• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.6000-6017
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• 2018

This paper presents a new descriptor, named Histograms of Prominent Edge Directions (HPED), for the recognition of facial expressions in a person-independent environment. In this paper, we raise the issue of sampling error in generating the code-histogram from spatial regions of the face image, as observed in the existing descriptors. HPED describes facial appearance changes based on the statistical distribution of the top two prominent edge directions (i.e., primary and secondary direction) captured over small spatial regions of the face. Compared to existing descriptors, HPED uses a smaller number of code-bins to describe the spatial regions, which helps avoid sampling error despite having fewer samples while preserving the valuable spatial information. In contrast to the existing Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) that uses the histogram of the primary edge direction (i.e., gradient orientation) only, we additionally consider the histogram of the secondary edge direction, which provides more meaningful shape information related to the local texture. Experiments on popular facial expression datasets demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed HPED against existing descriptors in a person-independent environment.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권11호
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• pp.66-72
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• 2014

Histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) 특징은 영상 기반 보행자 인식에서 널리 사용되고 있다. HOG 특징을 이용한 보행자 인식의 인식률을 높이는데 가장 중요한 역할을 하는 것은 보간 기술이다. HOG 특징 연산에 보간 기술을 적용하기 위해서는 각 픽셀의 기울기 방향에 가장 근접한 두 개의 기울기 방향 bin과 가중치를 계산해야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 HOG 특징 연산에 적용하기 위한 효율적인 기울기 방향 bin 및 가중치 연산 회로를 제안한다. 제안하는 회로는 탄젠트 함수와 나눗셈 연산을 피하기 위해 미리 계산된 값을 테이블로 지정하여 사용하였으며, 탄젠트 함수와 가중치 값의 특성을 이용함으로써 회로 내 테이블의 크기를 최소화하였다. 또한 처리 속도 향상을 위해 파이프라인 구조를 적용하였으며, 효율적인 coarse 및 fine 탐색 방법을 적용하여 각 픽셀에 대한 기울기 방향 bin과 가중치를 두 클락 사이클 내에 계산한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 회로는 $1^{\circ}$ 단위로 기울기 방향을 계산하여 기울기 방향 bin과 가중치를 모두 결정하기 때문에 HOG 특징을 위한 보간 기술에 적용되어 높은 인식률을 제공하기 위해 사용될 수 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.443-458
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• 2014

An extreme learning machine (ELM) is a recently proposed learning algorithm for a single-layer feed forward neural network. In this paper we studied the ensemble of ELM by using a bagging algorithm for facial expression recognition (FER). Facial expression analysis is widely used in the behavior interpretation of emotions, for cognitive science, and social interactions. This paper presents a method for FER based on the histogram of orientation gradient (HOG) features using an ELM ensemble. First, the HOG features were extracted from the face image by dividing it into a number of small cells. A bagging algorithm was then used to construct many different bags of training data and each of them was trained by using separate ELMs. To recognize the expression of the input face image, HOG features were fed to each trained ELM and the results were combined by using a majority voting scheme. The ELM ensemble using bagging improves the generalized capability of the network significantly. The two available datasets (JAFFE and CK+) of facial expressions were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed classification system. Even the performance of individual ELM was smaller and the ELM ensemble using a bagging algorithm improved the recognition performance significantly.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.267-274
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 별도의 센서 없이 영상만을 이용하여 실시간으로 손 영상을 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 손은 모양이 매우 복잡하기 때문에 2차원 모양의 불변량에 해당하는 에지의 방향성 히스토그램을 이용하여 인식을 행한다. 이 방법은 복잡한 배경에서 색상정보를 이용하여 손 영역이 정확히 추출되며 계산량이 적고 조명변화에 덜 민감하기 때문에 실시간 손 영상 인식에 적합하다. 본 논문에서는 손의 모양제시 방향이 변하는 경우에도 인식을 가능하게 하기 위해 주성분 분석법을 사용하여 인식오차를 줄이는 방법을 기술한다. 이 방법을 사용함으로써 손 영상이 3차원적으로 회전에 의해 변하는 경우도 인식가능하게 되었다. 또한 에지방향성 데이터를 이용하기에 주성분 공간 생성 시간을 현저히 줄이게 되었다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.307-315
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• 2000

