• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.153-156
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• 2005

Skin region detection in images is an important process in many computer vision applications targeting humans such as hand gesture recognition and face identification. It usually starts at a pixel-level, and involves a pre-process of color spae transformation followed by a classification process. A color space transformation is assumed to increase separability between skin classes and other classes, to increase similarity among different skin tones, and to bring a robust performance under varying imaging conditions, without any complicated analysis. In this paper, we examine if the color space transformation actually brings those benefits to the problem of skin region detection on a set of human hand images with different postures, backgrounds, people, and illuminations. Our experimental results indicate that color space transfomation affects the skin detection performance. Although the performance depends on camera and surround conditions, normalized [R, G, B] color space may be a good choice in general.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.241-249
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• 2007

This paper describes a real-time face tracking system using effective detector and Kalman filter. In the proposed system, an image is separated into a background and an object using a real-time updated face color for effective face detection. The face features are extracted using the five types of simple Haar-like features. The extracted features are reinterpreted using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and interpreted principal components are used for Support Vector Machine (SVM) that classifies the faces and non-faces. The moving face is traced with Kalman filter, which uses the static information of the detected faces and the dynamic information of changes between previous and current frames. The proposed system sets up an initial skin color and updates a region of a skin color through a moving skin color in a real time. It is possible to remove a background which has a similar color with a skin through updating a skin color in a real time. Also, as reducing a potential-face region using a skin color, the performance is increased up to 50% when comparing to the case of extracting features from a whole region.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.806-817
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• 2014

The extraction of lip region is essential to Lip Reading, which is a field of image processing to get some meaningful information by the analysis of lip movement from human face image. Many conventional methods to extract lip region are proposed. One is getting the position of lip by using geometric face structure. The other discriminates lip and skin regions by using color information only. The former is more complex than the latter, however it can analyze black and white image also. The latter is very simple compared to the former, however it is very difficult to discriminate lip and skin regions because of close similarity between these two regions. And also, the accuracy is relatively low compared to the former. Conventional analysis of color coordinate systems are mostly based on specific extraction scheme for lip regions rather than coordinate system itself. In this paper, the method for selection of effective color coordinate system and chromaticity transformation to discriminate these two lip and skin region are proposed.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.10-15
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• 2012

사람 특히 얼굴 및 피부색은 칼라 영상의 화질 평가에 있어서 중요한 요소이다. 그러므로 칼라를 적용하는 장치에는 효과적으로 피부색을 보정하는 방법이 필요하다. 이전의 방법은 선호 피부색 영역의 중심 값을 기준으로 피부색을 보정하였다. 하지만 피부색에 대한 관찰자의 주관적인 평가를 통하여 선호 피부색을 조사한 결과 가장 선호하는 피부색이 선호 피부색 영역의 중심과 일치하지 않으며 또한 하나의 우세한 값을 가지지 않는다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 각 인종에 대한 다중의 선호색을 이용하여 선호 피부색으로 보정하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저, 각 인종에 대하여 밝기에 따른 다중의 선호 피부색을 결정한다. 그 후 피부색 영역을 검출하고 각 인종의 평균 피부색과 검출된 각 피부색 영역의 평균 값의 차이를 이용하여 검출된 피부색 영역에 대한 인종을 선택한다. 다음으로 각 선택된 영역에 대하여 다중의 선호피부색 중 하나의 대응되는 선호 피부색을 결정한다. 마지막으로 입력 피부색은 부드러운 피부색 재현을 위해 선택된 선호 피부색과의 차이에 비율적으로 보정된다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법과 이전 방법을 비교하였고, 주관적 평가에서 제안한 방법이 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2016

