• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2008

This paper presents a new approach of recognizing a 3D object using a single camera, based on the extended convex hull of its silhouette. It aims at minimizing the DB size and simplifying the processes for matching and feature extraction. For this purpose, two concepts are introduced: extended convex hull and measurable region. Extended convex hull consists of convex curved edges as well as convex polygons. Measurable region is the cluster of the viewing vectors of a camera represented as the points on the orientation sphere from which a specific set of surfaces can be measured. A measurable region is represented by the extended convex hull of the silhouette which can be obtained by viewing the object from the center of the measurable region. Each silhouette is represented by a relation graph where a node describes an edge using its type, length, reality, and components. Experimental results are included to show that the proposed algorithm works efficiently even when the objects are overlapped and partially occluded. The time complexity for searching the object model in the database is O(N) where N is the number of silhouette models.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.178-183
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• 2008

Human motion analysis is researched as a new method for human-robot interaction (HRI) because it concerns with the key techniques of HRI such as motion tracking and pose recognition. To analysis human motion, extracting features of human body from sequential images plays an important role. After finding the silhouette of human body from the sequential images obtained by CCD color camera, the skeleton model is frequently used in order to represent the human motion. In this paper, using the silhouette of human body, we propose the feature extraction method based on hybrid skeleton for detecting human motion. Finally, we show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method through some experiments.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 실내 환경에서 동적 스테레오 카메라(active stereo camera)를 이용한 새로운 인체 실루엣 추출 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘의 주된 응용분야는 이동 로봇 플랫폼에서의 인체 실루엣을 이용한 제스처 인식이다. 먼 거리에서 움직이는 객체를 분할(segmentation)하는 데에는 저해상도, 그림자, 스테레오 정합의 불확실성, 배경과 객체의 색 분포의 불안정성 등과 같은 다양한 문제를 내포한다. 우리는 먼저 이미지 분할 기법과 스테레오 정보를 이용하여 신뢰도 높은 객체와 배경 영역을 추정하였다. 이렇게 추정된 영역을 적절히 그래프 컷(graph cut)에 활용하는 방식을 고안함으로써 주변 환경의 변화에 강인한 인체 실루엣 추출을 가능하게 하였다. 제안한 방식은 실내에서 펜-틸트(pan-tilt) 스테레오 카메라로 획득된 비디오 데이타를 대상으로 실험하였으며, 색, 색과 스테레오, 색과 대비 정보를 기반으로 한 방법들과 비교 실험한 결과 정확도가 많이 향상된 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1857-1862
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• 2016

Human activity recognition using depth information is an emerging and challenging technology in computer vision due to its considerable attention by many practical applications such as smart home/office system, personal health care and 3D video games. This paper presents a novel framework of 3D human body detection, tracking and recognition from depth video sequences using spatiotemporal features and modified HMM. To detect human silhouette, raw depth data is examined to extract human silhouette by considering spatial continuity and constraints of human motion information. While, frame differentiation is used to track human movements. Features extraction mechanism consists of spatial depth shape features and temporal joints features are used to improve classification performance. Both of these features are fused together to recognize different activities using the modified hidden Markov model (M-HMM). The proposed approach is evaluated on two challenging depth video datasets. Moreover, our system has significant abilities to handle subject's body parts rotation and body parts missing which provide major contributions in human activity recognition.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.124-131
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• 2013

Extraction and representation of postures and/or gestures from human activities in videos have been a focus of research in this area of action recognition. With various applications cropping up from different fields, this paper seeks to improve the performance of these action recognition machines by proposing a shape-based silhouette-edge descriptor for the human body. Information entropy, a method to measure the randomness of a sequence of symbols, is used to aid the selection of vital key postures from video frames. Morphological operations are applied to extract and stack edges to uniquely represent different actions shape-wise. To classify an action from a new input video, a Hausdorff distance measure is applied between the gallery representations and the query images formed from the proposed procedure. The method is tested on known public databases for its validation. An effective method of human action annotation and description has been effectively achieved.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.1473-1480
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• 2018

