• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.236-247
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• 2010

Recently, mean shift tracking algorithms have been proposed which use the information of color histogram together with some spatial information provided by the kernel. In spite of their fast speed, the algorithms are suffer from an inherent instability problem which is due to the use of an isotropic kernel for spatiality and the use of the Bhattacharyya coefficient as a similarity function. In this paper, we analyze how the kernel and the Bhattacharyya coefficient can arouse the instability problem. Based on the analysis, we propose a novel tracking scheme that uses a new representation of the location of the target which is constrained by the color, the area, and the spatiality information of the target in a more stable way than the mean shift algorithm. With this representation, the target localization in the next frame can be achieved by one step computation, which makes the tracking stable, even in difficult situations such as low-rate-frame environment, and partial occlusion.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.610-619
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• 2015

*In this paper, we propose a real-time face tracking system using an adaptive face detector and a tracking algorithm. An image is divided into the regions of background and face candidate by a real-time updated skin color identifying system in order to accurately detect facial features. The facial characteristics are extracted using the five types of simple Haar-like features. The extracted features are reinterpreted by Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and the interpreted principal components are processed by Support Vector Machine (SVM) that classifies into facial and non-facial areas. The movement of the face is traced by Kalman filter and Mean shift, which use the static information of the detected faces and the differences between previous and current frames. The proposed system identifies the initial skin color and updates it through a real-time color detecting system. A similar background color can be removed by updating the skin color. Also, the performance increases up to 20% when the background color is reduced in comparison to extracting features from the entire region. The increased detection rate and speed are acquired by the usage of Kalman filter and Mean shift.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.56-63
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• 2007

In this paper, an eye tracking method is presented using a neural network (NN) and mean-shift algorithm that can accurately detect and track user's eyes under the cluttered background. In the proposed method, to deal with the rigid head motion, the facial region is first obtained using skin-color model and con-nected-component analysis. Thereafter the eye regions are localized using neural network (NN)-based tex-ture classifier that discriminates the facial region into eye class and non-eye class, which enables our method to accurately detect users' eyes even if they put on glasses. Once the eye region is localized, they are continuously and correctly tracking by mean-shift algorithm. To assess the validity of the proposed method, it is applied to the interface system using eye movement and is tested with a group of 25 users through playing a 'aligns games.' The results show that the system process more than 30 frames/sec on PC for the $320{\times}240$ size input image and supply a user-friendly and convenient access to a computer in real-time operation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.34-40
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• 2008

This paper presents a vision based walking robot control system using hand shape recognition. To recognize hand shapes, the accurate hand boundary needs to be tracked in image obtained from moving camera. For this, we use an active contour model-based tracking approach with mean shift which reduces dependency of the active contour model to location of initial curve. The proposed system is composed of four modules: a hand detector, a hand tracker, a hand shape recognizer and a robot controller. The hand detector detects a skin color region, which has a specific shape, as hand in an image. Then, the hand tracking is performed using an active contour model with mean shift. Thereafter the hand shape recognition is performed using Hue moments. To assess the validity of the proposed system we tested the proposed system to a walking robot, RCB-1. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.358-359
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• 2018

In this paper, opencv and android studio are used to distinguish between objects ahead of the blind. When the movement is detected in a positive direction in connection with the camera of the smartphone, the user is informed that the part of the camera is being rabelified and continues to track using the mean shift algorithm. A C ++ program based on OpenCV-based was used for real-time motion observation and the application will be produced by android studio. As a result of the study, objects that move with Labeling are identified and the box area is specified using the mean shift algorithm to move the box along with the object to track objects in real time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.729-732
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 실시간 영상에서 움직임 검출 및 추적에 관련한 기본 기술들을 나열하고 구현하여 구현 가능성 및 성능에 대하여 검증을 진행하였다. 움직임 검출에는 배경 차영상 기법에 의한 움직임 및 변화 영역 검출 방법과 움직임 히스토리에 의한 움직임 검출법, 광류에 의한 움직임 검출법이 있으며 이를 구현하여 검증하였다. 또한 움직임 추적의 경우에는 추적하려는 물체의 히스토그램의 역투영을 이용하면서 물체의 중심점을 추적하는 MeanShift와 물체의 중심, 크기, 방향을 함께 추적하는 CamShift가 있고 Kalman 필터에 의한 움직임 추적을 구현하여 검증하였다. 구현된 방법을 통하여 보안용의 영상감시 장비의 추적 시스템 및 GPS 좌표를 기반으로하여 비행체를 추적하면서 통신링크를 유지하는 추적안테나 시스템에 적용하므로서 제어의 정확도를 높일 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.137-140
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• 2006

