• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.313-321
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• 2017

One of the most frequently performed tasks in human-robot interaction (HRI), intelligent vehicles, and security systems is face related applications such as face recognition, facial expression recognition, driver state monitoring, and gaze estimation. In these applications, accurate head pose estimation is an important issue. However, conventional methods have been lacking in accuracy, robustness or processing speed in practical use. In this paper, we propose a novel method for estimating head pose with a monocular camera. The proposed algorithm is based on a deep neural network for multi-task learning using a small grayscale image. This network jointly detects multi-view faces and estimates head pose in hard environmental conditions such as illumination change and large pose change. The proposed framework quantitatively and qualitatively outperforms the state-of-the-art method with an average head pose mean error of less than $4.5^{\circ}$ in real-time.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.38-43
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• 2016

As smart environment is spread out in our living environments, the needs of an approach related to Human Computer Interaction(HCI) is increases. One of them is head pose estimation. it related to gaze direction estimation, since head has a close relationship to eyes by the body structure. It's a key factor in identifying person's intention or the target of interest, hence it is an essential research in HCI. In this paper, we propose an approach for head pose estimation with pre-defined several directions by random forest classifier. We use canny edge detector to extract feature of the different facial image which is obtained between input image and averaged frontal facial image for extraction of rotation information of input image. From that, we obtain the binary edge image, and make two accumulated histograms which are obtained by counting the number of pixel which has non-zero value along each of the axes. This two accumulated histograms are used to feature of the facial image. We use CAS-PEAL-R1 Dataset for training and testing to random forest classifier, and obtained 80.6% accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.401-403
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• 1999

본 논문에서 우리는 제약이 없는 배경화면에서 얼굴의 움직임을 이용한 응시점 추적을 위해 얼굴의 특징점(눈, 코, 그리고 입)들을 찾고 head orientation을 구하는 효？거이고 빠른 방법을 제안한다. 얼굴을 찾는 방법이 많이 연구 되어 오고 있으나 많은 부분이 효과적이지 못하거나 제한적인 사항을 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 이진화된 이미지에 기초하고 완전 그래프 매칭을 이용한 유사성을 구하는 방법이다. 즉, 임의의 임계치 값에 의해 이진화된 이미지를 레이블링 한 후 각 쌍의 블록에 대한 유사성을 구한다. 이때 두 눈과 가장 유사성을 갖는 두 블록을 눈으로 선택한다. 눈을 찾은 후 입과 코를 찾아간다. 360$\times$240 이미지의 평균 처리 속도는 0.2초 이내이고 다음 탐색영역을 예상하여 탐색 영역을 줄일 경우 평균 처리속도는 0.15초 이내였다. 그리고 본 논문에서는 얼굴의 움직임을 구하기 위해 각 특징점들이 이루는 각을 기준으로 한 템플릿 매칭을 이용했다. 실험은 다양한 조명환경과 여러 사용자를 대상으로 이루어졌고 속도와 정확성면에서 좋은 결과를 보였다. 도한, 명안정보만을 사용하므로 흑백가메라에서도 사용가능하여 경제적 효과도 기대할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.121-122
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• 2007

실내 환경에서 사람의 행동을 인식하는 시스템을 만들 때 사람의 의도를 파악하는 것은 중요한 정보가 될 수 있다. 사람의 시선방향은 의도를 파악하는데 있어서 깊은 관계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 실내 환경에서 사람의 시선 방향을 모델에 기반하여 추정하는 방법을 제안하였다. 머리 모델은 얼굴 영역과 머리카락 영역을 포함하는 두 개의 겹쳐진 타원으로 표현되고, 각 타원의 파라미터는 시선 방향을 추정하는 정보로 사용된다. 시선 방향은 SVM(Support Vector Machine) 알고리즘을 사용하여 8방향중 하나로 추정된다. 이미지에서 얼굴영역과 머리영역은 색상 정보에 의해 검출된다. 사무실 환경에서 시선방향을 다양하게 변화시켜 실험을 하였고, 이를 통해 성능 평가를 수행하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2352-2354
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 컴퓨터의 사용자가 모니터의 스크린 상의 어느 곳을 바라보고 있는지 추정하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제시한다. 적외선 LED와 CCD카메라를 이용하는 이 방법은 기존의 방법과 다르게 5개의 적외선 LED를 사용하는데 적외선의 반사에 의해 눈의 각막에는 네 개의 밝은 점들이 나타나고 이 점을 꼭지점으로 하는 사각형 안에서 동공의 중심이 움직인다는 사실을 이용한다. 이 방법은 눈의 3차원 위치, 카메라의 위치, 모니터의 위치에 따른 관계식을 구할 필요 없이 간단한 계산으로 눈의 응시점을 찾아낼 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 여기서는 이 방법을 소개하고 실험결과를 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.180-182
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• 2021

