• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.419-423
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• 2008

사람의 손동작은 오랫동안 하나의 언어역할을 하는 통신 수단으로 사용되어 왔다. 이러한 손동작 중에서 가장 체계를 갖춘 수화는 청각장애인이 일반인과 일상 대화를 할 수 있도록 도와주는 주요한 통신 수단이다. 하지만 건청인들의 대부분이 습득하고 있지 않아 청각장애인들과 의사소통이 거의 불가능 한 것이 현실이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 건청인과 청각장애인들 간의 의사소통을 원활하게 하기 위해 색상 정보와 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘을 이용한 실시간 수화 인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 화상 카메라를 통해 얻어진 실시간 영상에서 YCbCr 컬러 공간에서 색차 정보에 해당하는 Cb, Cr 정보를 각각 추출한 후, 이진화한 영상과 원본 영상에서 마스크를 통한 에지를 추출한 이진화 영상에 대해 논리연산을 통해 두 손의 위치와 외곽을 추출한다. 추출된 각 정보를 조합하여 8 방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 객체의 위치를 추적한다. 그리고 추적한 객체의 영역에 대해 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 잡음을 제거한 후, 최종적으로 두 손의 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손의 영역은 퍼지 클러스터링 기법 중의 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하여 수화의 특징들을 분류하고 인식한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 화상카메라를 통해 얻어진 실시간 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 두 손 영역의 추출에 효과적이고 수화 인식에 있어서 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.610-622
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• 2008

Moving object segmentation is an essential technique for various video surveillance applications. The result of moving object segmentation often contains shadow regions caused by the color difference of shadow pixels. Hence, moving object segmentation is usually followed by a shadow elimination process to remove the false detection results. The common assumption adopted in previous works is that, under the illumination variation, the value of chromaticity components are preserved while the value of intensity component is changed. Hence, color transforms which separates luminance component and chromaticity component are usually utilized to remove shadow pixels. In this paper, various color spaces (YCbCr, HSI, normalized rgb, Yxy, Lab, c1c2c3) are examined to find the most appropriate color space for shadow elimination. So far, there have been some research efforts to compare the influence of various color spaces for shadow elimination. However, previous efforts are somewhat insufficient to compare the color distortions under illumination change in diverse color spaces, since they used a specific shadow elimination scheme or different thresholds for different color spaces. In this paper, to relieve the limitations of previous works, (1) the amount of gradients in shadow boundaries drawn to uniform colored regions are examined only for chromaticity components to compare the color distortion under illumination change and (2) the accuracy of background subtraction are analyzed via RoC curves to compare different color spaces without the problem of threshold level selection. Through experiments on real video sequences, YCbCr and normalized rgb color spaces showed good results for shadow elimination among various color spaces used for the experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.350-356
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• 2017

With increasing attention to real-time body detection, active research is being conducted on human body detection based on skin color. Despite this, most existing skin detection methods utilize static skin color models and have detection rates in images, in which colors are distorted. This study proposed a method of detecting the skin region using a fuzzy classification of the gradient map, saturation, and Cb and Cr in the YCbCr space. The proposed method, first, creates a gradient map, followed by a saturation map, CbCR map, fuzzy classification, and skin region binarization in that order. The focus of this method is to rigorously detect human skin regardless of the lighting, race, age, and individual differences, using features other than color. On the other hand,the borders between these features and non-skin regions are unclear. To solve this problem, the membership functions were defined by analyzing the relationship between the gradient, saturation, and color features and generate 108 fuzzy rules. The detection accuracy of the proposed method was 86.35%, which is 2~5% better than the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.197-202
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 퍼지 신경회로망을 사용하여 영상에서 물체를 배경으로부터 추출해내는 방법을 제시하였다. 퍼지 신경회로망의 vigilance parameter를 조정하여 영상을 2개의 클래스로 분류하고, 물체 영역과 배경영역의 Cb와 Cr의 대표값을 추출하였다. 제안한 방법을 사용하여 물체색상의 위치 및 크기와 밝기에 상관없이 물체영역을 추출하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.1456-1464
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• 2007

