• 한국의류학회지
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.549-561
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• 2012

This study investigates the effects of sociocultural influences and body image on appearance enhancement behaviors (facial management, clothing selection, and weight/figure management). For data collection, a questionnaire was administrated to 562 female college students in Gwangju City, Chonnam area and Chonbuk area, Korea, from May 23 to June 10, 2011. To analyze the data, a SPSS 18.0 statistics package was used, and descriptive statistical analysis, frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and regression analysis were conducted. The results were as follows. First, sociocultural influences were divided into three factors: parental influence, media influence, and peer influence. Overall sociocultural influences had positive effects on appearance enhancement behavior. Second, body image was divided into two factors: weight-concern and appearance-concern. Sociocultural influences had significant effects on overall body image. Third, body image appeared to have positive effects on overall appearance enhancement behavior.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.49-56
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• 1990

Facial balance is the primary detevminant of good facial esthetics and is expressed externally by the shape of facial soft tissues. Balance of the facial skeleton is most important in prediction of orthognathic surgery, however, it is not alwags coincided to soft tissue balance because the soft tissue drapes overlying hard tissue varies in thickness and tones from case to case. So, soft tissue facial balance and esthetics also should always be considered in prediction of hard tissue changes preoperatively. The chin has a paramount importance in the overall appearance of the face and facial profile because it may express individual charactor or image. Therefore positional change of the chin must be considered in any cases as the last and important option to give an overall soft tissue balance. Two cases were referred from orthodontists only for anterior segmental of teortomuy of the chin. Pre-operative evaluation showed poor soft tissue chin profiles which were not coincided to hard tissue chin balance. We altered surgical plans to fulfill balancing soft tissue profile and then could improve overall esthetics after surgery.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2013

최근 가상환경에서는 실재감 있는 인간의 얼굴 모델을 설계하기 위하여 얼굴의 형태나 근육의 움직임과 같이 단순히 일반적인 표현요소를 중심으로 모델링 되고 있다. 하지만, 이러한 얼굴 자체의 외형적 요소 이외에도 외적 요소에 의한 얼굴 부분의 변화 인자는 가상 아바타를 효과적으로 표현하기 위한 중요한 요소이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 가상 아바타의 각막면에 비친 반사영상(eye reflection)을 기반으로 사용자의 시각적 실재감에 대한 반응을 평가한다. 실험결과, 각막면의 반사율을 크게 하여 반사영상이 뚜렷하게 나타난 경우 높은 실감을 느끼는 것으로 나타났다. 이 결과는 새로운 시각적 실감표현요소를 제안하고, 제안된 실감표현요소의 구체적인 표현 범위를 제시함으로써 사실적인 가상 아바타를 설계하기 위한 기초 연구로써 활용 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.1089-1098
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• 2009

최근에 인간컴퓨터 상호작용 분야에서 사용자의 시선 위치를 파악하여 더욱 편리한 입력 장치를 개발하고자 하는 연구가 많이 진행되고 있다. 기존의 대부분 연구들은 큰 모니터를 사용하는 컴퓨터 환경에서 시선 추적 시스템을 개발하였다. 최근 이동단말기의 사용 증대로 이동 중에 시선 추적에 의한 단말기 제어의 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 이동형 컴퓨터 (Ultra-Mobile PC) 및 컴퓨터 내장 카메라를 이용하여 사용자의 얼굴을 추적하고, 얼굴내의 특징점의 위치를 능동외관모델 (Active Appearance Model)을 기반으로 추적하는 연구를 수행하였다. 본 논문의 독창성은 기존 연구와는 달리 소형 화면을 가지는 이동 단말기에서 사용자의 시선 위치를 추적할 수 있는 방법을 제안한 점과 정밀한 얼굴 특징점 검출을 위하여 능동외관모델을 사용한 점이다. 또한 사용자의 초기 캘리브레이션시 얻어진 특징값을 기반으로, 입력 특징값들을 정규화 함으로써, Z거리에 따라 시선 위치 정확도가 영향을 받지 않는다는 점이다. 실험결과, 약 1.77도의 시선 오차를 발생하였으나, 추가적인 얼굴 움직임에 의한 마우스 움직임 기능으로 이러한 시선 오차는 더욱 줄일 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.40-50
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• 2012

Face recognition is a biometric technology used to identify individuals based on facial feature information. Previous studies of face recognition used features including the eye, mouth and nose; however, there have been few studies on the effects of using other facial components, such as the eyebrows and chin, on recognition performance. We measured the recognition accuracy affected by these facial components, and compared the differences between computer-based and human-based facial recognition methods. This research is novel in the following four ways compared to previous works. First, we measured the effect of components such as the eyebrows and chin. And the accuracy of computer-based face recognition was compared to human-based face recognition according to facial components. Second, for computer-based recognition, facial components were automatically detected using the Adaboost algorithm and active appearance model (AAM), and user authentication was achieved with the face recognition algorithm based on principal component analysis (PCA). Third, we experimentally proved that the number of facial features (when including eyebrows, eye, nose, mouth, and chin) had a greater impact on the accuracy of human-based face recognition, but consistent inclusion of some feature such as chin area had more influence on the accuracy of computer-based face recognition because a computer uses the pixel values of facial images in classifying faces. Fourth, we experimentally proved that the eyebrow feature enhanced the accuracy of computer-based face recognition. However, the problem of occlusion by hair should be solved in order to use the eyebrow feature for face recognition.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.87-99
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• 2017