본 논문은 눈 랜드마크 위치 검출과 시선 방향 벡터 추정이 하나의 딥러닝 네트워크로 통합된 시선 추정 네트워크를 제안한다. 제안하는 네트워크는 Stacked Hourglass Network[1]를 백본(Backbone) 구조로 이용하며, 크게 랜드마크 검출기, 특징 맵 추출기, 시선 방향 추정기라는 세 개의 부분으로 구성되어 있다. 랜드마크 검출기에서는 눈 랜드마크 50개 포인트의 좌표를 추정하며, 특징 맵 추출기에서는 시선 방향 추정을 위한 눈 이미지의 특징 맵을 생성한다. 그리고 시선 방향 추정기에서는 각 출력 결과를 조합하고 이를 통해 최종 시선 방향 벡터를 추정한다. 제안하는 네트워크는 UnityEyes[2] 데이터셋을 통해 생성된 가상의 합성 눈 이미지와 랜드마크 좌표 데이터를 이용하여 학습하였으며, 성능 평가는 실제 사람의 눈 이미지로 구성된 MPIIGaze[3] 데이터 셋을 이용하였다. 실험을 통해 시선 추정 오차는 0.0396 MSE(Mean Square Error)의 성능을 보였으며, 네트워크의 추정 속도는 42 FPS(Frame Per Second)를 나타내었다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.175-182
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• 2020

The non-contact eye tracking is a nonintrusive human-computer interface providing hands-free communications for people with severe disabilities. Recently. it is expected to do an important role in non-contact systems due to the recent coronavirus COVID-19, etc. This paper proposes a novel approach for an eye mouse using an eye tracking method based on a context-aware based AdaBoost multi-region classifier and ASSL algorithm. The conventional AdaBoost algorithm, however, cannot provide sufficiently reliable performance in face tracking for eye cursor pointing estimation, because it cannot take advantage of the spatial context relations among facial features. Therefore, we propose the eye-region context based AdaBoost multiple classifier for the efficient non-contact gaze tracking and mouse implementation. The proposed method detects, tracks, and aggregates various eye features to evaluate the gaze and adjusts active and semi-supervised learning based on the on-screen cursor. The proposed system has been successfully employed in eye location, and it can also be used to detect and track eye features. This system controls the computer cursor along the user's gaze and it was postprocessing by applying Gaussian modeling to prevent shaking during the real-time tracking using Kalman filter. In this system, target objects were randomly generated and the eye tracking performance was analyzed according to the Fits law in real time. It is expected that the utilization of non-contact interfaces.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.213-224
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• 2009

This paper presents a new algorithm for estimating a driver's physical condition using real-time vision system and performs experimentation for real facial image data. The system relies on a face recognition to robustly track the center points and sizes of person's two pupils, and two side edge points of the mouth. The face recognition constitutes the color statistics by YUV color space together with geometrical model of a typical face. The system can classify the rotation in all viewing directions, to detect eye/mouth occlusion, eye blinking and eye closure, and to recover the three dimensional gaze of the eyes. These are utilized to determine the carelessness and drowsiness of the driver. Finally, experimental results have demonstrated the validity and the applicability of the proposed method for the estimation of a driver's physical condition.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.171-177
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• 2015

A telerobot offers a more engaging and enjoyable interaction with people at a distance by communicating via audio, video, expressive gestures, body pose and proxemics. To provide its potential benefits at a reasonable cost, this paper presents a telepresence robot system for video communication which can deliver speaker's head motion through its display stanchion. Head gestures such as nodding and head-shaking can give crucial information during conversation. We also can assume a speaker's eye-gaze, which is known as one of the key non-verbal signals for interaction, from his/her head pose. In order to develop an efficient head tracking method, a 3D cylinder-like head model is employed and the Harris corner detector is combined with the Lucas-Kanade optical flow that is known to be suitable for extracting 3D motion information of the model. Especially, a skin color-based face detection algorithm is proposed to achieve robust performance upon variant directions while maintaining reasonable computational cost. The performance of the proposed head tracking algorithm is verified through the experiments using BU's standard data sets. A design of robot platform is also described as well as the design of supporting systems such as video transmission and robot control interfaces.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.266-272
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• 2013

Facial feature extraction and tracking are essential steps in human-robot-interaction (HRI) field such as face recognition, gaze estimation, and emotion recognition. Active shape model (ASM) is one of the successful generative models that extract the facial features. However, applying only ASM is not adequate for modeling a face in actual applications, because positions of facial features are unstably extracted due to limitation of the number of iterations in the ASM fitting algorithm. The unaccurate positions of facial features decrease the performance of the emotion recognition. In this paper, we propose real-time facial feature extraction and tracking framework using ASM and LK optical flow for emotion recognition. LK optical flow is desirable to estimate time-varying geometric parameters in sequential face images. In addition, we introduce a straightforward method to avoid tracking failure caused by partial occlusions that can be a serious problem for tracking based algorithm. Emotion recognition experiments with k-NN and SVM classifier shows over 95% classification accuracy for three emotions: "joy", "anger", and "disgust".