• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new multiobjective optimization method for discriminative training of hidden Markov models (HMMs) used as the recognizer for automatic lipreading. While the conventional Baum-Welch algorithm for training HMMs aims at maximizing the probability of the data of a class from the corresponding HMM, we define a new training criterion composed of two minimization objectives and develop a global optimization method of the criterion based on simulated annealing. The result of a speaker-dependent recognition experiment shows that the proposed method improves performance by the relative error reduction rate of about 8% in comparison to the Baum-Welch algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.274-274
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• 2000

In the future, the convenient speech command system will become an widely-using interface in automation systems. But the previous research in speech recognition didn't give satisfactory recognition results for the practical realization in the noise environment. The purpose of this research is the development of a practical system, which reliably recognizes the speech command of the registered users, by complementing an existing research which used the image information with the speech signal. For the lip-reading feature extraction from a image, we used the DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform), which reduces the size and gives useful characteristics of the original image. And to enhance the robustness to the environmental changes of speakers, we acquired the speech signal by stereo method. We designed an economic stand-alone system, which adopted a Bt829 and an AD1819B with a TMS320C31 DSP based add-on board.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.123-132
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• 2001

In recent years research on HCI technology has been very active and speech recognition is being used as its typical method. Its recognition, however, is deteriorated with the increase of surrounding noise. To solve this problem, studies concerning the multimodal HCI are being briskly made. This paper describes automated lipreading for bimodal speech recognition on the basis of image- and speech information. It employs audio-visual DB containing 1,074 words from 70 voice and tri-viseme as a recognition unit, and state tied HMM as a recognition model. Performance of automated recognition of 22 to 1,000 words are evaluated to achieve word recognition of 60.5% in terms of 22word recognizer.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1993.06a
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• pp.903-906
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• 1993

Lipreading through visual processing techniques help provide some useful systems for the hearing impaired to learn communication assistance. This paper proposes a method to understand spoken words by using visual images taken by a camera with a video-digitizer. The image is processed to obtain the contours of lip, which is approximated into a hexagon. The pattern lists, consisting of lengths and angles of hexagon, are compared and computed to get the fuzzy similarity between two lists. By similarity matching, the mouth shape is recognized as the one which has the pronounced voice. Some experiments, exemplified by recognition of the Japanese vowels, are given to show feasibilities of this method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.105-114
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• 2000

In this paper, we concentrate on an efficient method to decrease a lot of pixel data to be processed with an Image transform based automatic lipreading It is reported that the image transform based approach, which obtains a compressed representation of the speaker's mouth, results in superior lipreading performance than the lip contour based approach But this approach produces so many feature parameters of the lip that has much data and requires much computation time for recognition To reduce the data to be computed, we propose a simple method folding at the vertical center of the lip-image based on the symmetry of the lip In addition, the principal component analysis(PCA) is used for fast algorithm and HMM word recognition results are reported The proposed method reduces the number of the feature parameters at $22{\sim}47%$ and improves hidden Markov model(HMM)word recognition rates at $2{\sim}3%$, using the folded lip-image compared with the normal method using $16{\times}16$ lip-image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.181-185
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• 1998

Recently, research and developmental direction of communication system is concurrent adopting voice data and face image in speaking to provide more higher recognition rate then in the case of only voice data. Therefore, we present a method of lipreading in speech image sequence by using the 3-D facial shape model. The method use a feature information of the face image such as the opening-level of lip, the movement of jaw, and the projection height of lip. At first, we adjust the 3-D face model to speeching face image sequence. Then, to get a feature information we compute variance quantity from adjusted 3-D shape model of image sequence and use the variance quality of the adjusted 3-D model as recognition parameters. We use the intensity inclination values which obtaining from the variance in 3-D feature points as the separation of recognition units from the sequential image. After then, we use discrete HMM algorithm at recognition process, depending on multiple observation sequence which considers the variance of 3-D feature point fully. As a result of recognition experiment with the 8 Korean vowels and 2 Korean consonants, we have about 80% of recognition rate for the plosives and vowels.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.7C
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• pp.598-603
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• 2010

