• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.731-741
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• 2000

This paper proposes a method to detect a facial region and extract facial features which is crucial for visual recognition of human faces. In this paper, we extract the MER(Minimum Enclosing Rectangle) of a face and facial components using projection analysis on both edge image and binary image. We use an active contour model(snakes) for extraction of the contours of eye, mouth, eyebrow, and face in order to reflect the individual differences of facial shapes and converge quickly. The determination of initial contour is very important for the performance of snakes. Particularly, we detect Minimum Enclosing Rectangle(MER) of facial components and then determine initial contours using general shape of facial components within the boundary of the obtained MER. We obtained experimental results to show that MER extraction of the eye, mouth, and face was performed successfully. But in the case of images with bright eyebrow, MER extraction of eyebrow was performed poorly. We obtained good contour extraction with the individual differences of facial shapes. Particularly, in the eye contour extraction, we combined edges by first order derivative operator and zero crossings by second order derivative operator in designing energy function of snakes, and we achieved good eye contours. For the face contour extraction, we used both edges and grey level intensity of pixels in designing of energy function. Good face contours were extracted as well.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.1062-1067
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• 2005

This paper discusses a skeleton feature extraction method for ubiquitous robot system. The skeleton features are used to analyze human motion and pose estimation. In different conventional feature extraction environment, the ubiquitous robot system requires more robust feature extraction method because it has internal vibration and low image quality. The new hybrid silhouette extraction method and adaptive skeleton model are proposed to overcome this constrained environment. The skin color is used to extract more sophisticated feature points. Finally, the experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.577-579
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 손 제스처를 사용한 2족 보행로봇 제어방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 연속된 입력 영상으로부터 사용자의 손을 검출하기 위해, 피부색 정보와 Hue의 불변 모멘트 정보를 사용한다. 검출된 손 영역은 Active Contour Model를 사용하여 추적한다. 손 제스처를 인식하기 위해 Hue의 불변 모멘 정보로부터, 검출된 손의 모양을판단하고 그 결과를 미리 정해둔 심벌 중에 하나로 할당한다. 이렇게 연속적으로 할당된 심벌들은 HMM(Hidden Markov Model) 인식기를 통해 인식 되고 로봇 명령어를 출력하며, 출력된 명령어에 따라 로봇이 제어된다. 제안된 방법의 효율성을 증명하기 위해, 자체 제작한 2족 보행로봇(KAI)으로 6개의 손 제스처를 이용하여 사용자가 원격지에 있는 로봇의 보행을 제어하는 원격 로봇 보행 제어 시스템에 응용해 보았다. 실험 결과, $94\%$의 인식률을 보였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.4
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• pp.289-298
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• 2009

Active Contour Model, that is, Snake algorithm is effective for detection and tracking the objects. However, this algorithm has some drawbacks; numerous parameters must be designed(weighting factors, iteration steps, etc.), a reasonable initialization must be available and moreover suffers from numerical instability. Therefore we propose a novel Energy Corrected Snake(ECS) algorithm which improved on external energy of Snake algorithm for detection and tracking the moving object more effectively. The proposed algorithm uses the difference image, getting when the object is moving. It copies four direction images from the difference image and performs the accumulating compute to erasing image noise, so that it gets external energy steadily. Then external energy united with contour that is computed by internal energy. Consequently we can detect and track the moving object more speedily and easily. To show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we experiment on 3 situations. The experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm outperformed by 6$\sim$9% of detection rate and 6$\sim$11% of tracker detection rate compared with the Snake algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.3708-3728
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• 2021

