• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.371-373
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 컬러 영상 기반에서 배경에 강인한 피부 영역 검출 기법을 제안하고 손 인식기법을 활용한 응용프로그램을 제안한다. 코드북 모델[1]을 이용하여 배경/전경을 분리하고, 분리된 전경에서 피부색정보를 이용하여 관심영역을 도출한다. 피부 영역을 검출하기 위한 단계에서는 YCbCr, HSV, LUV 색상 모델의 혼합하여 피부색 후보 영역에 대한 임계구간을 통해 강인한 피부 영역을 분할한다. 분할된 영역을 관심영역으로 설정하고 Kalman filter를 이용하여 영역을 추적한다. 결과적으로 복잡하고 고정된 배경에서 조명에 강인한 피부 영역 분할 및 추적이 가능하며 이를 응용한 사용자 인터페이스로 사용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06c
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• pp.215-218
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• 2002

Gesture recognitions needed for various applications and is now gaining in importance as one method of enabling natural and intuitive human machine communication. In this paper, we propose a real time hand-signal recognition system in 3-dimensional space performs robust, real-time tracking under varying illumination. As compared with the existing method using classical pattern matching, this system is efficient with respect to speed and also presents more systematic way of defining hand-signals and developing a hand-signal recognition system. In order to verify the proposed method, we developed a virtual driving system operated by hand-signals.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.178-183
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• 2008

Human motion analysis is researched as a new method for human-robot interaction (HRI) because it concerns with the key techniques of HRI such as motion tracking and pose recognition. To analysis human motion, extracting features of human body from sequential images plays an important role. After finding the silhouette of human body from the sequential images obtained by CCD color camera, the skeleton model is frequently used in order to represent the human motion. In this paper, using the silhouette of human body, we propose the feature extraction method based on hybrid skeleton for detecting human motion. Finally, we show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method through some experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.424-426
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 컬러영상 기반에서 배경과 잡음에 강인한 적응적 임계값 기반의 피부영역 기법을 제안하고 이를 활용한 응용프로그램을 제안한다. 배경과 전경을 분리시키는 코드북 알고리즘을 사용하여 배경을 제거하고, 분리된 영역에서 매 프레임 임계값과 모션에 따른 화소값을 검사하여 피부영역의 임계값을 갱신한다. 결과적으로 조명과 배경에 강인한 피부 영역 검출이 가능하며 이를 응용하여 사용자 인터페이스에 적용이 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.594-596
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 손 모션에 대하여 피부색 검출을 기반으로 전역적인 모션을 추적하고 모션 벡터를 생성하여 제스처를 인식하는 방법을 제안한다. 추적을 위하여 Shi-Tomasi 특징점 검출 방법과 Lucas-Kanade 옵티컬 플로우 추정 방법을 사용한다. 손 모션을 추적하는 경우 손의 모양이 다양하게 변화하므로 초기에 검출된 특징점을 계속적으로 추적하는 일반적인 방법으로는 손의 모션을 제대로 추적할 수 없다. 이에 본 논문에서는 프레임마다 새로운 특징점을 검출한 후 옵티컬 플로우를 추정하고 이상치(outlier)를 제거하여 손 모양의 변화에도 추적을 통한 모션 벡터 생성이 가능하도록 한다. 모션 벡터들로 인공 신경망을 사용한 판별 과정을 수행하여 최종적으로 손 모션 제스처에 대한 인식이 가능하도록 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.537-542
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• 2011

A mirror neuron is a neuron fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. We propose a method of 3D reconstruction for occluded object motion tracking like Mirror Neuron System to fire in hidden condition. For modeling system that intention recognition through fire effect like Mirror Neuron System, we calculate depth information using stereo image from a stereo camera and reconstruct three dimension data. Movement direction of object is estimated by optical flow with three-dimensional image data created by three dimension reconstruction. For three dimension reconstruction that enables tracing occluded part, first, picture data was get by stereo camera. Result of optical flow is made be robust to noise by the kalman filter estimation algorithm. Image data is saved as history from reconstructed three dimension image through motion tracking of object. When whole or some part of object is disappeared form stereo camera by other objects, it is restored to bring image date form history of saved past image and track motion of object.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.1564-1572
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new histogram based hand recognition algorithm for augmented reality. Hand recognition system makes it possible a useful interaction between an user and computer. However, there is difficulty in vision-based hand gesture recognition with viewing angle dependency due to the complexity of human hand shape. A new hand recognition system proposed in this paper is based on the features from hand geometry. The proposed recognition system consists of two steps. In the first step, hand region is extracted from the image captured by a camera and then hand gestures are recognized in the second step. At first, we extract hand region by deleting background and using skin color information. Then we recognize hand shape by determining hand feature point using histogram of the obtained hand region. Finally, we design a augmented reality system by controlling a 3D object with the recognized hand gesture. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm gives more than 91% accuracy for the hand recognition with less computational power.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.1630-1642
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• 2010

Recently, there is an increasing need for developing the technique of Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR), for vision based interface. Since hand gesture is defined as consecutive change of hand posture, developing the algorithm of Hand Posture Recognition (HPR) is required. Among the factors that decrease the performance of HPR, we focus on rotation factor. To achieve rotation invariant HPR, we propose a method that uses the property of video that adjacent frames in video have high correlation, considering the environment of HGR. The proposed method introduces template update of object tracking using the above mentioned property, which is different from previous works based on still images. To compare our proposed method with previous methods such as template matching, PCA and LBP, we performed experiments with video that has hand rotation. The accuracy rate of the proposed method is 22.7%, 14.5%, 10.7% and 4.3% higher than ordinary template matching, template matching using KL-Transform, PCA and LBP, respectively.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1-10
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• 2011

In this paper, we proposed the skin color based hand and finger detection technology for the gesture recognition in CCTV surveillance. The aim of this paper is to present the methodology for hand detection and propose the finger detection method. The detected hand and finger can be used to implement the non-contact mouse. This technology can be used to control the home devices such as home-theater and television. Skin color is used to segment the hand region from background and contour is extracted from the segmented hand. Analysis of contour gives us the location of finger tip in the hand. After detecting the location of the fingertip, this system tracks the fingertip by using only R channel alone, and in recognition of hand motions to apply differential image, such as the removal of useless image shows a robust side. We explain about experiment which relates in fingertip tracking and finger gestures recognition, and experiment result shows the accuracy above 96%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.9
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• pp.1828-1836
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• 2015

Object tracking algorithms can reduce computational cost by avoiding computation over the whole image through the selection of region of interests based on object detection. So, accurate object detection is an important task for object tracking. The background subtraction algorithm has been widely used in moving object detection using a stationary camera. However, it has the problem of object detection error due to incorrect background modeling, whereas the method of background modeling has been improved by many researches. This paper proposes a new moving object detection algorithm to overcome the drawback of the conventional background subtraction algorithm by combining the background subtraction algorithm with the motion history image algorithm that is usually used in gesture detection. Although the proposed algorithm demands more processing time because of time taken for combining two algorithms, it meet the real-time processing requirement. Moreover, experimental results show that it has higher accuracy compared with the previous two algorithms.