Objective: The aims of this study were to measure and compare the facial dimensions of the Miss Korea pageant contestants and a selected group of women from the general population by using three-dimensional (3D) image analysis, as well as to compare various facial ratios to the golden ratio within each group. Methods: Three-dimensional images of 52 Miss Korea pageant contestants (MK group) and 41 young female adults selected from the general population (GP group) were acquired. Fifty-four variables and ratios were measured and calculated. Intergroup comparisons were performed using multivariate analysis of variance. Results: Compared to the GP group, the MK group showed greater total facial height and eye width, lesser lower-facial height, and lesser facial, lower-facial, and nasal widths. Moreover, compared to the GP group, the MK group had more protruded noses with greater nasolabial angle, greater vertical curvature of the foreheads, lesser horizontal curvature of the cheek, and lesser lower-lip-and-chin volume. Conclusions: The MK group had longer faces but smaller lower lips and chins than did the GP group. The golden ratio was not matching the current facial esthetic standards. These data might be beneficial for treatment planning of patients undergoing orthognathic and plastic surgeries.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.281-286
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• 2005

The goal in facial paralysis treatment is to achieve the normal appearance of the face as well as to reconstruct the natural symmetrical smile. In cases of facial paralysis, a widely accepted procedure is the two stage method, which combines neurovascular free muscle transfer with cross face nerve grafting. Although the results are promising, the two operations of this method, which are about 1 year apart, impose an economic burden on the patients and require a lengthy period before results are obtained. In order to overcome these drawbacks, one stage method, using latissimus dorsi neurovascuular free muscle flap was introduced. Between January 2000 and January 2004, fifteen patients with long standing facial paralysis were treated in the Korea University Anam Hospital. The segmental latissimus dorsi with long nerve and pedicle was transferred to the paralyzed side of the face. The first postoperative movement of the transferred muscle was reported at 8.9 months, faster than that of the two stage method. During the next 24 months, a constant increase in the power of muscle contraction was observed. The fifteen cases were evaluated within an average of 31.7 months following the surgery and satisfactory results including muscle contraction were obtained in eleven of the cases but muscle contraction was not found in three cases.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.6000-6017
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• 2018

This paper presents a new descriptor, named Histograms of Prominent Edge Directions (HPED), for the recognition of facial expressions in a person-independent environment. In this paper, we raise the issue of sampling error in generating the code-histogram from spatial regions of the face image, as observed in the existing descriptors. HPED describes facial appearance changes based on the statistical distribution of the top two prominent edge directions (i.e., primary and secondary direction) captured over small spatial regions of the face. Compared to existing descriptors, HPED uses a smaller number of code-bins to describe the spatial regions, which helps avoid sampling error despite having fewer samples while preserving the valuable spatial information. In contrast to the existing Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) that uses the histogram of the primary edge direction (i.e., gradient orientation) only, we additionally consider the histogram of the secondary edge direction, which provides more meaningful shape information related to the local texture. Experiments on popular facial expression datasets demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed HPED against existing descriptors in a person-independent environment.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.591-611
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• 2016

High dimensional space is the biggest problem when classification process is carried out, because it takes longer time for computation, so that the costs involved are also expensive. In this research, the facial space generated from homogeneous and non-homogeneous polynomial was proposed to extract the facial image features. The homogeneous and non-homogeneous polynomial-based eigenspaces are the second opinion of the feature extraction of an appearance method to solve non-linear features. The kernel trick has been used to complete the matrix computation on the homogeneous and non-homogeneous polynomial. The weight and projection of the new feature space of the proposed method have been evaluated by using the three face image databases, i.e., the YALE, the ORL, and the UoB. The experimental results have produced the highest recognition rate 94.44%, 97.5%, and 94% for the YALE, ORL, and UoB, respectively. The results explain that the proposed method has produced the higher recognition than the other methods, such as the Eigenface, Fisherface, Laplacianfaces, and O-Laplacianfaces.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.49-56
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• 1989

Bell's palsy is not a serious disease and recovery is spontaneous in more half of the patients, but this recovery is long delayed in many instances and the cosmetic effect of an altered facial appearance is psychologically distressing. The etiology is unknown, but Kettle's ischemic hypothesis has been widely accepted. The aim of treatment is to reduce edema and improve circulation to the facial nerve. Stellate ganglion block (SGB) resulted in abolishing cerebral vascular spasm and in increasing cerebral blood flow. Thus, stellate ganglion block is effective in treatment of Bell's palsy. From 1978 to Oct. 1988, we have treated 222 patients (20 patients were recurred cases) with facial palsy by SGB and analysed the effect of SGB. We noticed that SGB was very effective in early repetitive treatment (90% recovery). This study is reported and the literature is reviewed.