• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.5507-5528
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• 2016

In computer vision, salient object is important to extract the useful information of foreground. With active contour analysis acting as the core in this paper, we propose a bottom-up saliency detection algorithm combining with the Bayesian model and the global color distribution. Under the supports of active contour model, a more accurate foreground can be obtained as a foundation for the Bayesian model and the global color distribution. Furthermore, we establish a contour-based selection mechanism to optimize the global-color distribution, which is an effective revising approach for the Bayesian model as well. To obtain an excellent object contour, we firstly intensify the object region in the source gray-scale image by a seed-based method. The final saliency map can be detected after weighting the color distribution to the Bayesian saliency map, after both of the two components are available. The contribution of this paper is that, comparing the Harris-based convex hull algorithm, the active contour can extract a more accurate and non-convex foreground. Moreover, the global color distribution can solve the saliency-scattered drawback of Bayesian model, by the mutual complementation. According to the detected results, the final saliency maps generated with considering the global color distribution and active contour are much-improved.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.175-182
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• 2010

The paper presents a novel algorithm for face and iris detection with the application for driver iris monitoring. The proposed algorithm consists of the following major steps: Skin-color segmentation, facial features segmentation, and iris positioning. For the skin-segmentation we applied a multi-layer perceptron to approximate the statistical probability of certain skin-colors, and filter out those with low probabilities. The next step segments the face region into the following categories: eye, mouth, eye brow, and remaining facial regions. For this purpose we propose a novel segmentation technique based on estimation of facial class probability density functions (PDF). Each facial class PDF is estimated on the basis of salient features extracted from a corresponding facial image region. Then pixels are classified according to the highest probability selected from four estimated PDFs. The final step applies the circular Hough transform to the detected eye regions to extract the position and radius of the iris. We tested our system on two data sets. The first one is obtained from the Web and contains faces under different illuminations. The second dataset was collected by us. It contains images obtained from video sequences recorded by a CCD camera while a driver was driving a car. The experimental results are presented, showing high detection rates.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.428-431
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 분별력 있는 색상 채널 선택을 통한 두드러진 영역 검출 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 우선 분별력 있는 색상 채널의 선택을 위해 입력영상을 10개의 색상 채널로 변경하고, 각 채널을 NxN 블록으로 나눈다. 그리고 각 채널에서 나누어진 N 블록을 외각 블록, 중앙 블록으로 선정하고 중앙-외각 블록간의 대비와 외각 블록의 표준편차 정보를 이용하여 색상 채널 경쟁을 한다. 색상 채널 경쟁을 통해 선별된 K개의 색상 채널을 이용하여 특징맵을 만들고 이를 조합하여 두드러진 맵을 얻는다. 실험에서는 제안된 방법을 총 1000장의 자연 영상에 적용하여 성능을 평가하였으며, 83%의 평균 정확도를 보임으로써 기존 방법들보다 성능이 뛰어남을 확인하였다.