• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.834-848
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• 2013

To effectively use these functions many kinds of human-phone interface are used such as touch, voice, and gesture. However, the most important touch interface cannot be used in case of hand disabled person or busy both hands. Although eye tracking is a superb human-computer interface method, it has not been applied to smartphones because of the small screen size, the frequently changing geometric position between the user's face and phone screen, and the low resolution of the frontal cameras. In this paper, a new eye tracking method is proposed to act as a smartphone user interface. To maximize eye image resolution, a zoom lens and three infrared LEDs are adopted. Our proposed method has following novelties. Firstly, appropriate camera specification and image resolution are analyzed in order to smartphone based gaze tracking method. Secondly, facial movement is allowable in case of one eye region is included in image. Thirdly, the proposed method can be operated in case of both landscape and portrait screen modes. Fourthly, only two LED reflective positions are used in order to calculate gaze position on the basis of 2D geometric relation between reflective rectangle and screen. Fifthly, a prototype mock-up design module is made in order to confirm feasibility for applying to actual smart-phone. Experimental results showed that the gaze estimation error was about 31 pixels at a screen resolution of $480{\times}800$ and the average hit ratio of a $5{\times}4$ icon grid was 94.6%.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.1003-1006
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• 1999

Hand segmentation and tracking is essential to the development of a hand gesture recognition system. This research features segementation and tracking of hand regions based the hue component of color. We propose a method that employs HSI color model, and segments and tracks hand regions using the hue component of color alone. In order to track the segmented hand regions, we only apply Kalman filter to a region of interest represented by a rectangle region. Initial experimental results show that the system accurately segments and tracks hand regions although it only uses the hue compoent of color. The system yields near real time throghput of 8 frames per second on a Pentium II 233MHz PC.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.3971-3975
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• 2013

This paper introduces an Augmented Reality system recognizing hand gestures and shows results of the evaluation. The system's user can interact with artificial objects and manipulate their position and motions simply by his hand gestures. Hand gesture recognition is based on Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG). Salient features of human hand appearance are detected by HOG blocks. Blocks of different sizes are tested to define the most suitable configuration. To select the most informative blocks for classification multiclass AdaBoostSVM algorithm is applied. Evaluated recognition rate of the algorithm is 94.0%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.141-144
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 컴퓨터 비전에 기반을 둔 방법으로 실시간으로 사람의 손의 모양을 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기본적인 전처리 과정과 피부 값의 검출을 통해서 사용자의 피부색상을 검출한 후 팔 영역과 얼굴영역을 제거하고, 손 영역만 검출한 뒤 손의 무게중심을 구한다. 그 후에 손의 궤적을 추적하기 위해 칼만필터를 이용하였으며, 손의 모양을 인식하기 위한 방법으로 Hidden Markov Model을 이용하여 사용자의 손 모양 6가지를 학습한 후 인식하였다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법의 효과를 입증하였다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.411-417
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• 2009

We proposed a robust body part tracking system for intelligent environment that will not limit freedom of users. Unlike any previous gesture recognizer, we upgraded the generality of the system by creating the ability the ability to recognize details, such as, the ability to detect the difference between long sleeves and short sleeves. For the precise each body part tracking, we obtained the image of hands, head, and feet separately from a single camera, and when detecting each body part, we separately chose the appropriate feature for certain parts. Using a calibrated camera, we transferred 2D detected body parts into the 3D posture. In the experimentation, this system showed advanced hand tracking performance in real time(50fps).

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2014

Recently, many human-friendly communication methods have been studied for human-machine interface(HMI) without using any physical devices. One of them is the vision-based gesture recognition that this paper deals with. In this paper, we define some gestures for interaction with objects in a predefined virtual world, and propose an efficient method to recognize them. For preprocessing, we detect and track the both hands, and extract their silhouettes from the low-resolution hand images captured by a webcam. We modeled skin color by two Gaussian distributions in RGB color space and use blob-matching method to detect and track the hands. Applying the foodfill algorithm we extracted hand silhouettes and recognize the hand shapes of Thumb-Up, Palm and Cross by detecting and analyzing their modes. Then, with analyzing the context of hand movement, we recognized five predefined one-hand or both-hand gestures. Assuming that one main user shows up for accurate hand detection, the proposed gesture recognition method has been proved its efficiency and accuracy in many real-time demos.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.636-642
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• 2017

In this paper, We proposed a novel hand-gesture recognition algorithm using concentric-circle expanding and tracing. The proposed algorithm determines region of interest of hand image through preprocessing the original image acquired by web-camera and extracts the feature of hand gesture such as the number of stretched fingers, finger tips and finger bases, angle between the fingers which can be used as intuitive method for of human computer interaction. The proposed algorithm also reduces computational complexity compared with raster scan method through referencing only pixels of concentric-circles. The experimental result shows that the 9 hand gestures can be recognized with an average accuracy of 90.7% and an average algorithm execution time is 78ms. The algorithm is confirmed as a feasible way to a useful input method for virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and perceptual interfaces of human computer interaction.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.105-115
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• 2009

This article proposes a design and implementation methodology of a gesture-based interface for augmented reality games. The topic of gesture-based augmented reality games is a promising area in the immersive future games using human body motions. However, due to the instability of the current motion recognition technologies, most previous development processes have introduced many ad hoc methods to handle the shortcomings and, hence, the game architectures have become highly irregular and inefficient This article proposes an efficient development methodology for gesture-based augmented reality games through prototyping a table tennis game with a gesture interface. We also verify the applicability of the prototyping mechanism by implementing and demonstrating the augmented reality table tennis game. In the experiments, the implemented prototype has stably tracked real rackets to allow fast movements and interactions without delay.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08b
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• pp.1227-1230
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• 2007

This paper describes recent advances in the R&D work achieved at Fraunhofer HHI (Germany) that are believed to provide key technologies for the development of future human-machine interfaces. The paper focus on the area of vision based interaction technologies that will be one essential component in future three-dimensional display systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.146-147
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• 2016

손동작 인식은 대부분 스킨 컬러 검출을 이용하였다. 하지만 이와 같은 방법으로는 빛이나 주변 사물에 의해 영향을 많이 받기 때문에 정확한 값을 일정하게 도출 해낼 수 없었다. 이에 본 논문은 운동축적 기법을 이용하여 움직임을 파악한 후 손의 움직임을 트랙킹하여 운동 방향을 구한다. 제안된 시스템은 C/C++을 기반으로 구현하여, 실험에서 제안 방법이 안정적이고 우수한 성능을 보여줌을 증명하였다.