In this paper, we work for Lipreading using visual information for ship environment. Lipreading is studied for using image information including lips of a speaker at the existing speech recognition system. This technique is a compensation method to increase recognition rate decreasing remarkably in noisy circumstances. Proposed way improved the rate of recognition improving methode of preprocessing using the Gabor Filter for Ship Environment. The experiment were carried out under changing of light with time in the ship environment with lip image. For Comparing with recognition, make a compare with between method of lip region of interest (ROI) before Gabor filtering and after Gabor filtering. In the case of using method of lip ROI before Gabor filtering, the result of the experiments applying to the proposed ways recognition resulting in 44% of recognition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.135-140
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• 2009

본 논문은 한국어 8 단모음을 인식하는 자동 독화 신경망 시스템을 구축한 것이다. 얼굴의 특정들은 휘도와 채도 성분으로 인하여 다양한 색 공간에서 다양한 표현 값을 갖는다. 이를 이용하여 각 표현 값들을 증폭하거나 축소, 대비시킴으로서 얼굴 특정들을 추출되게 하였다. 눈과 코, 안쪽 입의 외곽선, 이의 외곽선을 찾았고, 그 후 한국어 8모음 발화시 구분되게 변화는 값들을 파라미터로 설정하였다. 한국어 8모음을 발화하는 2400개의 자료를 모아 분석하고 이 분석을 바탕으로 신경망 시스템을 구축하여 실험하였다. 이 실험에 정상인 5명이 동원되었고, 사람들 사이에 있는 관찰 오차를 정규화를 통하여 수정하였다. 5명으로 분석하였고, 5명으로 인식 실험하여 좋은 결과를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.310-313
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• 2003

최근 들어 립리딩은 멀티모달 인터페이스 기술의 응용분야에서 많은 관심을 모으고 있다. 동적영상을 이용한 립리딩 시스템에서 해결해야 할 주된 문제점은 상황 변화에 독립적으로 얼굴 영역과 입술 영역을 추출하고 오프라인이 아닌 실시간으로 입력된 입술 영상의 인식을 처리하여 립리딩의 사용도를 높이는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 쉽게 사용할 수 있는 PC카메라를 사용하여 영상을 입력받아 학습과 인식을 실시간으로 처리하는 립리딩 시스템을 구현하였다. 본 논문에서는 움직임이 있는 화자의 얼굴영역과 입술영역을 컬러, 조명등의 변화에 독립적으로 추출하기 위해 HSI모델을 이용하였다. 입력 영상에서 일정한 크기의 영역에 대한 색도 히스토그램 모델을 만들어 색도 영상에 적용함으로써 얼굴영역의 확률 분포를 구하였고, Mean-Shift Algorithm을 이용하여 얼굴영역의 검출과 추적을 하였다. 특징 점 추출에는 이미지 기반 방법인 PCA 기법을 이용하였고, HMM 기반 패턴 인식을 사용하여 실시간으로 실험영상데이터에 대한 학습과 인식을 수행할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.524-527
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• 2003

최근 들어 립리딩은 멀티모달 인터페이스 기술의 응용분야에서 많은 관심을 모으고 있다. 동적 영상을 이용한 립리딩 시스템에서 해결해야 할 주된 문제점은 상황 변화에 독립적인 얼굴 영역과 입술 영역을 추출하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 움직임이 있는 영상에서 화자의 얼굴영역과 입술영역을 컬러, 조명등의 변화에 독립적으로 추출하기 위해 HSI 모델과 블록 매칭을 이용하였고 특징 점 추출에는 이미지 기반 방법인 PCA 기법을 이용하였다. 추출된 입술 파라미터와 음성 데이터에 각각 HMM 기반 패턴 인식 방법을 개별적으로 적용하여 단어를 인식하였고 각각의 인식 결과를 가중치를 주어 합병하였다. 실험 결과에 의하면 잡음으로 음성 인식률이 낮아지는 경우에 음성인식과 립리딩을 함께 사용함으로써 전체적인 인식 결과를 향상시킬 수 있었다.