• Journal of International Society for Simulation Surgery
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.64-66
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• 2015

Purpose : In this paper we proposed cascade feature filter and projection method for rapid human face recognition for the large-scale high-dimensional face database. Materials and Methods : The relevant features are selected from the large feature set using Fast Correlation-Based Filter method. After feature selection, project them into discriminant using Principal Component Analysis or Linear Discriminant Analysis. Their cascade method reduces the time-complexity without significant degradation of the performance. Results : In our experiments, the ORL database and the extended Yale face database b were used for evaluation. On the ORL database, the processing time was approximately 30-times faster than typical approach with recognition rate 94.22% and on the extended Yale face database b, the processing time was approximately 300-times faster than typical approach with recognition rate 98.74 %. Conclusion : The recognition rate and time-complexity of the proposed method is suitable for real-time face recognition system on the large-scale high-dimensional face database.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.61-74
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a illumination-robust face recognition system using MCS-LBP and 2D-PCA algorithm. A binary pattern transform which has been used in the field of the face recognition and facial expression, has a characteristic of robust to illumination. Thus, this paper propose MCS-LBP which is more robust to illumination than previous LBP, and face recognition system fusing 2D-PCA algorithm. The performance evaluation of proposed system was performed by using various binary pattern images and well-known face recognition features such as PCA, LDA, 2D-PCA and ULBP histogram of gabor images. In the process of performance evaluation, we used a YaleB face database, an extended YaleB face database, and a CMU-PIE face database that are constructed under varying lighting condition, and the proposed system which consists of MCS-LBP image and 2D-PCA feature show the best recognition accuracy.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.5474-5490
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• 2017

Although two-dimensional principal component analysis (2DPCA) has been shown to be successful in face recognition system, it is still very sensitive to illumination variations. To reduce the effect of these variations, texture-based techniques are used due to their robustness to these variations. In this paper, we explore several texture-based techniques and determine the most appropriate one to be used with 2DPCA-based techniques for face recognition. We also propose a new distance metric computation in 2DPCA called Row Assembled Matrix Distance (RowAMD). Experiments on Yale Face Database, Extended Yale Face Database B, AR Database and LFW Database reveal that the proposed RowAMD distance computation method outperforms other conventional distance metrics when Local Line Binary Pattern (LLBP) and Multi-scale Block Local Binary Pattern (MB-LBP) are used for face authentication and face identification, respectively. In addition to this, the results also demonstrate the robustness of the proposed RowAMD with several texture-based techniques.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.10
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• pp.129-136
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• 2015

We propose a hybrid face recognition to deal with illumination variation. For this, we extract discriminant features by using the different illumination invariant feature extraction methods. In order to utilize both advantages of each method, we evaluate the discriminant power of each feature by using the discriminant distance and then construct a composite feature with only the features that contain a large amount of discriminative information. The experimental results for the Multi-PIE, Yale B, AR and yale databases show that the proposed method outperforms an individual illumination invariant feature extraction method for all the databases.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.1824-1845
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• 2016

The GMM is a conventional approach which has been recently applied in many face recognition studies. However, the question about how to deal with illumination changes while ensuring high performance is still a challenge, especially with real-world databases. In this paper, we propose a Visual Observation Confidence (VOC) measure for robust face recognition for illumination changes. Our VOC value is a combined confidence value of three measurements: Flatness Measure (FM), Centrality Measure (CM), and Illumination Normality Measure (IM). While FM measures the discrimination ability of one face, IM represents the degree of illumination impact on that face. In addition, we introduce CM as a centrality measure to help FM to reduce some of the errors from unnecessary areas such as the hair, neck or background. The VOC then accompanies the feature vectors in the EM process to estimate the optimal models by modified-GMM training. In the experiments, we introduce a real-world database, called KoFace, besides applying some public databases such as the Yale and the ORL database. The KoFace database is composed of 106 face subjects under diverse illumination effects including shadows and highlights. The results show that our proposed approach gives a higher Face Recognition Rate (FRR) than the GMM baseline for indoor and outdoor datasets in the real-world KoFace database (94% and 85%, respectively) and in ORL, Yale databases (97% and 100% respectively).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.101-102
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• 2008

