• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.496-505
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• 2020

Background: Panax ginseng is a marvelous herbal remedy for all ailments of body. That may be why it is called Panax, which means "cure for all". Melanin is a pigment that gives color to our skin; however, increased melanin production can lead to tumor formation. Human exposure to ultraviolet B radiation has increased extensively owing to the increased sunlight due to global warming. Consequently, a phenomenon called photoaging has been observed for all skin colors and types. As a result of this phenomenon, a set of enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases, which serve as degradation enzymes for extracellular matrix proteins, mainly collagen, is increased, causing depletion of collagen and resulting in early wrinkle formation. Methods: Therefore, in our study, we used the murine melanoma cell line B16/F10 to study the inhibition of melanogenesis by Korean Red Ginseng (KRG) extract in vitro and HRM-2 hairless mice exposed to artificial ultraviolet B to examine the efficacy of KRG in vivo. We prepared a 3% red ginseng extract cream and evaluated its effects on human skin. Results: Our results demonstrated that KRG induced potent suppression of tyrosinase activity and melanin production in B16/F10 cells; moreover, it reduced the transcription and translation of components involved in the melanin production pathway. In the in vivo experiments, KRG potently suppressed the expression of matrix metalloproteinases, reduced wrinkle formation, and inhibited collagen degradation. On human skin, ginseng cream increased skin resilience and skin moisture and enhanced skin tone. Conclusion: Therefore, we conclude that KRG is an excellent skin whitening and antiaging product.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.125-136
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• 2019

The radish skin and radish greens are an edible part of the radish. But they are removed before eating the radish and used as a byproduct or an animal feed material because of their tough and rough texture. Melanin is a pigment that gives colour to our skin. But increased production of melanin can turn into benign or malignant tumours. These days due to global warming, the amount of Ultra violet (UVB) rays has been extensively increased with sunlight. Due to this, a phenomenon called exogenous photo aging is widely observed for all skin colour and types. As a result of this phenomenon, a set of enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMP's) that serves as degradation enzymes for extracellular matrix proteins mainly collagen is increased, causing depletion in collagen and resulting in early wrinkles formation. Therefore in our study we used the murine melanoma cell line B16/F10 to study the melanogenesis inhibition by Heated radish extract (HRE) in vitro and we used HRM-2 hair less mice exposed to artificial UVB for checking the efficacy of Heated radish extract in vivo. Furthermore, we prepared a 3% Heated radish extract (HRE) cream and checked its effects on human skin. Our results have clearly demonstrated that Heated radish extract (HRE) have potently suppressed the tyrosinase activity and melanin production in B16/F10 cells. It had also reduced the expression of components involved in melanin production pathway both transcriptionally and transitionally. In in vivo studies, HRE had potently suppressed the expression of MMP's and reduced the wrinkle formation and inhibited collagen degradation. Moreover, on human skin, ginseng cream increased the resilience, skin moisture and enhanced the skin tone. Therefore in light of these findings, we conclude that HRE is an excellent skin whitening and antiaging product.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.10-15
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• 2012

사람 특히 얼굴 및 피부색은 칼라 영상의 화질 평가에 있어서 중요한 요소이다. 그러므로 칼라를 적용하는 장치에는 효과적으로 피부색을 보정하는 방법이 필요하다. 이전의 방법은 선호 피부색 영역의 중심 값을 기준으로 피부색을 보정하였다. 하지만 피부색에 대한 관찰자의 주관적인 평가를 통하여 선호 피부색을 조사한 결과 가장 선호하는 피부색이 선호 피부색 영역의 중심과 일치하지 않으며 또한 하나의 우세한 값을 가지지 않는다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 각 인종에 대한 다중의 선호색을 이용하여 선호 피부색으로 보정하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저, 각 인종에 대하여 밝기에 따른 다중의 선호 피부색을 결정한다. 그 후 피부색 영역을 검출하고 각 인종의 평균 피부색과 검출된 각 피부색 영역의 평균 값의 차이를 이용하여 검출된 피부색 영역에 대한 인종을 선택한다. 다음으로 각 선택된 영역에 대하여 다중의 선호피부색 중 하나의 대응되는 선호 피부색을 결정한다. 마지막으로 입력 피부색은 부드러운 피부색 재현을 위해 선택된 선호 피부색과의 차이에 비율적으로 보정된다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법과 이전 방법을 비교하였고, 주관적 평가에서 제안한 방법이 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.421-424
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• 1999