본 논문은 급격한 컬러 변화를 보이는 물체를 추적하기 위해 새로운 알고리즘에 대해서 기술하였다. 이를 수행하기 위해 컬러기반의 추적 알고리즘인 Mean Shift를 개선하여 적용한다. 지존의 Mean Shift 알고리즘은 물체 추적을 위해 컬러 분포 정보를 설정한다. 하지만 초기의 컬러 분포 정보가 사라질 경우 물체 추적을 정확히 수행하기 힘들다는 문제점을 안고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위해 Mean Shift를 개선하여, 추적 대상의 컬러 정보를 반복적으로 업데이트하여 초기의 컬러 정보가 사라지더라도 추적이 가능하도록 개선하였다. 개선된 추적 알고리즘은 시간에 따라 초기의 컬러 분포 정보가 완전히 사라지더라도 실시간 추적이 가능하도록 구현하였다. 이를 입증하기 위해 본 논문의 실험에서는 실험적인 환경에서 급격한 컬러 변화를 보이는 간단한 문제의 추적과 실생활에서의 예를 함께 보여준다.

• Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.81-90
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• 2007

The effort identifying positioning information of the moving object in real time has been a issue not only in sport biomechanics but also other academic areas. In order to solve this issue, this study tried to track the movement of a pitched ball that might provide an easier prediction because of a clear focus and simple movement of the object. Machine learning has been leading the research of extracting information from continuous images such as object tracking. Though the rule-based methods in artificial intelligence prevailed for decades, it has evolved into the methods of statistical approach that finds the maximum a posterior location in the image. The development of machine learning, accompanied by the development of recording technology and computational power of computer, made it possible to extract the trajectory of pitched baseball from recorded images. We present a method of baseball tracking, based on object tracking methods in machine learning. We introduce three state-of-the-art researches regarding the object tracking and show how we can combine these researches to yield a novel engine that finds trajectory from continuous pitching images. The first research is about mean shift method which finds the mode of a supposed continuous distribution from a set of data. The second research is about the research that explains how we can find the mode and object region effectively when we are given the previous image's location of object and the region. The third is about the research of representing data into features that we can deal with. From those features, we can establish a distribution to generate a set of data for mean shift. In this paper, we combine three works to track baseball's location in the continuous image frames. From the information of locations from two sets of images, we can reconstruct the real 3-D trajectory of pitched ball. We show how this works in real pitching images.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1307-1317
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• 2018

To deal with the problems of occlusion, pose variations and illumination changes in the object tracking system, a regression model weighted multi-templates mean-shift (MS) algorithm is proposed in this paper. Target templates and occlusion templates are extracted to compose a multi-templates set. Then, the MS algorithm is applied to the multi-templates set for obtaining the candidate areas. Moreover, a regression model is trained to estimate the Bhattacharyya coefficients between the templates and candidate areas. Finally, the geometric center of the tracked areas is considered as the object's position. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on several classical videos. The experimental results show that the regression model weighted multi-templates MS algorithm can track an object accurately in terms of occlusion, illumination changes and pose variations.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.4
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• pp.682-691
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose the fusion design methodology of both pedestrian detection and object tracking system realized with the aid of HOG-PCA based RBFNN pattern classifier. The proposed system includes detection and tracking parts. In the detection part, HOG features are extracted from input images for pedestrian detection. Dimension reduction is also dealt with in order to improve detection performance as well as processing speed by using PCA which is known as a typical dimension reduction method. The reduced features can be used as the input of the FCM-based RBFNNs pattern classifier to carry out the pedestrian detection. FCM-based RBFNNs pattern classifier consists of condition, conclusion, and inference parts. FCM clustering algorithm is used as the activation function of hidden layer. In the conclusion part of network, polynomial functions such as constant, linear, quadratic and modified quadratic are regarded as connection weights and their coefficients of polynomial function are estimated by LSE-based learning. In the tracking part, object tracking algorithms such as mean shift(MS) and cam shift(CS) leads to trace one of the pedestrian candidates nominated in the detection part. Finally, INRIA person database is used in order to evaluate the performance of the pedestrian detection of the proposed system while MIT pedestrian video as well as indoor and outdoor videos obtained from IC&CI laboratory in Suwon University are exploited to evaluate the performance of tracking.