• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.659-669
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• 2015

Face Recognition assumes much significance in the context of security based application. Normally, high resolution images offer more details about the image and recognizing a face from a reasonably high resolution image would be easier when compared to recognizing images from very low resolution images. This paper addresses the problem of recognizing faces from a very low resolution image whose size is as low as $8{\times}8$. With the use of CCTV(Closed Circuit Television) and with other surveillance camera-based application for security purposes, the need to overcome the shortcomings with very low resolution images has been on the rise. The present day face recognition algorithms could not provide adequate performance when employed to recognize images from VLR images. Existing methods use super-resolution (SR) methods and Relation Based Super Resolution methods to construct from very low resolution images. This paper uses a learning based super resolution method to extract and construct images from very low resolution images. Experimental results show that the proposed SR algorithm based on relationship learning outperforms the existing algorithms in public face databases.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.251-258
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• 2011

Applying face alignment after face detection exerts a heavy influence on face recognition. Many researchers have recently investigated face alignment using databases collected from images taken at close distances and with low magnification. However, in the cases of home-service robots, captured images generally are of low resolution and low quality. Therefore, previous face alignment research, such as eye detection, is not appropriate for robot environments. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a new and effective approach in the alignment of small and blurred faces. We propose a face alignment method using the confidence value of Real-AdaBoost with a modified census transform feature. We also evaluate the face recognition system to compare the proposed face alignment module with those of other systems. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a high recognition rate, higher than face alignment methods using a manually-marked eye position.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2017년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.781-784
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• 2017

얼굴인식 시스템은 비접촉데이터 채집의 특성과 함께, 그 정확도가 점차 향상되고 있다. 공공 감시카메라와 같이 사진을 멀리서 찍는 상황에서는 저해상도의 얼굴 이미지로 인해 얼굴인식 시스템을 효과적으로 사용할 수 없는 경우가 있다. 이론적으로는 저해상도영상을 Super Resolution (SR) 방법으로 고해상도 영상으로 바꾸어 얼굴인식에 사용할 수 있지만, 기존의 SR 방법들은 얼굴 인식에 만족할만한 결과를 내지 못할 수 있다. 이 논문은 극 저해상도 (very low resolution) 얼굴인식 문제를 살펴보고 편미분방정식 기반 SR 방법을 제안하고, CNN 기반 얼굴인식 시스템에 응용한다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.226-236
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• 2022

We compared and analyzed the changes in students' science grades and their effects on science grades by level (upper, middle, and lower) according to non-face-to-face and face-to-face teaching-learning. 66 students from A Middle School in Gyeongsangnam-do were selected for the study. As a result of analyzing the change in science grades according to the teaching-learning type, the average score of science grades by non-face-to-face teaching-learning was lower than the corresponding score of science grades of face-to-face teaching-learning. As a result of comparing the level of understanding of learning content according to the evaluation type (paper-written, study-paper) in non-face-to-face and face-to-face teaching-learning, the average scores of science grades by paper-written and study-paper evaluations in non-face-to-face teaching-learning were significantly low. In addition, as a result of comparing the effect on science grades by level according to the teaching-learning type, the average score of science grades of lower-ranked students in non-face-to-face teaching-learning was relatively low.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.1039-1046
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• 2015

We propose a feature generation method for low-resolution face recognition. For this, we first generate new features from the input features (pixels) of a low-resolution face image by adding the higher-order terms. Then, we evaluate the separability of both of the original input features and new features by computing the discriminant distance of each feature. Finally, new data sample used for recognition consists of the features with high separability. The experimental results for the FERET, CMU-PIE and Yale B databases show that the proposed method gives good recognition performance for low-resolution face images compared with other method.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.64-69
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• 2008