Automatic human face detection in a complex background is one of the difficult problems In this paper. we propose an effective automatic face detection system that can locate the face region in natural scene images when the system is used as a pre-processor of a face recog- nition system. We use two natural and powerful visual cues, the color and the human head shape. The outline of the human head can be generally described as being roughly elliptic in nature. In the first step of the proposed system, we have tried the approach of fitting the best Possible ellipse to the outline of the head In the next step, the method based on the human skin color space by selecting flesh tone regions in color images and histogramming their r(＝R/(R＋G＋B)) and g(＝G/R＋G＋B)) values. According to our experiment. the proposed system shows robust location results

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권11C호
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• pp.1040-1048
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 인물 영상에 대한 새로운 자동 톤 균형 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 일반적인 백색 균형 (White balance) 알고리즘은 무채색 영역 또는 물리적 반사율을 알고 있는 피사체에 대해 RGB 출력 신호의 비율이 동일하도록 보정하는 방법을 사용한다. 본 논문에서는 사진 속 얼굴색을 기준 조명하에서의 피부색 좌표와 일치 되도록 RGB의 채널 이득을 조절한다. 실험을 위해 카메라 이미지 센서의 전달 특성을 분석하고 기준 조명하에서의 평균 얼굴 색도를 측정하여 카메라 출력 RGB을 계산한다. 마지막으로 임의의 조명하에서 촬영된 인물 영상에 대해 얼굴 부분의 RGB 출력 비율이 기준 얼굴색에 대한 비율이 되도록 R 채널과 B 채널의 이득을 조정하여 색도 보정을 했다. 입력 삼자극치 XYZ는 카메라 전달 행렬에 의해 카레라 출력 RGB로부터 계산된다. 그리고 입력 삼자극치 XYZ는 sRGB 전달 행렬을 이용하여 기준 컬러 공간(sRGB)으로 변환된다. RGB 데이터는 감마 보정 후 디스플레이를 위해 8 bit 데이터로 인코딩되어진다. 알고리즘은 맥베스 컬러 차트 (Macbeth color chart)의 light skin color인 평균 얼굴색과 실제로 측정된 다양한 얼굴색의 평균색에 적용되어졌다.

• 대한두개안면성형외과학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.255-260
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• 2017

Background: Surgery for reconstruction of defects after surgery should be performed selectively and the many points must be considered. The authors conducted this study to compare the local flap and skin graft by facial location in the reconstruction after resection of facial skin cancer. Methods: The authors performed the study in patients that had received treatment in Department of Plastic Surgery, Gyeongsang National University. The cases were analyzed according to the reconstruction methods for the defects after surgery, sex, age, tumor site, and tumor size. Additionally, the authors compared differences of aesthetic satisfaction (out of 5 points) of patients in the local flap and skin graft by facial location after resection of facial skin cancer by dividing the face into eight areas. Results: A total of 153 cases were confirmed. The most common facial skin cancer was basal cell carcinoma (56.8%, 87 cases), followed by squamous cell carcinoma (37.2%, 57 cases) and bowen's disease (5.8%, 9 cases). The most common reconstruction method was local flap 119 cases (77.7%), followed by skin graft 34 cases (22.3%). 86 patients answered the questionnaire and mean satisfaction of the local flap and skin graft were 4.3 and 3.5 (p=0.04), respectively, indicating that satisfaction of local flap was significantly high. Conclusion: When comparing satisfaction of patients according to results, local flap shows excellent effects in functional and cosmetic aspects would be able to provide excellent results rather than using a skin graft with poor touch and tone compared to the surrounding normal skin.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.1456-1464
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• 2007