Objectives: According to Korean Medicine theory, the skin color of LU10 serves as a diagnostic clue to dyspeptic symptoms. The aims of this study were (1) to find the difference of skin color in LU10 region between functional dyspepsia (FD) and healthy control (HC) and (2) to examine the relationship between LU10 skin color parameters and dyspeptic symptoms. Methods: 39 participants (29 FD and 10 HC) have participated in this study. They were asked to complete gastrointestinal scale (GIS), gastrointestinal symptom rating scale (GSRS), Nepean dyspepsia index (NDI), functional dyspepsia-related quality of life (FD-QoL), visual analogue scale (VAS) for dyspeptic symptoms, food retention questionnaire (FRQ) and cold heat questionnaire (CHQ). $L^*$ (luminance), $a^*$ (red-green balance) and $b^*$ (yellow-blue balance) values of LU10 region were calculated through digital images of the participant's hand. Then we evaluated test-retest reliability of $L^*$, $a^*$ and $b^*$ values of LU10 region. Additionally, we compared $L^*$, $a^*$ and $b^*$ values of LU10 between FD and HC, and examined the relationship between LU10 color parameters and seven questionnaires scores. Results: Only $L^*$ values in LU10 region were significantly higher in FD compared with HC. GIS scores and the subset scores of NDI had a positive correlation with $L^*$ values significantly. Correlation coefficients of test-retest reliability of skin color measurement of LU10 ranged from 0.871 to 0.936 representing very strongly statistically significant (P<0.001). Conclusions: We confirmed the difference of skin color in LU10 region between FD and HC, and relationship between LU10 skin color parameters and dyspeptic symptoms.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2002년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.240-243
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 칼라 이미지에서 색상 요소를 기초로 하여 얼굴영역을 추출하고 얼굴의 특징요소를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 얼굴 영역을 추출하기 위하여 일반적인 얼굴색상분포를 이용하여 색상변환을 하였다. 얼굴 특성요소를 찾기 위하여 윤곽선검출을 이용하였다. 얼굴영역의 상단부분에서 눈의 요소를 찾고, 눈과 입의 지정학적 위치를 이용하여 입의 후보영역을 지정하고 입을 찾도록 하였다. 검색영역을 좁혀 계산량을 줄임으로서 탐색시간을 줄일 수 있고, 일반적인 얼굴색상분포를 이용하여 얼굴 영역을 검출함으로서 얼굴표정, 얼굴색변화, 기울짐에 대해서도 얼굴영역을 검출할 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.147-149
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• 2004

There are no authentic solutions in a face region extraction problem though it is an important part of pattern recognition and has diverse application fields. It is not easy to develop the facial region extraction algorithm because the facial image is very sensitive according to age, sex, and illumination. In this paper, to solve these difficulties, a fuzzy color filer based on the facial region extraction algorithm is proposed. The fuzzy color filter makes the robust facial region extraction enable by modeling the skin color. Especially, it is robust in facial region extraction with various illuminations. In addition, to identify the fuzzy color filter, a linear matrix inequality(LMI) optimization method is used. Finally, the simulation result is given to confirm the superiority of the proposed algorithm.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 입력되는 3차원의 정지 또는 동적인 입체영상으로부터 색상과 깊이 특징을 결합하여 인간의 피부색상 영역을 강건하게 추출하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 먼저 스테레오 정합 기법을 이용하여 입력된 좌우 영상으로부터 카메라와 물체 사이의 거리를 나타내는 깊이 특징을 강건하게 추출한다. 그런 다음, 유사한 깊이 특징을 가지는 화소들을 레이블링하고, 레이블링한 영역 중에서 인간의 피부색상 분포를 가지는 영역들을 실제적인 피부색상 영역이라고 판단한다. 실험에서는 2차원 위주의 기존의 피부영역 추출 방법과 제안된 3차원의 특징을 활용한 방법의 성능을 정확도 측면에서 비교 및 평가하였다. 그 결과 제안된 방법은 색상 특징과 깊이 특징을 효과적으로 결합함으로써 기존의 배경 영역에서 부정확하게 검출되는 피부색상 영역의 오류를 상당수 제거하는 효과를 가지며, 이로 인해 전반적으로 보다 정확하게 피부영역을 추출하였다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.10-15
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• 2012

In conventional, skin detection methods using for skin color definitions is based on prior knowledge. By experimentation, the threshold value for dividing the background from the skin region is determined subjectively. A drawback of such techniques is that their performance is dependent on a threshold value which is estimated from repeated experiments. To overcome this, the present paper introduces a skin region detection method. This method uses a histogram approximation based on the mean shift algorithm. This proposed method applies the mean shift procedure to a histogram of a skin map of the input image. It is generated by comparing with the standard skin colors in the $C_bC_r$ color space. It divides the background from the skin region by selecting the maximum value according to the brightness level. As the histogram has the form of a discontinuous function. It is accumulated according to the brightness values of the pixels. It is then, approximated by a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) using the Bezier curve technique. Thus, the proposed method detects the skin region using the mean shift procedure to determine a maximum value. Rather than using a manually selected threshold value, as in existing techniques this becomes the dividing point. Experiments confirm that the new procedure effectively detects the skin region.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.186-188
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• 2005

Hand region detection in images is an important process in many computer vision applications. It is a process that usually starts at a pixel-level, and that involves a pre-process of color space transformation followed by a classification process. A color space transformation is assumed to increase separability between skin classes for hands and non-skin classes for other parts, to increase similarity among different skin tones, and to bring a robust performance under varying illumination conditions, without any sound reasonings. In this work, we examine if the color space transformation does bring those benefits to the problem of hand region detection on a dataset of images with different hand postures, backgrounds, people, and illuminations. Results indicate that best of the color space is the normalized RGB.