only extracted features without analyzing physical meanings. They takes a long time to find interesting points, and it is hard to estimate accurate positions of these feature points. And in order to implement a recognition system of facial expressions on real-time embedded system, it is needed to simplify the algorithm and reduce the using resources. In this paper, we propose a real-time recognition algorithm of facial expressions that project the grid points on an expression space based on Gabor wavelet feature. Facial expression is simply described by feature vectors on the expression space, and is classified by an neural network with its resources dramatically reduced. The proposed system deals 5 expressions: anger, happiness, neutral, sadness, and surprise. In experiment, average execution time is 10.251 ms and recognition rate is measured as 87~93%.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11c
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• pp.751-753
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 영상의 텍스쳐 정보를 이용하여 일반 영상에 대한 내용기반 영상 검색을 수행할 수 있는 알고리듬을 제안한다. Gabor 웨이브렛 변환을 이용하여 Gabor 필터 뱅크 내의 각 필터에 의해 필터링된 대역의 평균과 표준편차를 영상의 특징 벡터(Gabor Texture Feature)로 추출하여 영상들간의 유사성을 계산하는데 사용한다. 논문의 목적이 영상에 가해진 외적 변형, 즉 잡음 첨가, 블러링, 샤프닝 등과 같은 변형에 강인하게 동작할 수 있는 텍스쳐 특징 기반 영상 검색 기법을 제안하는 것이므로, 기존의 Gabor 필터만을 사용하여 텍스쳐 특징을 추출하여 검색의 기준으로 삼을 경우에 발생할 수 있는 주파수 성분의 변화에 대한 민감성을 Daubechies의 웨이브렛 필터를 사용하여 낮은 해상도에서 영상을 해석함으로써, 외적 변형에 대하여도 강인하게 동작할 수 있는 알고리듬을 제시하였다. 기존의 텍스쳐를 이용한 검색이 주로 텍스쳐 영역(textured region)에 대한 해석만을 하였지만, 본 논문에서는 이를 일반 영상에 적용하였으며, 일반 영상에 대해서도 효율적인 검색을 수행할 수 있음을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2595-2597
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• 2002

오늘날 많은 디지털 저장 매체의 발달로 방대한 양의 영상 데이터가 데이터베이스화 되고 있으며 이러한 데이터베이스에서 필요한 영상 데이터론 효율적으로 검색하는 방범이 중요한 문제로 대두되고 있다. 현재 영상의 색상, 형태 및 질감 특성을 사용하여 다양한 영상 검색 방법이 제안되고 있으며 본 연구에선 이중 질감을 특징으로 하는 Gator 특징 벡터를 사용하고자 한다. 즉, 영상의 인터레스트 포인트를 찾아내어 그 점에서 Gabor 웨이블릿을 이용하여 특징 벡터를 추출하고 VQ를 기반으로 한 히스토그램 인터섹션 방법을 이용하여 영상 검색을 한다. 기존의 Gator 웨이블릿 방법은 영상의 회전에 대해 잘 동작하지 못하는 단점을 가지고 있으며 이는 회전 영상에 대한 검색율 저하에 크게 작용한다. 이 문제를 해결하고자 본 논문에선 회전 불변 Gabor 필터를 이용한 영상 검색 방법을 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.808-816
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• 2012

Face recognition has been actively studied and developed in various fields. In recent years, interest point extraction algorithms mainly used for object recognition were being applied to face recognition. The SURF(Speeded Up Robust Features) algorithm was used in this paper which was one of typical interest point extraction algorithms. Generally, the interest points extracted from human faces are less distinctive than the interest points extracted from objects due to the similar shapes of human faces. Thus, the accuracy of the face recognition using SURF tends to be low. In order to improve it, we propose a face recognition algorithm which performs interest point extraction by SURF and the Gabor wavelet transform to extract descriptors from the interest points. In the result, the proposed method shows around 23% better recognition accuracy than SURF-based conventional methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.11C
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• pp.1510-1517
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• 2004

A new fingerprint image enhancement algorithm using multiresolution information and Gabor filter is proposed in this paper. The proposed algorithm performs selection of the region in image according to inclusion of singular points and then performs enhancement using Gabor filtering of the region adjusted in its size. Gabor filter using representative direction in the same block is used in the region that the direction of ridge is not changed much, while Gabor filter using pixel based direction is used in the region that the direction of ridge is changed much. This method can reduce processing time for enhancement using Gabor filter and preserve the merit of Gabor filter.