• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

일반적으로 동적 손동작 인식을 위해서는 전처리, 손 추적, 손 모양 검출의 단계가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 전처리와 손 모양 검출 방법을 개선함으로써 성능을 향상시킨 동적 손동작 인식 방법을 제안한다. 전처리 단계에서는 동적테이블을 이용하여 노이즈제거 성능을 높이고, YCbCr 컬러공간을 이용한 기존의 피부색 검출 방식에서 피부색의 범위를 조절할 수 있도록 하여 피부색 검출 성능을 높인다. 특히 손 모양 검출 단계에서는 가이드라인을 이용하여 동적 손동작 인식의 요소인 시작이미지(Start Image)와 정지 이미지(Stop Image)를 검출하여 동적 손동작을 인식하기 때문에 학습예제를 사용한 손동작 인식 방법에 비해 인식 속도가 빠르다는 이점이 있다. 가이드라인이란 웹캠을 통해 입력되는 손의 모양과 비교하여 검출하기 위해 화면에 출력하는 손 모양의 라인이다. 가이드라인을 이용한 동적 손동작 인식 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 웹캠을 사용하여 복잡한 배경과 단순한 배경으로 구분된 9가지 동영상을 대상으로 실험하였다. 그 결과 CPU 점유율이 낮고, 메모리 사용량도 적기 때문에 시스템 부하가 높은 환경에 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.41-44
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• 2000

In this paper, we present an efficient face detection algorithm for locating vertical views of human faces in complex scenes. The algorithm models the distribution of human skin color in YCbCr color space and find various ace candidate regions. Face candidate regions are found by thresholding with predetermined thresholds. For each of these face candidate regions, The sobel edge operator is used to find edge regions. For each edge region, we used an ellipse detection algorithm which is similar to hough transform to refine the candidate region. Finally if a substantial number of he facial features (eye, mouth) are found successfully in the candidate region, we determine he ace candidate region as a face region. e show empirically that the presented algorithm an find the face region very well in the complex scenes.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1689-1694
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• 2005

Face detection plays an important role in face recognition, video surveillance, and human computer interface. In this paper, we present a face detection system using eye detection with progressive thresholding from a digital camera. The face candidate is detected by using skin color segmentation in the YCbCr color space. The face candidates are verified by detecting the eyes that is located by iterative thresholding and correlation coefficients. Preprocessing includes histogram equalization, log transformation, and gray-scale morphology for the emphasized eyes image. The distance of the eye candidate points generated by the progressive increasing threshold value is employed to extract the facial region. The process of the face detection is repeated by using the increasing threshold value. Experimental results show that more enhanced face detection in real time.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.632-635
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• 2003

This paper describes a system fur tracking multiple faces in an input video sequence using facial convex hull based facial segmentation and robust hausdorff distance. The algorithm adapts skin color reference map in YCbCr color space and hair color reference map in RGB color space for classifying face region. Then, we obtain an initial face model with preprocessing and convex hull. For tracking, this algorithm computes displacement of the point set between frames using a robust hausdorff distance and the best possible displacement is selected. Finally, the initial face model is updated using the displacement. We provide an example to illustrate the proposed tracking algorithm, which efficiently tracks rotating and zooming faces as well as existing multiple faces in video sequences obtained from CCD camera.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.87-92
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• 2003

This paper describes a system for tracking multiple faces in an input video sequence using facial convex hull based facial segmentation and robust hausdorff distance. The algorithm adapts skin color reference map in YCbCr color space and hair color reference map in RGB color space for classifying face region. Then, we obtain an initial face model with preprocessing and convex hull. For tracking, this algorithm computes displacement of the point set between frames using a robust hausdorff distance and the best possible displacement is selected. Finally, the initial face model is updated using the displacement. We provide an example to illustrate the proposed tracking algorithm, which efficiently tracks rotating and zooming faces as well as existing multiple faces in video sequences obtained from CCD camera.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.141-156
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• 2013

In this paper we propose a method to detect human faces in color images. Many existing systems use a window-based classifier that scans the entire image for the presence of the human face and such systems suffers from scale variation, pose variation, illumination changes, etc. Here, we propose a lighting insensitive face detection method based upon the edge and skin tone information of the input color image. First, image enhancement is performed, especially if the image is acquired from an unconstrained illumination condition. Next, skin segmentation in YCbCr and RGB space is conducted. The result of skin segmentation is refined using the skin tone percentage index method. The edges of the input image are combined with the skin tone image to separate all non-face regions from candidate faces. Candidate verification using primitive shape features of the face is applied to decide which of the candidate regions corresponds to a face. The advantage of the proposed method is that it can detect faces that are of different sizes, in different poses, and that are making different expressions under unconstrained illumination conditions.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.866-871
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• 2011

In this paper, an improved method of hand detecting and hand gesture recognition is proposed, it can be applied in different illumination condition and complex background. We use Adaptive Skin Threshold (AST) to detect the areas of hand. Then the result of hand detection is used to hand recognition through the improved HMM algorithm. At last, we design a simple program using the result of hand recognition for recognizing "stone, scissors, cloth" these three kinds of hand gesture. Experimental results had proved that the hand and gesture can be detected and recognized with high average recognition rate (92.41%) and better than some other methods such as syntactical analysis, neural based approach by using our approach.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.2547-2554
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• 2009

본 논문은 얼굴을 자동 초점(AF, Auto Focusing) 기능의 관심영역(ROI, Region of Interest)으로 이용하기 위한 얼굴 검출(Face Detection) 알고리즘 및 하드웨어 구현에 관한 것이다. 얼굴 검출을 위해 YCbCr 색 좌표계에서의 피부색 영역을 바탕으로 얼굴의 특징을 이용하였다. 얼굴에 해당하는 피부, 눈에 해당하는 에지, 그리고 입에 해당하는 음영의 픽셀수를 얼굴 특징으로 선택하였고, 얼굴 특징은 2,000개의 얼굴 샘플을 통하여 통계적으로 구하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 하드웨어 설계 시, 하드웨어 자원의 효율성을 고려하여 영상의 중심에 가까운 두 명의 얼굴을 검출하게 하였다. 그리고 검출된 얼굴을 자동 초점의 관심 영역으로 이용하기 위하여 얼굴 영역을 사각형의 박스로 표시하였고, 영상에서 박스의 시작점과 끝점에 해당하는 위치를 출력하게 하였다. 하드웨어로 설계된 얼굴 검출 기능은 FPGA 보드와 모바일 폰 카메라 센서를 사용하여 검증하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.329-330
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• 2007

This paper presents a simple and robust face detection algorithm that can be utilized to video summary. We firstly apply the Illumination-compensation process for reducing the effect of brightness on the image. And then, we analyze the face region based on color in the YCbCr space to obtain the skin color. Also, we try the morphological image processing called closing algorithm to improve the detection. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our face detection algorithm that leads to 96.7 % precision ratio on average.