• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.218-221
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to detect human faces for controling a camera used in video conference. We model the distribution of skin color and set up the standard skin color in YIQ color space. An input video frame image is segmented into skin and non-skin segments by comparing the standard skin color and each pixels in the input video frame. Then, shape filler is applied to select face segments from skin segments. Our algorithm detects human faces in real time to control a camera to capture a human face with a proper size and position.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 제14회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.139-142
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• 2001

This paper presents a highly fast and accurate facial region extraction method by using the skin-color-reference map and motion information. First, we construct the robust skin-color-reference map and eliminate the background in image by this map. Additionally, we use the motion information for accurate and fast detection of facial region in image sequences. Then we further apply region growing in the remaining areas with the aid of proposed criteria. The simulation results show the improvement in execution time and accurate detection.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.828-831
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 얼굴을 검출하기 위해서 컬러영상에서 눈동자 템플릿을 사용한 얼굴을 검출하는 방법에 관해 제안하였다. 전체 시스템의 구성은 크게 피부색 모델에 의한 피부 영역을 검출하고 검출된 피부 영역에 타원을 적용하여 얼굴영역을 찾은 뒤 템플릿을 사용하여 눈동자를 추출하여 정규화 된 얼굴을 검출하는 단계로 이루어 졌다. 특히 타원을 적용할 때와 눈동자 템플릿을 적용할 때는 모멘트를 사용하였으며, 눈동자를 추출할 때 벡터를 기반으로 하기 때문에 사이즈에 제한 없이 자유로운 변형이 가능할 뿐만 아니라 눈동자 템플릿을 사용하면 눈동자의 위치와 크기를 동시에 얻어 낼 수 있었다. 마지막으로 이렇게 검출된 얼굴을 기울어진 각도만큼 회전시켜 정규화 된 얼굴을 검출 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2014

Usually, the skin pigmentation detection and diagnosis are made by clinicians. In this process it is subjective and non-quantitative. We develop an approach to detect and measure the different pigmentation lesions base on computer vision technology. In the paper we study several usually used skin-detecting color space like HSV, YCbCr and normalized RGB. We compare their performance with illumination influence for detecting the pigmentation lesions better. Base on a relatively stable color space, we propose an approach which is RGB channels vector difference characteristic for the detection. After the object region detection, we also use the difference to measure the difference between the lesion and the surrounding normal skin. From the experiment results, our approach can effectively detect the pigmentation lesion, and perform robustness with different illumination.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2003년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.30 No.2 (2)
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• pp.559-561
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• 2003

Human face detection plays an important role in variable applications. A face detection method based on skin-color information and facial feature in color images is proposed in this paper. First, the RGB color space is transformed to YCbCr space and only the skin region is extracted with the skin color information. And then, the candidate where face is likely to exist is selected after labeling processing. Finally, we detect facial features in face candidate. The experimental results show that the method proposed here is effective.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1048-1052
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• 2004

In this work, we have investigated a role of linking parameter in Pulse-Coupled Neural Network(PCNN) which is suggested to explain the synchronous activities among neurons in the cat cortex. Then we have found a method to determine the linking parameter for a satisfactory face detection performance in a given color image. Face detection algorithm which uses the color information is independent on pose, size and obstruction of a face. But the use of color information encounters some problems arising from skin-tone color in the background, intensity variation within faces, and presence of random noise and so on. Depending on these conditions, PCNN's linking parameters should be selected an appropriate values. First we obtained the mean and variance of the skin-tone colors by experiments. Then, we introduced a preprocess that the pixel with a mean value of skin-tone colors has the highest level value (255) and the other pixels have values between 0 and 255 according to normal distribution with a variance. This preprocessing leads to an easy decision of the linking parameter of the Pulse-Coupled Neural Network. Through experiments, it is verified that the proposed method can improve the face detection performance compared to the existing methods.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권9C호
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• pp.1258-1268
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• 2004

비디오화상회의 시스템을 위하여 동영상 압축 DCT 계수와 피부색정보를 이용하여 주파수 영역에서 정연 얼굴 을 실시간으로 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 동영상 압축과정 중에 얻어지는 DCT계수 값의 U 와 V 색상정보로 피부색 범위를 추출하며 잡음성분제거를 위해 형태학적필터와 Labeling을 적용하고 피부색블록의 방향성과 평탄도를 고려하여 검출하였다. 제안 알고리즘은, 배경에 피부색과 유사한 객체가 있는 경우와 배경이 단순한 경우에 대 해 적응적으로 검출이 가능하도록 하였다 여러 인종에 대한 모의실험결과 제안 알고리즘이 약 94% 의 검출 성공률을 보였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.127-130
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• 2007

화상 통신과 보안 시스템에서 얼굴 인식을 위한 얼굴영역을 검출하는 연구가 대두되며, 이러한 연구의 전 처리 단계로써 YCbCr 색 좌표계에서 색 정보를 이용하여 피부영역만을 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. CbCr 색 정보를 이용한 기존의 피부 영역 검출 알고리즘의 경우, 실외나 카메라 풀래시를 사용하였을 때 반사광에 의해 밝게 나타난 피부 영역에서 검출 손상이 발생하는 문제점이 나타났다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 어떠한 환경에서도 피부색만을 정확하게 검출하기 위해 기존의 알고리즘을 개선하여 Cb, Cr 뿐만 아니라 Y(Luminance) 값까지 모두 고려한 3-channel 구조의 피부 검출 시스템을 제안한다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.681-682
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• 2008

This paper propose skin color detection that uses MLP(Multi Layer Perceptron) and multiple color models. The proposed method reduces weight of MLP by partial connection between input layer and hidden layer based on color models, and the using color models are RGB model and YCbCr model. The experimental result for proposed method showed 94% classification rate of skin and non-skin pixels with 32% decrease in the number of weight compare to general MLP on the average.

• 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.