• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.07a
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• pp.507-508
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• 2022

현재 코로나-19로 인해 많은 사람들이 실내외 사진 촬영에 대한 불편함을 호소하며, 2022년 5월 기준 야외 마스크에 대한 의무 착용이 해제되었지만, 여전히 야외에서 마스크를 착용하는 사람들이 대다수 존재한다. 또한 코로나 발생 후 약 2, 3년간 소중한 가족들 및 지인들과의 찍은 중요한 사진들이 마스크를 착용한 채 그대로 남아있다. 본 논문에서는 파노라마 기술인 Image Stitching 기술을 활용하여 마스크 제거 사진 생성 연구에 대해 기술한다. 본 연구를 통해 사용자들의 실내외 마스크 착용 시 촬영에 대한 불편함을 해소하고 이전 마스크 착용 사진들을 복원함으로써 만족감을 높일 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.271-286
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• 2023

The global COVID-19 pandemic has transformed face masks from situational accessories to indispensable items in daily life, prompting a shift in public perception and behavior. While the relaxation of mandatory mask-wearing regulations is underway, a significant number of individuals continue to embrace face masks, turning them into a form of personal expression and identity. This phenomenon has given rise to the Fashion Mask industry, characterized by unique designs and colors, experiencing rapid growth in the market. However, existing research on masks is predominantly focused on their efficacy in preventing infection or exploring attitudes during the pandemic, leaving a gap in understanding consumer preferences for mask design. We address this gap by investigating consumer perceptions and preferences for two prevalent mask designs-horizontal fold flat masks and vertical fold flat masks. Through a comprehensive approach involving surveys and eye-tracking experiments, we aim to unravel the subtle differences in how consumers perceive these designs. Our research questions focus on determining which design is more appealing and exploring the reasons behind any observed differences. The study's findings reveal a clear preference for vertical fold flat masks, which are not only preferred but also perceived as unique, sophisticated, three-dimensional, and lively. The eye-tracking analysis provides insights into the visual attention patterns associated with mask designs, highlighting the pivotal role of the fold line in influencing these patterns. This research contributes to the evolving understanding of masks as a fashion statement and provides valuable insights for manufacturers and marketers in the Fashion Mask industry. The results have implications beyond the pandemic, emphasizing the importance of design elements in sustaining consumer interest in face masks.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.139-146
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• 2008

Masked fake face detection using ordinary visible images is a formidable task when the mask is accurately made with special makeup. Considering recent advances in special makeup technology, a reliable solution to detect masked fake faces is essential to the development of a complete face recognition system. This research proposes a method for masked fake face detection that exploits reflectance disparity due to object material and its surface color. First, we have shown that measuring of albedo can be simplified to radiance measurement when a practical face recognition system is deployed under the user-cooperative environment. This enables us to obtain albedo just by grey values in the image captured. Second, we have found that 850nm infrared light is effective to discriminate between facial skin and mask material using reflectance disparity. On the other hand, 650nm visible light is known to be suitable for distinguishing different facial skin colors between ethnic groups. We use a 2D vector consisting of radiance measurements under 850nm and 659nm illumination as a feature vector. Facial skin and mask material show linearly separable distributions in the feature space. By employing FIB, we have achieved 97.8% accuracy in fake face detection. Our method is applicable to faces of different skin colors, and can be easily implemented into commercial face recognition systems.

• Information Display
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.60-67
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• 2001

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.999-1010
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• 2022

The increase in vehicle purchases worldwide is having a very significant impact on the availability of parking spaces. In particular, since it is difficult to secure a parking space in an urban area, it may be of great help to the driver to check vehicle parking information in advance. However, the current parking lot information is still operated semi-manually, such as notifications. Therefore, in this study, we propose a system for detecting a parking space using a relatively simple image processing method based on an image taken from the sky and evaluate its performance. The proposed method first converts the captured RGB image into a black-and-white binary image. This is to simplify the calculation for detection using discrete information. Next, a morphological operation is applied to increase the clarity of the binary image, and a template mask in the form of a bounding box indicating a parking space is applied to check the parking state. Twelve image samples and 2181 total of test, were used for the experiment, and a threshold of 40% was used to detect each parking space. The experimental results showed that information on the availability of parking spaces for parking users was provided with an accuracy of 95%. Although the number of experimental images is somewhat insufficient to address the generality of accuracy, it is possible to confirm the possibility of parking space detection with a simple image processing method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.252-253
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.208-208
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• 2004

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.2199-2205
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• 2013

In modern society the image processing has been applied to various digital devices such as smartphone, digital camera, and digital TV. In the field of image processing the edge detection is one of the important parts in the image processing procedure. The image edge means point that the pixel value is changed between background and object rapidly, and includes the important information such as magnitude, location, and orientation. The performance of the existing edge detection method is insufficient for the image degraded by AWGN(additive white Gaussian noise) because it detects edges by using small weighted masks. Therefore, in this paper, to detect edge in AWGN environment effectively, we proposed an algorithm that detects edge as calculated gradient of sorting vector which is transformed by estimated mask from new pixel according to each region.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.1445-1454
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• 2006

To compress a specific part of an image with high quality or to transfer it, JPEG2000 standard offers an ROI(Region-of-Interest) image coding method. What is important in ROI coding is to process relative importance between ROI and background and to process ROI mask. We propose an adaptive ROI coding method supplemented the existing Implicit ROI coding and Modified implicit ROI coding to improve image quality and reduce ROI mask information. The proposed method is an EBCOT-based ROI coding that extracts ROI from the compressed bitstream, and gets the ROI mask information by classifying the codeblocks into 6 patterns. The information includes the pattern type(3bit) and the width(5bit) expressing the boundary between two regions for each codeblock. As a result, the method shows an excellent compression performance in ROI region as well as in the whole region of an image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.109-117
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• 2014

This paper presents a superresolution restoration technique that can restore high-resolution images from differently blurred low resolution images rather than using the motion information between low-resolution images. In order to restore the super-resolution image the rotatable aperture mask lens system is proposed. The proposed technique does not need to estimate point spread function at each frame. In addition, it does not require image registration because there is no global translational motion between low resolution images. By using a rotatable rectangular aperture, two consecutive captured images provide sufficiently exclusive information for superresolution. Therefore, the proposed method can reduce the registration error between the low-resolution image as well as the calculation amount for superresolution restoration. The existing lens system of the camera can be extended to obtain a superresolution image by only adding an rotatable rectangular aperture mask. Finally, in order to verify the performance of the proposed system, experimental results are performed. By comparing with the existing superresolution methods, the proposed method showed the significant improvements in the sense of spatial resolution.