Indian herbal plants are used in agriculture and in the food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. Laboratory-based tests are routinely used to identify and classify similar herb species by analyzing their internal cell structures. In this paper, we have applied computer vision techniques to do the same. The original leaf image was preprocessed using the Chan-Vese active contour segmentation algorithm to efface the background from the image by setting the contraction bias as (v) -1 and smoothing factor (µ) as 0.5, and bringing the initial contour close to the image boundary. Thereafter the segmented grayscale image was fed to a leaky capacitance fired neuron model (LCFN), which differentiates between similar herbs by combining different groups of pixels in the leaf image. The LFCN's decay constant (f), decay constant (g) and threshold (h) parameters were empirically assigned as 0.7, 0.6 and h=18 to generate the 1D feature vector. The LCFN time sequence identified the internal leaf structure at different iterations. Our proposed framework was tested against newly collected herbal species of natural images, geometrically variant images in terms of size, orientation and position. The 1D sequence and shape features of aloe, betel, Indian borage, bittergourd, grape, insulin herb, guava, mango, nilavembu, nithiyakalyani, sweet basil and pomegranate were fed into the 5-fold Bayesian regularization neural network (BRNN), K-nearest neighbors (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), and ensemble classifier to obtain the highest classification accuracy of 91.19%.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.464-468
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• 2009

In this paper we propose an image-based approach, which is different from the traditional flow cytometric method to detect shape of apoptosis cells. This method can overcome the defects of cytometry and give precise recognition of apoptosis cells. In this work K-means clustering was used to do the rough segmentation and an active contour model, called 'snake' was used to do the precise edge detection. And then some features were extracted including physical feature, shape descriptor and texture features of the apoptosis cells. Finally a Mahalanobis distance classifier classifies the segmentation images as apoptosis and non-apoptosis cell.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.673-676
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• 2003

This paper deals with the problem of moving object detection and location in computer vision. We describe a new object-dependent motion analysis method for tracking target in an image sequence taken from a moving platform. We tackle these tasks with three steps. First, we make an active contour model of a target in order to build some of low-energy points, which are called kernels. Then we detect interest points in two windows called tracking windows around a kernel respectively. At the third step, we decide the correspondence of those detected interest points between tracking windows by the probabilistic relaxation method In this algorithm, the detecting process is iterative and begins with the detection of all potential correspondence pair in consecutive image. Each pair of corresponding points is then iteratively recomputed to get a globally optimum set of pairwise correspondences.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.257-260
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• 2005

This paper discusses a human body extraction method for mobile robot system. The skeleton features are used to analyze human motion and pose estimation. The intelligent robot system requires more robust silhouette extraction method because it has internal vibration and low resolution. The new hybrid silhouette extraction method is proposed to overcome this constrained environment. Finally, the experimental results show the superiority of the Proposed method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.13-16
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• 1999

An active contour model, Snake, was developed as a useful segmenting and tracking tool lot rigid or non-rigid (i.e. deformable) objects by Kass in 1987 In this research, Snake is newly designed to cover this large moving case. Image flow energy is proposed to give Snake the motion information of the target object. By this image flow energy Snake's nodes can move uniformly along the direction of the target motion in spite of the existences of local minima. Furthermore, when the motion is too large to apply image flow energy to tracking, a jump mode is proposed for solving the problem. The vector used to make Snake's nodes jump to the new location can be obtained by processing the image flow. The effectiveness of the proposed Snake is confirmed by some simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.464-469
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• 2006

본 논문은 연속 영상에서 빠르게 움직이거나 변형이 있는 물체를 추출하기 위한 개선된 활성 외곽선 모델을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 프레임간 물체의 변위를 식별하기 위한 합성 기울기 맵 생성 단계와 큰 변위에도 지역적 최저에 빠지지 않고 견고하게 수렴하기 위한 에너지 비탈면 생성 단계로 이루어진다. 이를 위하여 우선, 두 프레임의 기울기 맵을 합성하고, 불필요한 배경과 잡음을 제거하기 위해 두 프레임의 차를 마스크로 적용하여 합성 기울기 맵을 생성한다. 생성된 합성 기울기 맵에 수학적 형태학 연산의 하나인 닫기 연산을 적용하여 활성 외곽선이 매끄럽게 이동할 수 있는 에너지 비탈면을 만든다. 본 논문에서는 제안방법을 평가하기 위하여 움직임 변위가 큰 연속 영상을 사용하여 기존 활성 외곽선 모델 방법과 비교하여 육안평가, 에너지 최소화 과정 및 수행시간 측면에서 비교분석한다. 본 제안방법은 기존 활성 외곽선 모델 방법보다 큰 움직임 변위와 변형에도 빠르고 정확하게 물체 추적이 가능하다.