The extraction and recognition of human motion characteristics need to combine biometrics to determine and judge human behavior in the movement and distinguish individual identities. The so-called biometric technology, the specific operation is the use of the body's inherent biological characteristics of individual identity authentication, the most noteworthy feature is the invariance and uniqueness. In the past, the behavior recognition technology based on the single characteristic was too restrictive, in this paper, we proposed a mixed feature which combined global silhouette feature and local optical flow feature, and this combined representation was used for human action recognition. And we will use the KTH database to train and test the recognition system. Experiments have been very desirable results.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2008년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.192-195
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 발전하는 3D 그래픽스 기술을 이용하여 문화재의 도면 실루엣을 생성하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 3D 스캐너로 정밀 실측된 3D 데이터를 이용하여 문화재의 도면을 생성하기 위한 벡터 실루엣(Silhouette) 추출 과정은 다음과 같다. 먼저 실측된 3D 데이터를 정규화 된 3D공간으로 이동하고, 이동 후에는 데이터에 존재하는 모든 에지(edge)를 검출하여 에지리스트(edge list)를 생성한다. 생성된 에지리스트는 다시 윤곽에지(Contour edge)와 주름에지(Crease edge)로 분류하는데, 윤곽에지는 문화재의 윤곽 실루엣을 형성하는데 이용하고, 윤곽에지를 제외한 주름에지는 문화재의 표면 특징을 나타내는 내부문양 실루엣을 형성하는데 이용한다. 내부문양 실루엣은 사용자가 입력하는 임계값과 주름에지를 구성하는 두면의 방향 벡터의 내적을 비교하여 추출한다. 추출한 벡터 실루엣은 윤곽 실루엣과 내부문양 실루엣으로 구분되며, 두 벡터 실루엣을 이용함으로써 문화재의 구조적 해석과 표면의 특징을 해석할 수 있는 도면 실루엣 생성이 가능했다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2118-2125
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• 2014

Gait Recognition is a new technique to identify the people by the way they walk. Human gait is a spatio-temporal phenomenon that typifies the motion characteristics of an individual. The proposed method makes a simple but efficient attempt to gait recognition. For each video file, spatial silhouettes of a walker are extracted by an improved background subtraction procedure using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). Here GMM is used as a parametric probability density function represented as a weighted sum of Gaussian component densities. Then, the relevant features are extracted from the silhouette tracked from the given video file using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method. The Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis (FLDA) classifier is used in the classification of dimensional reduced image derived by the PCA method for gait recognition. Although gait images can be easily acquired, the gait recognition is affected by clothes, shoes, carrying status and specific physical condition of an individual. To overcome this problem, it is combined with footprint as a multimodal biometric system. The minutiae is extracted from the footprint and then fused with silhouette image using the Discrete Stationary Wavelet Transform (DSWT). The experimental result shows that the efficiency of proposed fusion algorithm works well and attains better result while comparing with other fusion schemes.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2002

컴퓨터 그래픽스 및 애니메이션에서 물체의 윤곽선 계산은 많은 응용분야에서 빈번히 사용되고 있으며, 윤곽선의 효율적인 계산 방법은 현재까지 많은 연구자들의 관심을 끌어왔다. 본 논문에서는 이동하는 관측점에 대해 다면체 모델의 투시 윤곽선을 계산하는 효율적인 알고리즘을 제시한다. 관측점이 시간에 따라 이동하는 경로는 시간을 나타내는 매개변수 t를 이용하여 곡선 q(t)로 표현한다. 다면체의 각 에지(edge)가 윤곽선에 포함되는 시간 간격 (time-interval)은 에지에 인접한 두 면의 supporting plane들과 q(t)의 교점 계산, 그리고 몇 차례의 벡터 내적을 수행함으로써 구해진다. 곡선 q(t)가 차수 n의 곡선이라면, 한 에지가 윤곽선에 포함되는 시간 간격은 최대 n + 1 개 존재할 수 있다. 미리 구해진 시간 간격들에 대해 고정된 시점 $t_i$를 포함하는 시간 간격들을 검색함으로써 관측점이 $q(t_i)$일 때 모델의 윤곽선에 포함되는 모든 에지를 구할 수 있다. 윤곽선 계산의 효율성은 시간 간격을 저장하는 자료구조 (data structure)와 밀접한 관련이 있으므로, 시간 간격을 저장하는 자료구조로서 인터벌 트리 (interval tree)의 사용을 제안한다. 또한, 제시된 알고리즘에 의해 윤곽선을 계산한 실험결과를 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1856-1869
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• 2015

This paper addresses the issues of 3D human activity detection, tracking and recognition from RGB-D video sequences using a feature structured framework. During human tracking and activity recognition, initially, dense depth images are captured using depth camera. In order to track human silhouettes, we considered spatial/temporal continuity, constraints of human motion information and compute centroids of each activity based on chain coding mechanism and centroids point extraction. In body skin joints features, we estimate human body skin color to identify human body parts (i.e., head, hands, and feet) likely to extract joint points information. These joints points are further processed as feature extraction process including distance position features and centroid distance features. Lastly, self-organized maps are used to recognize different activities. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is reliable and efficient in recognizing human poses at different realistic scenes. The proposed system should be applicable to different consumer application systems such as healthcare system, video surveillance system and indoor monitoring systems which track and recognize different activities of multiple users.