• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.333-334
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• 2008

A real-time face tracking is a broad topic, covering a large spectrum of technologies and applications. Briefly face tracking is a kind of tracing technique which follows human face in any directions. It needs some algorithms such as human face detection and motion controller to track face. Moreover, both processing time and calculation time are the most important factors that influence to drive tracking system. In this paper, two algorithms are used to find human face: earn-shift algorithm and face detection algorithm using OpenCV. Fuzzy controller is utilized to move pan-tilt camera system which can move four directions along to x-y axis.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.839-844
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• 2009

In this paper, a real-time eye tracking method using fast face detection is proposed. Most of the current eye tracking systems have operational limitations due to sensors, complicated backgrounds, and uneven lighting condition. It also suffers from slow response time which is not proper for a real-time application. The tracking performance is low under complicated background and uneven lighting condition. The proposed algorithm detects face region from acquired image using elliptic Hough transform followed by eye detection within the detected face region using Haar-like features. In order to reduce the computation time in tracking eyes, the algorithm predicts next frame search region from the information obtained in the current frame. Experiments through simulation show good performance of the proposed method under various environments.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.317-320
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• 2003

In this paper, we present real-time, accurate face region detection and tracking technique for an intelligent surveillance system. It is very important to obtain the high-resolution images, which enables accurate identification of an object-of-interest. Conventional surveillance or security systems, however, usually provide poor image quality because they use one or more fixed cameras and keep recording scenes without any clue. We implemented a real-time surveillance system that tracks a moving person using pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. While tracking, the region-of-interest (ROI) can be obtained by using a low-pass filter and background subtraction. Color information in the ROI is updated to extract features for optimal tracking and zooming. The experiment with real human faces showed highly acceptable results in the sense of both accuracy and computational efficiency.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.397-398
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• 2007

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.241-249
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• 2007

This paper describes a real-time face tracking system using effective detector and Kalman filter. In the proposed system, an image is separated into a background and an object using a real-time updated face color for effective face detection. The face features are extracted using the five types of simple Haar-like features. The extracted features are reinterpreted using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and interpreted principal components are used for Support Vector Machine (SVM) that classifies the faces and non-faces. The moving face is traced with Kalman filter, which uses the static information of the detected faces and the dynamic information of changes between previous and current frames. The proposed system sets up an initial skin color and updates a region of a skin color through a moving skin color in a real time. It is possible to remove a background which has a similar color with a skin through updating a skin color in a real time. Also, as reducing a potential-face region using a skin color, the performance is increased up to 50% when comparing to the case of extracting features from a whole region.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2009년도 학술대회
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• pp.146-149
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• 2009

실시간 영상에서 사람의 얼굴 검출은 얼굴 인식분야에 있어서 주요한 관심 분야 중의 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 입력되는 영상에서 피부 색상과 Haar-like feature를 이용한 얼굴 검출 및 추적 알고리듬을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리듬은 컬러 색 공간에서 피부색상과 특징점을 가지고 얼굴 영역 및 추적하였다. 실험 결과 실시간 영상에 대해 조명 변화 및 가림 현상에서 강건한 추적 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권9호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2009

사람의 얼굴 추적은 디지털 캠코더, 디지털 카메라, 휴대폰 등과 같은 휴대용 멀티미디어 장치에 대해 점차 중요한 이슈가 되어 왔다. 갈수록 확대되어 가는 얼굴 추적 응용 서비스 요구에 대해 소프트웨어 구현 대응은 성능 및 전력 소모 면에서 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 실시간으로 동작할 수 있는 하드웨어 기반의 저전력 얼굴 추적 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템은 FPGA 프로토타이핑과 삼성 65nm CMOS 공정으로 구현하여 검증하였고, 8.4 msec 미만의 추적 속도와 15만 게이트의 크기를 가지며 평균 20 mW의 동작 전력소모를 보여 실시간으로 동작하는 저전력 휴대용 멀티미디어 기기에 적합함을 입증하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제9권10호
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• pp.1266-1275
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• 2006

본 논문은 AdaBoost(Adaptive Boosting)알고리즘을 이용한 실시간 얼굴 검출 및 추적에 패한 기법을 제안한다. 얼굴 검출은 8종류의 간단한 웨이블릿 특징 모형을 이용한다. 각각의 특징들은 $20{\times}20$의 훈련 영상에서 다양한 크기와 위치로 배치되어 초기의 특징 집합을 구성한다. 초기의 특징 집합과 훈련 영상은 AdaBoost알고리즘의 입력으로 사용된다. AdaBoost알고리즘의 기본원리는 약한 분류기를 선형적으로 결합하여 최종적으로는 계층적 구조를 갖는 강한 분류기론 생성하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 AdaBoost알고리즘에서 훈련 영상과 초기의 특징 집합 간에 이루어지는 반복적 계산량을 줄이기 위해 SAT(Summed-Area Table) 기법을 이용하였다. 얼굴 추적은 Pan-Tilt카메라를 통해 동적으로 가시 영역을 확장해 가면서 검출된 영역의 위치와 크기정보를 이용하여 실시간으로 이루어진다. 검출된 얼굴 영역의 중심을 전체 영상의 중심으로 이동하는 방법을 사용하였다. 실험결과 92.5%의 얼굴 검출율과 평균 12프레임의 얼굴 추적속도를 얻었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.162-170
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• 2014

Appearance-based subspace models such as eigenfaces have been widely recognized as one of the most successful approaches to face recognition and tracking. The success of eigenfaces mainly has its origins in the benefits offered by principal component analysis (PCA), the representational power of the underlying generative process for high-dimensional noisy facial image data. The sparse extension of PCA (SPCA) has recently received significant attention in the research community. SPCA functions by imposing sparseness constraints on the eigenvectors, a technique that has been shown to yield more robust solutions in many applications. However, when SPCA is applied to facial images, the time and space complexity of PCA learning becomes a critical issue (e.g., real-time tracking). In this paper, we propose a very fast and scalable greedy forward selection algorithm for SPCA. Unlike a recent semidefinite program-relaxation method that suffers from complex optimization, our approach can process several thousands of data dimensions in reasonable time with little accuracy loss. The effectiveness of our proposed method was demonstrated on real-world face recognition and tracking datasets.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.610-619
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• 2015

*In this paper, we propose a real-time face tracking system using an adaptive face detector and a tracking algorithm. An image is divided into the regions of background and face candidate by a real-time updated skin color identifying system in order to accurately detect facial features. The facial characteristics are extracted using the five types of simple Haar-like features. The extracted features are reinterpreted by Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and the interpreted principal components are processed by Support Vector Machine (SVM) that classifies into facial and non-facial areas. The movement of the face is traced by Kalman filter and Mean shift, which use the static information of the detected faces and the differences between previous and current frames. The proposed system identifies the initial skin color and updates it through a real-time color detecting system. A similar background color can be removed by updating the skin color. Also, the performance increases up to 20% when the background color is reduced in comparison to extracting features from the entire region. The increased detection rate and speed are acquired by the usage of Kalman filter and Mean shift.