정보의 보안 및 감시, 관리에 대한 중요성의 증대와 공항, 항만 및 일반 기업에서의 얼굴 및 피부 인식을 이용한 패스워드 제어 시스템이 활용됨으로써 피부색 검출에 관한 연구가 지속적으로 이루어져 왔다. 뿐만 아니라 광범위 통신망을 이용한 화상 통신 및 전자 결재 등 그 적용 범위가 급속하게 확산됨에 따라 정확한 피부색 검출의 중요성이 그 무엇보다 커지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 인종별로 수집된 수백 개의 인물 이미지로부터 얻어진 정보를 사용해 피부색의 YCbCr을 파악하고 이 중 Cb와 Cr 정보만을 이용하여 피부 영역을 설정하였으며, 적응적인 피부 범위 설정을 통하여 그 피부 영역의 포함 여부에 따라 피부색을 검출하는 효율적이고 간단한 구조를 제안한다. 이것은 메모리를 사용하지 않는 ID 처리를 가능하게 함으로써 모바일 장비와 같은 상대적으로 작은 크기의 하드웨어나 시스템으로의 적용을 가능하게 하였다. 그리고 선택적 모드를 추가함으로써 더욱 향상된 피부 검출을 할 수 있을 뿐 만 아니라 복잡한 알고리즘을 사용하는 기존의 얼굴 인식 기술에 상응하는 결과를 보여준다.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.63-77
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• 2012

This study action drama TV drama 'Ya-ha'(夜叉) the actual work practices of the pre-consultation stage through the Writers, Producer, Art directors and in consultation with the opinion of the character set the record of the contents and character changes over time in accordance with characters makeup the design elements were analyzed. The methods of study was used local and abroad related books, studies, publications and cases and the subjects were limited to be four male make up characters in drama 'Ya-cha'. As a result, TV action drama 'Ya-cha' make up design elements and representation techniques were classified as description of skin tone, wound, the shape of eyebrows, hair type, shape of beard and materials and carried out an important role in the character representation. First, presentation techniques changed skin tones depending on character and position and described wound shape as expression technique and materials were analyzed. Second, the shape of eyebrows was based on the physiognomy of the form. And hair type changed volume, thickness, length and texture depending on character. Third, shape of beard is expressed different kinds of volume, thickness, length and texture depending on character. There fore, that systematization of the make-up design elements is useful to express stable characters and make drama for make up in various image genres.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권3C
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• pp.264-270
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose the modified display color control system using white point line, boundary lines and S-shaped curves to emphasize blue and red tone colors on CIE1931 diagram. The proposed system divides RGB gamut into movable area and non-movable area by using boundary lines. The colors in movable area are moved into right side or left side along quadratic curve to change the bluish (or reddish) color to more bluish (or more reddish), while those in non-movable area are excepted from color control to prevent skin color from changing. The loci of the quadratic curves are very similar to the arc of the white-point line which connects all points that represent the chromaticities of a black body radiator at different temperatures and is also called the black body locus. The RGB gamut extension by movement of chromaticity coordinate can improve color reproducibility. Therefore in the case of application to LCD, the display shows excellent performance because the LCD's color reproducibility is comparatively lower than that of other display systems. The proposed system is also experimentally demonstrated with Xilinx Virtex FPGA XCV2000E- 6BG560 and the TV set.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.603-609
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• 2013

Background Although the conventional direct brow lift operation provides a simple means of managing lateral brow ptosis, the scars produced have been unacceptable. However, using the modifications proposed here, scarring showed remarkable improvement. This article reviews our experiences with the presented technique, mainly with respect to postoperative scarring. Methods Measured amounts of supra-eyebrow skin and subcutaneous fat were excised en bloc in the conventional manner under 'hyper-hydrated' local infiltration anesthesia. The lower flap and the edge of the upper flap were undermined above the muscular plane, and the orbicularis oculi muscle was directly suture-plicated and suspended upward to the distal frontalis muscle. Skin closure was performed in a basic plastic surgical manner. Results From April 2007 to April 2012, a consecutive series of 60 patients underwent surgery using the above method. The average width of the excised skin was 8 mm (range, 5-15 mm) at the apex of the eyebrow. Preoperative complaints were resolved without occurrence of significant complications. The surgical scars showed remarkable improvement and were negligible in the majority of the cases. Conclusions The direct brow lift operation combined with plication/suspension of the superior and lateral portion of the orbicularis oculi muscle provides a simple, safe, and predictable means of correcting lateral brow ptosis. The scars were acceptable to all of the patients. For proper management of the frontalis tone, upper blepharoplasty and/or repair of eyelid levator function must be considered in addition to brow lift procedures.