The research of skin-tone detection has been conducting continuously to enlarge the importance in security, surveillance and administration of the information and 'Password Control System' for using face and skin recognition in airports, harbors and general companies. As well as tile rapid diffusion of the application range in image communications and an electron transaction using wide range of communication network, the importance of the accurate detection of skin color has been augmenting recently. In this paper, it will set up the boundaries of skin colors using the information of Cb and Cr in YCbCr color model of human skin color which is from hundreds compiled portrait images for each race, and suggest a efficient yet simple structure about the skin detection which has been followed by whether the comprehension of the boundaries of skin or not with adaptive skin-range set. With the possibility of the 1D Processes which does not use any memory, it is able to be applied to relatively small-sized hardware and system such as mobile apparatuses. To add the selective mode, it is not only available the improvement of tie skin detection, but also showing the correspondent results about previous face recognition technologies using complicated algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.20-27
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• 2010

This paper proposes a saturation compensating method by embedding pseudo-random code information in wavelet packet based colorization algorithm. In the color-to-gray process, an input RGB image is converted into YCbCr images, and a 2-level wavelet packet transform is applied to the Y image. And then, color components of CbCr are embedded into two sub-bands including minimum amount of energy on the Y image. At this time, in order to compensate the color saturations of the recovered color image during the printing and scanning process, the maximum and minimum values of CbCr components of an original image are also embedded into the diagonal-diagonal sub-band by a form of pseudo-random code. This pseudo-random code has the maximum and minimum values of an original CbCr components, and is expressed by the number of white pixels. In the gray-to-color process, saturations of the recovered color image are compensated using the ratio of the original CbCr values to the extracted CbCr values. Through the experiments, we can confirm that the proposed method improves color saturations in the recovered color images by the comparison of color difference and PSNR values.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.353-358
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• 2008

청각장애인들은 건청인에 비해 의사소통의 기회가 적어 원만한 상호관계를 유지하는데 어려움이 있다. 이러한 문제는 청각장애인들이 구화를 대신해 몸짓이나 손짓을 이용하여 의사를 전달하는 수화를 건청인들이 대부분 습득하고 있지 않아 청각장애인들과 의사소통이 거의 불가능 한 것이 현실이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 건청인과 청각장애인들 간의 의사소통을 가능하게 하기 위한 전단계로 FCM 알고리즘을 이용한 지화 인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 화상 카메라를 통해 얻어진 영상에서 YCbCr 컬러 공간과 HSI 컬러 공간을 이용하여 피부영역을 검출한 후 추출된 피부영역을 4 방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 두 손의 위치를 추적한다. 그리고 추적한 두 손의 영역에 대해 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 잡음을 제거한 후, 최종적으로 두 손의 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손의 영역은 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하여 지화의 특징들을 분류하고 인식한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 화상카메라에서 획득한 지화 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 두 손 영역의 추출과 지화 인식에 있어서 효과적인 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.461-472
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose face feature extraction algorithm through stereo image's matching value. The proposed algorithm detected face region by change the RGB color space of skin color information to the YCbCr color space. Applying eye-template from extracted face region geometrical feature vector of feature about distance and lean, nose and mouth between eye extracted. And, Proposed method could do feature of eyes, nose and mouth through stereo image's matching as well as 2D feature information extract. In the experiment, the proposed algorithm shows the consistency rate of 73% in distance within about 1m and the consistency rate of 52%in distance since about 1m.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.280-285
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• 2008

The traditional face detection method is to use difference picture method are used to detect movement. However, most do not consider this mathematical approach using real-time or real-time implementation of the algorithm is complicated, not easy. This paper, the first to detect real-time facial image is converted YCbCr and RGB video input. Next, you convert the difference between video images of two adjacent to obtain and then to conduct Glassfire Labeling. Labeling value compared to the threshold behavior Area recognizes and converts video extracts. Actions to convert video to conduct face detection, and detection of facial characteristics required for the extraction and use of AdaBoost algorithm.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.111-118
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• 2014

In tangible augmented reality (AR) environments, the user interacts with virtual objects by manipulating their physical counterparts, but he or she often encounters awkward situations in which his or her hands are occluded by the augmented virtual objects, which causes great difficulty in figuring out hand positions, and reduces both immersion and ease of interaction. To solve the problem of such hand occlusion, skin color information has been usefully exploited. In this paper, we propose an approach to simple and effective construction of a skin color map which is suitable for hand segmentation and tangible AR interaction. The basic idea used herein is to obtain hand images used in a target AR environment by simple image subtraction and to represent their color information by a convex polygonal map in the YCbCr color space. We experimentally found that the convex polygonal map is more accurate in representing skin color than a conventional rectangular map. After implementing a solution for resolving hand occlusion using the proposed skin color map construction, we showed its usefulness by applying it to virtual design evaluation of digital handheld products in a tangible AR environment.