• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.691-698
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• 2008

We present a novel method for face detection and recognition methods applicable to video retrieval. The person matching efficiency largely depends on how robustly faces are detected in the video frames. Face regions are detected in video frames using viola-jones features boosted with the Adaboost algorithm After face detection, PCA (Principal Component Analysis) follows illumination compensation to extract features that are classified by SVM (Support Vector Machine) for person identification. Experimental result shows that the matching efficiency of the ensembled architecture is quit satisfactory.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.9
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• pp.113-127
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• 2012

Face detection methods using image processing have been proposed in many different ways. Generally, the most widely used method for face detection is an Adaboost that is proposed by Viola and Jones. This method uses Haar-like feature for image learning, and the detection performance depends on the learned images. It is well performed to detect face images within a certain distance range, but if the image is far away from the camera, face images become so small that may not detect them with the pre-learned Haar-like feature of the face image. In this paper, we propose the far distance face detection method that combine the Aadaboost of Viola-Jones with a saliency map and user's attention information. Saliency Map is used to select the candidate face images in the input image, face images are finally detected among the candidated regions using the Adaboost with Haar-like feature learned in advance. And the user's eye-tracking information is used to select the interest regions. When a subject is so far away from the camera that it is difficult to detect the face image, we expand the small eye gaze spot region using linear interpolation method and reuse that as input image and can increase the face image detection performance. We confirmed the proposed model has better results than the conventional Adaboost in terms of face image detection performance and computational time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.226-229
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• 2011

얼굴검출기술의 발전으로 인하여, 다양한 분야에 얼굴 검출을 활용한 기술이 이용되고 있다. 최근 Viola 와 Jones 의 얼굴검출 방법이 신뢰도 있는 검출률과 빠른 연산속도로 인하여 주로 이용되고 있다. 하지만 고해상도 이미지와 제한된 하드웨어를 사용하는 시스템의 경우, 실시간 처리가 어려워지는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제를 해결하고자 거리 정보를 이용한 빠른 얼굴검출방법을 제안한다. 속도 개선을 위해 먼저 거리 정보를 이용하여 영상의 불필요한 부분을 제거하고, 피부색상정보를 이용하여 관심영역을 설정한다. 또 크기에 대응하기 위해 피라미드 이미지를 이용하는 방법 대신, 거리 정보를 이용하여 얼굴의 크기를 추정한다. 마지막으로 검색창 내의 거리 분산을 계산하여, 평평하거나 굴곡이 심한 영역을 제거함으로 얼굴 검출 속도를 개선하였다. 실험결과 기존 방법에 비해 더 빠른 검출속도와 유사한 검출성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2012

In this paper, we present an effective viewpoint estimation algorithm for the Moving parallax barrier method of 3D display mobile device. Moving parallax barrier is designed to overcome the biggest problem, the limited view angle. To accomplish it, the position of the viewer's eyes or face should be estimated with strong stability and no latency. We focus on these requirements in the poor performance of mobile processors. We used a pre-processing algorithm in order to overcome the various illumination changes. And, we combined the conventional Viola-Jones face detection method and Optical-flow algorithm for robust and stable viewpoint estimation. Various computer simulations prove the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.664-665
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• 2019

본 연구는 Eye Tracking을 사용하여 시선에 따라 마우스 커서를 이동시키는 연구이다. 이를 바탕으로 마우스를 사용하기 어려움이 있는 사용자에게도 마우스를 조작할 수 있도록 도움을 줄 목적으로 연구되었다. 본 논문에서 세 가지 기술을 사용한다. Viola-jones algorithm을 사용해 얼굴과 눈을 찾는다. 이후 찾은 부분에서 CDF Method로 동공을 인식해 해당 좌표 값을 윈도우 마우스 드라이버에게 전달한다. 전달한 값을 통해 마우스 커서를 눈의 움직임에 따라 이동시킨다. 추가적으로 마우스와 같은 역할을 할 수 있도록 눈의 깜빡임을 활용하여 클릭 기능도 추가할 것이다.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.155-160
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• 2016

Applying image processing techniques to education, the face of the learner is photographed, and expression and movement are detected from video, and the system which estimates degree of concentration of the learner is developed. For one learner, the measuring system is designed in terms of estimating a degree of concentration from direction of line of learner's sight and condition of the eye. In case of multiple learners, it must need to measure each concentration level of all learners in the classroom. But it is inefficient because one camera per each learner is required. In this paper, position in the face region is estimated from video which photographs the learner in the class by the difference between frames within the motion direction. And the system which detects the face direction by the face part detection by template matching is proposed. From the result of the difference between frames in the first image of the video, frontal face detection by Viola-Jones method is performed. Also the direction of the motion which arose in the face region is estimated with the migration length and the face region is tracked. Then the face parts are detected to tracking. Finally, the direction of the face is estimated from the result of face tracking and face parts detection.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.548-559
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• 2009

The cascade face detector learned by Adaboost algorithm, which was proposed by Viola and Jones, is state of the art face detector due to its great speed and accuracy. In spite of its great performance, it still suffers from false alarms, and more computation is required to reduce them. In this paper, we want to reduce false alarms with less computation using facial color. Using facial color information, proposed face detection model scans sub-window efficiently and adapts a fast face/non-face classifier at the first stage of cascade face detector. This makes face detection faster and reduces false alarms. For facial color filtering, we define a facial color membership function, and facial color filtering image is obtained using that. An integral image is calculated from facial color filtering image. Using this integral image, its density of subwindow could be obtained very fast. The proposed scanning method skips over sub-windows that do not contain possible faces based on this density. And the face/non-face classifier at the first stage of cascade detector rejects a non-face quickly. By experiment, we show that the proposed face detection model reduces false alarms and is faster than the original cascade face detector.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1150-1158
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• 2010

In this study, the Polynomial-based Radial Basis Function Neural Networks is proposed as one of the recognition part of overall face recognition system that consists of two parts such as the preprocessing part and recognition part. The design methodology and procedure of the proposed pRBFNNs are presented to obtain the solution to high-dimensional pattern recognition problem. First, in preprocessing part, we use a CCD camera to obtain a picture frame in real-time. By using histogram equalization method, we can partially enhance the distorted image influenced by natural as well as artificial illumination. We use an AdaBoost algorithm proposed by Viola and Jones, which is exploited for the detection of facial image area between face and non-facial image area. As the feature extraction algorithm, PCA method is used. In this study, the PCA method, which is a feature extraction algorithm, is used to carry out the dimension reduction of facial image area formed by high-dimensional information. Secondly, we use pRBFNNs to identify the ID by recognizing unique pattern of each person. The proposed pRBFNNs architecture consists of three functional modules such as the condition part, the conclusion part, and the inference part as fuzzy rules formed in 'If-then' format. In the condition part of fuzzy rules, input space is partitioned with Fuzzy C-Means clustering. In the conclusion part of rules, the connection weight of pRBFNNs is represented as three kinds of polynomials such as constant, linear, and quadratic. Coefficients of connection weight identified with back-propagation using gradient descent method. The output of pRBFNNs model is obtained by fuzzy inference method in the inference part of fuzzy rules. The essential design parameters (including learning rate, momentum coefficient and fuzzification coefficient) of the networks are optimized by means of the Particle Swarm Optimization. The proposed pRBFNNs are applied to real-time face recognition system and then demonstrated from the viewpoint of output performance and recognition rate.