• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.181-189
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• 2015

Powered prosthesis is used to assist walking of people with an amputated lower limb and/or weak leg strength. The accurate gait phase classification is indispensable in smooth movement control of the powered prosthesis. In previous gait phase classification using physical sensors, there is limitation that powered prosthesis should be simulated as same as the speed of training process. Therefore, we propose EMG signal based gait phase recognition method to classify stairs ascending and stairs descending into four steps without using physical sensors, respectively. RMS, VAR, MAV, SSC, ZC, WAMP features are extracted from EMG signal data and LDA(Linear Discriminant Analysis) classifier is used. In the training process, the AHRS sensor produces various ranges of walking steps according to the change of knee angles. The experimental results show that the average accuracies of the proposed method are about 85.6% in stairs ascending and 69.5% in stairs descending whereas those of preliminary studies are about 58.5% in stairs ascending and 35.3% in stairs descending. In addition, we can analyze the average recognition ratio of each gait step with respect to the individual muscle.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.167-171
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• 2007

본 논문은 패턴 분류 문제에 사용되는 퍼지 최대-최소 신경망 방법을 이용하여 특정 집합으로부터 새로운 특정 집합을 추출해내고 추출된 특정 집합으로부터 의미 있는 특정을 선택해 내는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 퍼지 최대-최소 신경망은 패턴 분류를 위해 주로 사용이 되어 왔지만, 퍼지 최대-최소 신경망을 이용해 특정 집합의 값들을 패턴 공간내의 초상자의 집합으로 변환하고 변환된 초상자들끼리의 인접성을 척도로 단순한 연산을 통한 빠른 특정 집합을 선택하게 된다. 마지막으로 본 논문의 특정 집합 선택 방법을 하지 근전도 신호를 이용한 보행 패턴 분류에 적용해 보고, 그 결과를 기존 여러 특정 집합 선태 방법들과 비교해 봄으로써 제안한 방법의 타당성 및 적용 가능성을 알아본다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.49-52
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 은닉 마르코프 모델을 바탕으로 하는 발걸음을 이용한 개인 식별 시스템을 제안한다. 개인의 발걸음은 연속적인 자세나 움직임의 집합으로 나타낼 수 있는데, 구조적으로 연속적인 움직임의 변화는 확률적인 특성을 가지고 있기 때문에 은닉 마르코프 모델을 이용하여 적절하게 모델링 할 수 있다. 개인의 발걸음은 N개의 이산적인 자세 간의 전이로 이루어졌다고 가정하였으며, 이를 계산하기 위해 MMSI라는 발걸음 특징 모델을 제안하였다. MMSI는 발걸음 인식에 중요한 역할을 하는 시공간적인 정보를 가지고 있는 그레이-스케일 영상이다. 실험 결과는 MMSI를 이용하여 은닉 마르코프 모델을 바탕으로 한 발걸음 인식 결과를 보여준다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.6-11
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a gait-based human identification system using eigenfeature regularization and extraction (ERE). First, a gait feature for human identification which is called gait energy image (GEI) is generated from walking sequences acquired from a camera sensor. In training phase, regularized transformation matrix is obtained by applying ERE to the gallery GEI dataset, and the gallery GEI dataset is projected onto the eigenspace to obtain galley features. In testing phase, the probe GEI dataset is projected onto the eigenspace created in training phase and determine the identity by using a nearest neighbor classifier. Experiments are carried out on the CASIA gait dataset A to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. Experimental results show that the proposed system is better than previous works in terms of correct classification rate.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1477-1484
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• 2015

With the growth of financial industry with smartphone, interest on user authentication using smartphone has been arisen in these days. There are various type of biometric user authentication techniques, but gait recognition using accelerometer sensor in smartphone does not seem to develop remarkably. This paper suggests the method of user authentication using accelerometer sensor embedded in smartphone. Specifically, calibrate the sensor data from smartphone with 3D-transformation, extract features from transformed data and do principle component analysis, and learn model with using gaussian mixture model. Next, authenticate user data with confidence interval of GMM model. As result, proposed method is capable of user authentication with accelerometer sensor on smartphone as a high degree of accuracy(about 96%) even in the situation that environment control and limitation are minimum on the research.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.39-46
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• 2007

