• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.214-216
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• 2006

Expressive face and human body gestures are among the main non-verbal communication channels in human-human interaction. Understanding human emotions through body gesture is one of the necessary skills both for humans and also for the computers to interact with their human counterparts. Gesture analysis is consisted of several processes such as detecting of hand, extracting feature, and recognizing emotions. Skin color information for tracking hand gesture is obtained from face detection region. We have revealed relationships between paricular body movements and specific emotions by using HMM(Hidden Markov Model) classifier. Performance evaluation of emotional human body recognition has experimented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.516-520
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• 2007

This paper presents a intuitive, simple and easy smart home TV remote control system using the hand gesture recognition. Hand candidate regions are detected by cascading policy of the part of human anatomy on the disparity map image, Exact hand region is extracted by the graph-cuts algorithm using the skin color information. Hand postures are represented by shape features which are extracted by a simple shape extraction method. We use the forward spotting accumulative HMMs for a smart home TV remote control system. Experimental results show that the proposed system has a good recognition rate of 97.33 % for TV remote control in real-time.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.256-261
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• 2000

디지털 방송, 웹의 발전으로 내용 기반 검색, 비디오 인덱싱, 비디오 검색 등의 시스템들이 많이 연구, 개발되고 있으며, 이러한 시스템에서는 사람을 주제로 검색하는 요구가 많이 발생한다. 대부분의 얼굴 영역 추출 및 인식 시스템들은 질감, 모양, 움직임, 칼라 등의 특징들을 이용하는데, 이들 중 칼라 특징은 기존 시스템의 첫 번째 처리 단계에서 많이 사용된다. 하지만, 복잡한 배경, 조명, 화장(make up), 잡영들 때문에 미리 정의된 단일 칼라 임계값을 이용하여 얼굴 영역과 비 얼굴 영역으로 구분하면 정확한 추출 결과를 얻기 힘들다는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는, 점진적으로 피부색 영역을 확장시키면서 얼굴 영역을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 이때 확장 단계에서 얼굴 영역을 판단하기 위해, 일굴 각 기관들의 위치적 정보를 사용하였다. 얼굴 기관은 눈과 입을 사용했는데, 여러 가지 요인으로 인해 이들을 정확하게 추출하기가 어렵기 때문에, 각 단계에서 얼굴 후보 영역 내부의 수평 방향성을 가지는 경계를 눈과 입의 영역으로 간주했다. 실험을 통해, 제안한 방법이 하이라이트(highlight)에 의해 얼굴 영역의 일부가 왜곡된 경우와 얼굴 영역이 피부색과 유사한 배경에 인접해 있는 경우에 대해서도 강인하게 얼굴 영역을 추출할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.415-422
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• 2011

In this paper, we present a novel vision-based method of recognizing finger actions for use in electronic appliance interfaces. Human skin is first detected by color and consecutive motion information. Then, fingertips are detected by a novel scale-invariant angle detection based on a variable k-cosine. Fingertip tracking is implemented by detected region-based tracking. By analyzing the contour of the tracked fingertip, fingertip parameters, such as position, thickness, and direction, are calculated. Finger actions, such as moving, clicking, and pointing, are recognized by analyzing these fingertip parameters. Experimental results show that the proposed angle detection can correctly detect fingertips, and that the recognized actions can be used for the interface with electronic appliances.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07d
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• pp.2720-2722
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• 2000

This paper proposes a face detection and recognition method that combines the template matching method and the eigenface method with the neural network. In the face extraction step, the skin color information is used. Therefore, the search region is reduced. The global property of the face is achieved by the eigenface method. Face recognition is performed by a neural network that can learn the face property.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.6C
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• pp.815-823
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• 2004

A hue-based attention operator and a combinational integral projection function(CIPF) are proposed to extract the normalized regions of face and facial features robustly against illumination variation. The face candidate regions are efficiently detected by using skin color filter, and the eyes are located accurately nil robustly against illumination variation by applying the proposed hue- and symmetry-based attention operator to the face candidate regions. And the faces are confirmed by verifying the eyes with the color-based eye variance filter. The proposed CIPF, which combines the weighted hue and intensity, is applied to detect the accurate vertical locations of the eyebrows and the mouth under illumination variations and the existence of mustache. The global face and its local feature regions are exactly located and normalized based on these accurate geometrical information. Experimental results on the AR face database［8］ show that the proposed eye detection method yields better detection rate by about 39.3% than the conventional gray GST-based method. As a result, the normalized facial features can be extracted robustly and consistently based on the exact eye location under illumination variations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.389-392
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• 2010

In this paper, it presents to detect location using structural information of hand from the input color images on Webcam and to recognize hand gestures. In this system, based on the skin color, the image changes a binary number and labels. Within each labeled area, we can find the Maximum Inscribed Circle using Voronoi Diagram. This circle can find the center of hand. And the circle extracts hand region from analyzing the ellipse elements to relate Maximum Inscribed Circle. We use the Maximum Inscribed Circle and the ellipse elements as characteristic of hand gesture recognition. In various environments, we cannot recognize the object that have similar colors like the background colors. But the proposed algorithm has the advantage that can be effectively eliminated about it.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.427-439
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• 2008

This paper proposes a novel method to convert monoscopic soccer videos to stereoscopic videos. Through the soccer video analysis process, we detect shot boundaries and classify soccer frames into long shot or non-long shot. In the long shot case, the depth mapis generated relying on the size of the extracted ground region. For the non-long shot case, the shot is further partitioned into three types by considering the number of ground blocks and skin blocks which is obtained by a simple skin-color detection method. Then three different depth assignment methods are applied to each non-long shot types: 1) Depth estimation by object region extraction, 2) Foreground estimation by using the skin block and depth value computation by Gaussian function, and 3)the depth map generation for shots not containing the skin blocks. This depth assignment is followed by stereoscopic image generation. Subjective evaluation comparing generated depth maps and corresponding stereoscopic images indicate that the proposed algorithm can yield the sense of depth from a single view images.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.65-71
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• 2014

This paper present the multi-modal user distance estimation system using mono camera and mono microphone basically equipped with a mobile device. In case of a distance estimation method using an image, we is estimated a distance of the user through the skin color region extraction step, a noise removal step, the face and eyes region detection step. On the other hand, in case of a distance estimation method using speech, we calculates the absolute difference between the value of the sample of speech input. The largest peak value of the calculated difference value is selected and samples before and after the peak are specified as the ROI(Region of Interest). The samples specified perform FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) and calculate the magnitude of the frequency domain. Magnitude obtained is compared with the distance model to calculate the likelihood. We is estimated user distance by adding with weights in the sorted value. The result of an experiment using the multi-modal method shows more improved measurement value than that of single modality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.165-170
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• 2003

This paper presents an integrated approach to unconstrained face recognition in arbitrary scenes. The front end of the system comprises of a scale and pose tolerant face detector. Scale normalization is achieved through novel combination of a skin color segmentation and log-polar mapping procedure. Principal component analysis is used with the multi-view approach proposed in[10] to handle the pose variations. For a given color input image, the detector encloses a face in a complex scene within a circular boundary and indicates the position of the nose. Next, for recognition, a radial grid mapping centered on the nose yields a feature vector within the circular boundary. As the width of the color segmented region provides an estimated size for the face, the extracted feature vector is scale normalized by the estimated size. The feature vector is input to a trained neural network classifier for face identification. The system was evaluated using a database of 20 person's faces with varying scale and pose obtained on different complex backgrounds. The performance of the face recognizer was also quite good except for sensitivity to small scale face images. The integrated system achieved average recognition rates of 87% to 92%.