• Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
• /
• v.9 no.2
• /
• pp.99-103
• /
• 2006

3D object recognition independent of translation and rotation using an ultrasonic sensor array, invariant moment vectors and SOFM(Self Organizing Feature Map) neural networks is presented. Using invariant moment vectors of the acquired 16×8 pixel data of square, rectangular, cylindric and regular triangular blocks, 3D objects could be classified by SOFM neural networks. Invariant moment vectors are constant independent of translation and rotation. The recognition rates for the training and testing data were 95.91% and 92.13%, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
• /
• v.13 no.3
• /
• pp.281-286
• /
• 2003

Wavelet Transform can effectively represent the local characteristics of a signal in the space-frequency domain. However, the feature vector extracted using wavelet transform is not translation invariant. This paper describes a new feature extraction method using wavelet transform, which is translation-invariant. Based on this translation-invariant feature extraction, the iris recognition method, based on this feature extraction method, is robust to noises. Experimentally, we show that the proposed method produces super performance in iris recognition.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
• /
• 2014.04a
• /
• pp.781-784
• /
• 2014

Face recognition under controlled settings, such as limited viewpoint and illumination change, can achieve good performance nowadays. However, real world application for face recognition is still challenging. In this paper, we use Affine SIFT to detect affine invariant local descriptors for face recognition under large viewpoint change. Affine SIFT is an extension of SIFT algorithm. SIFT algorithm is scale and rotation invariant, which is powerful for small viewpoint changes in face recognition, but it fails when large viewpoint change exists. In our scheme, Affine SIFT is used for both gallery face and probe face, which generates a series of different viewpoints using affine transformation. Therefore, Affine SIFT allows viewpoint difference between gallery face and probe face. Experiment results show our framework achieves better recognition accuracy than SIFT algorithm on FERET database.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
• /
• v.3 no.2
• /
• pp.88-100
• /
• 2000

The design of an automatic aircraft recognition system involves two parts. The first part is extraction of invariant features independent of scale, rotation and translation. The second part is determination of optimal decision procedures, which are needed in the classification process. In this research, we extracted invariant aircraft features regardless of size, rotation and translation using Fourier Descriptors and Zernike Moments and classified using neural networks.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
• /
• v.6 no.3
• /
• pp.247-254
• /
• 2011

This paper presents a method of sonar grid map matching for topological place recognition. The proposed method provides an effective rotation invariant grid map matching method. A template grid map is firstly extracted for reliable grid map matching by filtering noisy data in local grid map. Using the template grid map, the rotation invariant grid map matching is performed by Ring Projection Transformation. The rotation invariant grid map matching selects candidate locations which are regarded as representative point for each node. Then, the topological place recognition is achieved by calculating matching probability based on the candidate location. The matching probability is acquired by using both rotation invariant grid map matching and the matching of distance and angle vectors. The proposed method can provide a successful matching even under rotation changes between grid maps. Moreover, the matching probability gives a reliable result for topological place recognition. The performance of the proposed method is verified by experimental results in a real home environment.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
• /
• v.33B no.8
• /
• pp.30-41
• /
• 1996

This paper presents a comparative study of four pattern recognition algorithms which are invariant to translations, rotations, and scale changes of the input object; namely, object shape features (OSF), geometrica fourier mellin transform (GFMT), moment invariants (MI), and centered polar exponential transform (CPET). Pattern description is obviously one of the most important aspects of pattern recognition, which is useful to describe the object shape independently of translation, rotation, or size. We first discuss problems that arise in the conventional invariant pattern recognition algorithms, or size. We first discuss problems that arise in the coventional invariant pattern recognition algorithms, then we analyze their performance using the same criterion. Computer simulations with several distorted images show that the CPET algorithm yields better performance than the other ones.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
• /
• v.51 no.10
• /
• pp.446-452
• /
• 2002

For most of pattern recognition applications, it is required to correctly recognize patterns even if they have translation variations. In this paper, to achieve the goal of translation invariant pattern recognition, we propose a new generalized translation invariant second-order neural network using a constraint on the weights. The weight constraint is implemented using generalized translation invariant features which are accumulated sums of pixel combinations. Simulation results will be given to demonstrate that the proposed second-order neural network has the generalized translation invariant property.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
• /
• v.3 no.9
• /
• pp.375-380
• /
• 2014

Under controlled environment, such as fixed viewpoints or consistent illumination, the performance of face recognition is usually high enough to be acceptable nowadays. Face recognition is, however, a still challenging task in real world. SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transformation) algorithm is scale and rotation invariant, which is powerful only in the case of small viewpoint changes. However, it often fails when viewpoint of faces changes in wide range. In this paper, we use Affine SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transformation; ASIFT) to detect affine invariant local descriptors for face recognition under wide viewpoint changes. The ASIFT is an extension of SIFT algorithm to solve this weakness. In our scheme, ASIFT is applied only to gallery face, while SIFT algorithm is applied to probe face. ASIFT generates a series of different viewpoints using affine transformation. Therefore, the ASIFT allows viewpoint differences between gallery face and probe face. Experiment results showed our framework achieved higher recognition accuracy than the original SIFT algorithm on FERET database.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
• /
• v.11 no.4
• /
• pp.643-654
• /
• 2015

Face recognition under controlled settings, such as limited viewpoint and illumination change, can achieve good performance nowadays. However, real world application for face recognition is still challenging. In this paper, we propose using the combination of Affine Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) and Probabilistic Similarity for face recognition under a large viewpoint change. Affine SIFT is an extension of SIFT algorithm to detect affine invariant local descriptors. Affine SIFT generates a series of different viewpoints using affine transformation. In this way, it allows for a viewpoint difference between the gallery face and probe face. However, the human face is not planar as it contains significant 3D depth. Affine SIFT does not work well for significant change in pose. To complement this, we combined it with probabilistic similarity, which gets the log likelihood between the probe and gallery face based on sum of squared difference (SSD) distribution in an offline learning process. Our experiment results show that our framework achieves impressive better recognition accuracy than other algorithms compared on the FERET database.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 2003.10a
• /
• pp.1140-1145
• /
• 2003

Image normalization is one of the important areas in pattern recognition. Also, log-polar images are useful in the sense that their image data size is reduced dramatically comparing with conventional images and it is possible to develop faster pattern recognition algorithms. Especially, the log-polar image is very similar with the structure of human eyes. However, there are almost no researches on pattern recognition using the log-polar images while a number of researches on visual tracking have been executed. We propose an image normalization technique of log-polar images using momentums applicable for affine-invariant pattern recognition. We handle basic distortions of an image including translation, rotation, scaling, and skew of a log-polar image. The algorithm is experimented in a PC-based real-time vision system successfully.