Research on human identification in ubiquitous environment has recently attracted a lot of attention. As one of those research, gait recognition is an efficient method of human identification using physical features of a walking person at a distance. In this paper, we present a human shape extraction and tracking for gait recognition using geodesic active contour models(GACMs) combined with mean shift algorithm The active contour models (ACMs) are very effective to deal with the non-rigid object because of its elastic property. However, they have the limitation that their performance is mainly dependent on the initial curve. To overcome this problem, we combine the mean shift algorithm with the traditional GACMs. The main idea is very simple. Before evolving using level set method, the initial curve in each frame is re-localized near the human region and is resized enough to include the targe region. This mechanism allows for reducing the number of iterations and for handling the large object motion. The proposed system is composed of human region detection and human shape tracking modules. In the human region detection module, the silhouette of a walking person is extracted by background subtraction and morphologic operation. Then human shape are correctly obtained by the GACMs with mean shift algorithm. In experimental results, the proposed method show that it is extracted and tracked efficiently accurate shape for gait recognition.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2024

This study aims to provide a customized dynamic kiosk screen that considers user characteristics to cope with changes caused by increased use of kiosks. In order to optimize the screen composition according to the characteristics of the digital vulnerable group such as the visually impaired, the elderly, children, and wheelchair users, etc., users are classified into nine categories based on real-time analysis of user characteristics (wheelchair use, visual impairment, age, etc.). The kiosk screen is dynamically adjusted according to the characteristics of the user to provide efficient services. This study shows that the system communication and operation were performed in the embedded environment, and the used object detection, gait recognition, and speech recognition technologies showed accuracy of 74%, 98.9%, and 96%, respectively. The proposed technology was verified for its effectiveness by implementing a prototype, and through this, this study showed the possibility of reducing the digital gap and providing user-friendly "barrier-free kiosk" services.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.496-504
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• 2023

This paper recognizes the motion intention of the wearer using a muscle stiffness sensor and proposes a control system for a wearable robot based on this. The proposed system recognizes the onset time of the motion using sensor data, determines the assistance mode, and provides assistive torque to the hip flexion/extension motion of the wearer through the generated reference trajectory according to the determined mode. The onset time of motion was detected using the CUSUM algorithm from the muscle stiffness sensor, and by comparing the detection results of the onset time with the EMG sensor and IMU, it verified its applicability as an input device for recognizing the intention of the wearer before motion. In addition, the stability of the proposed method was confirmed by comparing the results detected according to the walking speed of two subjects (1 male and 1 female). Based on these results, the assistance mode (gait assistance mode and muscle strengthening mode) was determined based on the detection results of onset time, and a reference trajectory was generated through cubic spline interpolation according to the determined assistance mode. And, the practicality of the proposed system was also confirmed by applying it to an actual wearable robot.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.41-51
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose a technique of multi-time window feature extraction for anger detection in gait data. In the previous gait-based emotion recognition methods, the pedestrian's stride, time taken for one stride, walking speed, and forward tilt angles of the neck and thorax are calculated. Then, minimum, mean, and maximum values are calculated for the entire interval to use them as features. However, each feature does not always change uniformly over the entire interval but sometimes changes locally. Therefore, we propose a multi-time window feature extraction technique that can extract both global and local features, from long-term to short-term. In addition, we also propose an ensemble model that consists of multiple classifiers. Each classifier is trained with features extracted from different multi-time windows. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed feature extraction technique and ensemble model, a public three-dimensional gait dataset was used. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed ensemble model achieves the best performance compared to machine learning models trained with existing feature extraction techniques for four performance evaluation metrics.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.968-976
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• 2014

Authentication methods on smartphone are demanded to be implicit to users with minimum users' interaction. Existing authentication methods (e.g. PINs, passwords, visual patterns, etc.) are not effectively considering remembrance and privacy issues. Behavioral biometrics such as keystroke dynamics and gait biometrics can be acquired easily and implicitly by using integrated sensors on smartphone. We propose a biometric model involving keystroke dynamics for implicit authentication on smartphone. We first design a feature extraction method for keystroke dynamics. And then, we build a fusion model of keystroke dynamics and gait to improve the authentication performance of single behavioral biometric on smartphone. We operate the fusion at both feature extraction level and matching score level. Experiment using linear Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifier reveals that the best results are achieved with score fusion: a recognition rate approximately 97.86% under identification mode and an error rate approximately 1.11% under authentication mode.