For the autonomy of a mobile robot it is first needed to know its position and orientation. Various methods of estimating the position of a robot have been developed. However, it is still difficult to localize the robot without any initial position or orientation. In this paper we present the method how to make the colored map and how to calculate the position and direction of a robot using the angle data of an omnidirectional image. The wall of the map is rendered with the corresponding color images and the color histograms of images and the coordinates of feature points are stored in the map. Then a mobile robot gets the color omnidirectional image at arbitrary position and orientation, segments it and recognizes objects by multiple color indexing. Using the information of recognized objects robot can have enough feature points and localize itself.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2009

청소로봇이나 경비로봇과 같이 실내에서 이동하며 작업하는 로봇에서는 센서를 통한 환경의 인식이 필수적이다. 사무실 빌딩이나 공동주택의 경우 기본적인 환경이 동일하므로 설계도와 같은 공통된 지도를 이용하면 개별 환경마다 지도를 재작성하는 것보다 유리한 점이 있다. 이때 가구나 장애물 등 위치가 바뀔 수 있는 대상의 정보는 제거하고, 벽, 문, 창 등 불변의 대상을 인식하는 것이 중요하다. 이 논문에서는 사무실이나 가정환경에서 사용할 수 있는 실험용 이동로봇을 구현하고, 레이저스캐너의 정보와 세그먼트의 방향, 위치에 의한 히스토그램 방법을 이용하여 이와 같은 불변의 특징을 추출한다. 로봇에는 레이저스캐너, 자이로 센서, 초음파 센서, 적외선 센서 등이 탑재되며 제어프로그램은 C 프로그램으로 작성되었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.138.3-138
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• 2001

Because face has non-rigid structure and is influenced by illumination, we need robust face detection algorithm with the variations of external environments (orientation of lighting and face, complex background, etc.). In this paper we develop a new face detection algorithm to achieve robustness. First we transform RGB color into other color space, in which we can reduce lighting effect much. Second, hierarchical image segmentation technique is used for dividing a image into homogeneous regions. This process uses not only color information, but also spatial information. One of them is used in segmentation by histogram analysis, the other is used in segmentation by grouping. And we can select face region among the homogeneous regions by using facial features.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2003

This paper presents the development of the Inspection machine for SMD mounted on cream solder of PCB. There are mounting errors of SMD such as misalignment, missing part, wrong orientation, wrong polarity and so on. The main hardware of the system consists of a machine vision part and a motion control part. Operating software has been developed in GUI environment to help user convenience. The Inspection Jobs consist of two procedures, that is, creation of the inspection reference data and automatic inspection. The Inspection reference data has a tree structure of linked list including PCB information, blocks, components, windows, and inspection methods. This paper presents versatile inspection methods which include a section length method, a projection method and histogram method. Therefore, user can choose the suitable procedure for various components. Finally, the automatic Inspection procedure using the reference data checks the mounting errors of components.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2008

This paper presents an approach to Back-propagation and Radial Basis Function neural network method with various training set for automatic vehicle detection from aerial images. The initial extraction of candidate object is based on Mean-shift algorithm with symmetric property of a vehicle structure. By fusing the density and the symmetry, the method can remove the ambiguous objects and reduce the cost of processing in the next stage. To extract features from the detected object, we describe the object as a log-polar shape histogram using edge strengths of object and represent the orientation and distance from its center. The spatial histogram is used for calculating the momentum of object and compensating the direction of object. BPNN and RBFNN are applied to verify the object as a vehicle using a variety of non-car training sets. The proposed algorithm shows the results which are according to the training data. By comparing the training sets, advantages and disadvantages of them have been discussed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1991년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 22-24 Oct. 1991
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• pp.979-983
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• 1991

A novel 2-dimensional matched filter of the parallel-jaw type using fuzzy logics is proposed for bin picking. Specifically, averaged pixel intensity of the windowed region for the filtering is considered to be fuzzy. Also membership function for darkness and brightness are designed by employing the intensite histogram of image. Then a rule is given to know how much a windowed region can be a possible holdsite. Furthermore eight rules are made to determine the part orientation, where Mamadi's resoning method is applied. To show the validities of our proposed technique. some experimental results are illustrated and compared with the results by conventional matched filter technique.