• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제4권10호
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• pp.631-642
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 웹상에서 자신을 대신하는 아바타 제작시 본인의 얼굴과 닮은 얼굴을 생성하기 위해 사진으로부터 개인의 특징정보를 추출하는 방법과 추출된 특징정보에 따라 해당하는 이목구비를 준비된 분류기준에 의해 특정 클래스로 분류해 내는 방법을 제안한다. 특징정보 추출은 눈, 코, 입, 턱선으로 나누어 진행되어졌으며, 각 이목구비의 특징점과 분류기준을 각각 제시하였다. 추출 된 특징정보들은 전문 디자이너에 의해 그려진 이목구비 이미지들과 유사도를 계산하는데 사용되었으며, 여기서 가장 유사한 이미지를 턱선 벡터이미지에 합성하여 아바타 얼굴을 얻어낼 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.57-60
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• 2002

Facial features are often used for human computer interface(HCI). This paper proposes a method to detect facial features using color and facial geometry information. Face region is first extracted by using color information, and then the pupils are detected by applying a separability filter and facial geometry constraints. Mouth is also extracted from Cr(coded red) component. Experimental results shows that the proposed detection method is robust to a wide range of facial variation in position, scale, color and gaze.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1657-1662
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• 2017

Facial expression recognition systems using video devices have emerged as an important component of natural human-machine interfaces which contribute to various practical applications such as security systems, behavioral science and clinical practices. In this work, we present a new method to analyze, represent and recognize human facial expressions using a sequence of facial images. Under our proposed facial expression recognition framework, the overall procedure includes: accurate face detection to remove background and noise effects from the raw image sequences and align each image using vertex mask generation. Furthermore, these features are reduced by principal component analysis. Finally, these augmented features are trained and tested using Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The experimental evaluation demonstrated the proposed approach over two public datasets such as Cohn-Kanade and AT&T datasets of facial expression videos that achieved expression recognition results as 96.75% and 96.92%. Besides, the recognition results show the superiority of the proposed approach over the state of the art methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1390-1403
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• 2016

Facial expression recognition (FER) plays a very significant role in computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing applications such as human computer interaction as it provides sufficient information about emotions of people. For video-based facial expression recognition, depth cameras can be better candidates over RGB cameras as a person's face cannot be easily recognized from distance-based depth videos hence depth cameras also resolve some privacy issues that can arise using RGB faces. A good FER system is very much reliant on the extraction of robust features as well as recognition engine. In this work, an efficient novel approach is proposed to recognize some facial expressions from time-sequential depth videos. First of all, efficient Local Binary Pattern (LBP) features are obtained from the time-sequential depth faces that are further classified by Generalized Discriminant Analysis (GDA) to make the features more robust and finally, the LBP-GDA features are fed into Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) to train and recognize different facial expressions successfully. The depth information-based proposed facial expression recognition approach is compared to the conventional approaches such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) where the proposed one outperforms others by obtaining better recognition rates.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.505-509
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• 2011

This paper attempts to classify known facial expressions and to establish the correlations between two regions (eye + eyebrows and mouth) in identifying the six prototypic expressions. Covariance is used to describe region texture that captures facial features for classification. The texture captured exhibit the pattern observed during the execution of particular expressions. Feature matching is done by simple distance measure between the probe and the modeled representations of eye and mouth components. We target JAFFE database in this experiment to validate our claim. A high classification rate is observed from the mouth component and the correlation between the two (eye and mouth) components. Eye component exhibits a lower classification rate if used independently.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2373-2378
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• 2005

An emotion detection algorithm using frontal facial image is presented in this paper. The algorithm is composed of three main stages: image processing stage and facial feature extraction stage, and emotion detection stage. In image processing stage, the face region and facial component is extracted by using fuzzy color filter, virtual face model, and histogram analysis method. The features for emotion detection are extracted from facial component in facial feature extraction stage. In emotion detection stage, the fuzzy classifier is adopted to recognize emotion from extracted features. It is shown by experiment results that the proposed algorithm can detect emotion well.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.69-72
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• 2002

Human face detection has many applications such as face recognition, face or facial feature tracking, pose estimation, and expression recognition. We present a new method for automatically segmentation and face detection in color images. Skin color alone is usually not sufficient to detect face, so we combine the color segmentation and shape analysis. The algorithm consists of two stages. First, skin color regions are segmented based on the chrominance component of the input image. Then regions with elliptical shape are selected as face hypotheses. They are certificated to searching for the facial features in their interior, Experimental results demonstrate successful detection over a wide variety of facial variations in scale, rotation, pose, lighting conditions.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2005

최근 네티즌들은 사이버 공간에서 자신의 정체성을 나타내기 위해 가상 캐릭터 '아바타(Avatar)'를 많이 이용하고 있으며, 더 나아가 사용자들은 좀 더 자신과 닮은 아바타를 요구하고 있다. 본 논문은 자동 아바타 생성의 기반기술인 얼굴 영역과 구성요소의 추출에 대한 연구로써 얼굴 구성 요소의 추출은 ACM과 에지의 정보를 이용하였다. 또한 얼굴 영역의 추출은 얼굴 영역의 면적 변화량을 ACM의 외부에너지로 사용하여 저해상도의 사진에서 발생하는 조명과 화질의 열화에 의한 영향을 감소시킬 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과로 얼굴영역 추출 성공률은 $92{\%}$로 나타났으며, 얼굴 구성 요소의 추출은 $83.4{\%}$의 성공률을 보였다. 본 논문은 향후 자동 아바타 생성 시스템에서 얼굴 영역과 얼굴 구성요소를 정확하게 추출함으로써 패턴 부위별 특징처리가 가능하게 될 것으로 예상된다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.207-211
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• 2011

This paper presents a method for facial feature representation and recognition from the Covariance Matrices of the Gabor-filtered images. Gabor filters are a very powerful tool for processing images that respond to different local orientations and wave numbers around points of interest, especially on the local features on the face. This is a very unique attribute needed to extract special features around the facial components like eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose. The Covariance matrices computed on Gabor filtered faces are adopted as the feature representation for face recognition. Geodesic distance measure is used as a matching measure and is preferred for its global consistency over other methods. Geodesic measure takes into consideration the position of the data points in addition to the geometric structure of given face images. The proposed method is invariant and robust under rotation, pose, or boundary distortion. Tests run on random images and also on publicly available JAFFE and FRAV3D face recognition databases provide impressively high percentage of recognition.

• 인지과학
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.323-331
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• 2005

본 논문은 조명 변화에 강인하며 중립 표정과 같은 표정 측정의 기준이 되는 단서 없이 다양한 내적상태 안에서 얼굴표정을 인식할 수 있는 개선된 시스템을 제안한다. 표정정보를 추출하기 위한 전처리 작업으로, 백색화(whitening) 단계가 적용되었다. 백색화 단계는 영상데이터들의 평균값이 0이며 단위분산 값으로 균일한 분포를 갖도록 하여 조명 변화에 대한 민감도를 줄인다. 백색화 단계 수행 후 제 1 주성분이 제외된 나머지 주성분들로 이루어진 PCA표상을 표정정보로 사용함으로써 중립 표정에 대한 단서 없이 얼굴표정의 특징추출을 가능하게 한다. 본 실험 결과는 또한 83개의 내적상태와 일치되는 다양한 얼굴표정들에서 임의로 선택된 표정영상들을 내적상태의 차원모델에 기반한 얼굴표정 인식을 수행함으로써 다양하고 자연스런 얼굴 표정 인식을 가능하게 하였다.