얼굴영상의 인식 기술은 보안과 감시를 비롯하여 머신 인터페이스와 콘텐츠 검색 등에서 활용이 광범위 하다. 그러나 주로 고해상도 영상이 연구의 대상이었고 원거리에서 획득된 저해상도 표적에 대하여 상대적으로 드물게 연구가 이루어졌다. 본 논문에서는 포톤 카운팅(Photon-counting) 선형판별법을 이용하여 저해상도 환경에서 얼굴영상의 인식을 수행한다. 포톤 카운팅 선형판별법은 Fisher 선형 판별법에서 발생하는 특이행렬 문제없이 Fisher의 최적화 기준을 실현한다. 즉, 차원의 축소나 특징 추출 과정 없이 고차원 공간에서 최적화된 투영을 위한 선형판별함수를 구성하고 이를 이용하여 판정하므로 저해상도 환경을 비롯한 얼굴영상의 왜곡의 극복에 효과적이다. 실험 결과는 제안한 방법이 주성분 분석을 활용하는 Eigen face 또는 주성분 분석과 Fisher 선형판별법이 결합된 Fisher face보다 우수하다는 것을 보여준다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2007

This paper proposes a technique for principal component analysis (PCA) to raise the recognition rate of a front face in a low dimension by hierarchical image and parallel processing structure. The conventional PCA shows a recognition rate of less than 50% in a low dimension (dimensions 1 to 6) when used for facial recognition. In this paper, a face is formed as images of 3 fixed-size levels: the 1st being a region around the nose, the 2nd level a region including the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the 3rd level image is the whole face. PCA of the 3-level images is treated by parallel processing structure, and finally their similarities are combined for high recognition rate in a low dimension. The proposed method under went experimental feasibility study with ORL face database for evaluation of the face recognition function. The experimental demonstration has been done by PCA and the proposed method according to each level. The proposed method showed high recognition of over 50% from dimensions 1 to 6.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.105-108
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• 2020

본 논문은 초고해상도 기법을 이용한 실시간 저해상도 얼굴 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 기존의 비대면 얼굴인식은 거리에 따라 해상도가 저하되면서 얼굴인식의 성능이 저하되는 한계가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 초고해상도 기법에 대한 연구도 진행되었으나 비대면 얼굴인식 전 과정에 대한 통합적인 설계에 관한 연구는 미흡하다. 제안한 비대면 얼굴인식은 저해상도 영상으로 키프레임 검출, 얼굴검출, 초고해상도 기법, 특징추출 및 얼굴인식 결과까지 약 2초 이내에 수행함으로써 먼 거리에서도 비대면 얼굴인식의 성능을 향상하였다. 다양한 형태의 영상에 대한 실험을 통해 제안한 방법은 기존 방법에 비해 실시간 및 성능측면에서 저해상도 얼굴 인식이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.412-420
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• 2020

This paper proposes a performance-improving face recognition system based on a super resolution method for low-resolution images. The conventional face recognition algorithm has a rapidly decreased accuracy rate due to small image resolution by a distance. To solve the previously mentioned problem, this paper generates a super resolution images based o deep learning method. The proposed method improved feature information from low-resolution images using a super resolution method and also applied face recognition using a feature extraction and an classifier. In experiments, the proposed method improves the face recognition rate when compared to conventional methods.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2009

This paper proposes a novel face detection method that finds tiny faces located at a long range even with low-resolution input images captured by a mobile robot. The proposed approach can locate extremely small-sized face regions of $12{\times}12$ pixels. We solve a tiny face detection problem by organizing a system that consists of multiple detectors including a mean-shift color tracker, short- and long-rage face detectors, and an omega shape detector. The proposed method adopts the long-range face detector that is well trained enough to detect tiny faces at a long range, and limiting its operation to only within a search region that is automatically determined by the mean-shift color tracker and the omega shape detector. By focusing on limiting the face search region as much as possible, the proposed method can accurately detect tiny faces at a long distance even with a low-resolution image, and decrease false positives sharply. According to the experimental results on realistic databases, the performance of the proposed approach is at a sufficiently practical level for various robot applications such as face recognition of non-cooperative users, human-following, and gesture recognition for long-range interaction.