얼굴인식 분야에서 PCA(Principal Component Analysis) 기반 알고리즘은 비교적 간단한 구조와 높은 인식률로 인해 많이 사용되고 있지만 조명이나 얼굴 포즈 변화에 민감하다는 단점이 있다[1]. 이런 단점을 해결하기 위한 노력으로 PCA를 다른 얼굴인식 알고리즘과 결합함으로서 조명과 포즈 변화에 강인한 얼굴인식을 위만 연구가 현재 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문은 PCA기반 얼굴인식에서 조명이 다양하게 변할 때 이에 따른 인식률의 변화와, 인식이 실패했을 경우에 인식 대상이 유사도 상위후보군에 들어가는지를 조사함으로서 PCA기반 알고리즘의 신뢰도를 확인하고자 한다. 이를 위해 Yale Face Database H와 Extended Yale Face Database B를 이용하여 실험한 결과 약 93%의 인식 성공률을 확인했으며, 7%의 인식 실패한 영상의 경우 그 인식하고자 했던 얼굴이 유사도를 기준으로 정렬된 학습 영상에서 상위 후보군에 속한다는 실험 결과를 얻음으로서 PCA기반 얼굴 인식 알고리즘의 신뢰성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.197-202
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• 2009

Active Appearance Models(AAMs)은 얼굴인식, 얼굴추적, 표정인식 뿐만 아니라 눈동자 추적과 같은 분야에도 적용되어 좋은 성능을 보여 주었다. 보통 AAM 을 생성하기 위해서는 얼굴 영상과 얼굴의 특징을 나타내는 점으로 구성된 매쉬로 이루어 지는 트레이닝 셋이 필요하다. AAM fitting algorithm 은 학습한 얼굴과 유사한 얼굴을 Fitting 할 때에는 뛰어난 성능을 보이지만 조명에 의한 그림자 또는 액세서리에 의한 얼굴의 피부 가림과 같이 전체 얼굴이 잘 나타나지 않는 불완전한 영상의 Fitting 은 입력영상과 템플릿 영상간의 오차가 커지기 때문에 실패할 가능성이 매우 높다. 본 논문에서 우리는 AAMs 에서 사용되는 PCA를 Higher-order Singular Value Decomposition(HOSVD)로 대체하여 이 문제를 보완하는 강화된 AAM 을 제안한다. 제안된 AAM 에는 기존에 사용하던 고유벡터와 함께 HOSVD 를 통해 획득할 수 있는 Eigen-Modes 를 추가하여 사용한다. 또한 우리는 Yale Face Database를 이용한 평가를 통해 제안된 AAM 이 기존 AAM 보다 불완전한 영상에 효과적으로 대응하는 것을 보여준다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.508-515
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• 2012

This paper presents a method that estimates face pose for a given face image and synthesizes any posed face images using Active Appearance Model(AAM). The AAM that having been successfully applied to various applications is an example-based learning model and learns the variations of training examples. However, with a single model, it is difficult to handle large pose variations of face images. This paper proposes to build a model covering only a small range of angle for each pose. Then, with a proper model for a given face image, we can achieve accurate pose estimation and synthesis. In case of the model used for pose estimation was not trained with the angle to synthesize, we solve this problem by training the linear relationship between the models in advance. In the experiments on Yale B public face database, we present the accurate pose estimation and pose synthesis results. For our face database having large pose variations, we demonstrate successful frontal pose synthesis results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.119-123
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• 2006

We present a new face recognition method, which selects eigenfaces by our algorithm instead of the existing eigenfaces selection method that chooses eigenfaces by the value of corresponding eigenvalues. We justify our method by comparing our method with traditional one by experiments with YALE, ORL database. By using our algorithm in selecting the eigenfaces, we obtain higher recognition rate than the existing schemes.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.9C
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• pp.748-755
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• 2010

In this paper we propose an improved face recognition method using Gabor tensor. Gabor transform is known to be able to represent characteristic feature in face and reduced environmental influence. It may contribute to improve face recognition ratio. We attempted to combine three-dimensional tensor from Gabor transform with MPCA(Multilinear PCA) and LDA. MPCA with tensor which use various features is more effective than traditional one or two dimensional PCA. It is known to be robust to the change of face expression or light. Proposed method is simulated by MATALB9 using ORL and Yale face database. Test result shows that recognition ratio is improved maximum 9~27% compared with exisisting face recognition method.