• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.28 no.B
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• pp.143-148
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• 2008

A real-time face detection is to find human faces robustly under the cluttered background free from the effect of occlusion by other objects or various lightening conditions. We propose a face detection system for real-time applications using wavelet decomposition method based on Gabor features. Firstly, skin candidate regions are extracted from the given image by skin color filtering and projection method. Then Gabor-feature based template matching is performed to choose face cadidate from the skin candidate regions. The chosen face candidate region is transformed into 2-level wavelet decomposition images, from which feature vectors are extracted for classification. Based on the extracted feature vectors, the face candidate region is finally classified into either face or nonface class by the Levenberg-Marguardt back-propagation neural network.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.9
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• pp.829-842
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• 2003

In this Paper, we propose the new face detection and tracking method based on template matching for real-time applications such as, teleconference, telecommunication, front stage of surveillance system using face recognition, and video-phone applications. Since the main purpose of paper is to track a face regardless of various environments, we use template-based face tracking method. To generate robust face templates, we apply wavelet transform to the average face image and extract three types of wavelet template from transformed low-resolution average face. However template matching is generally sensitive to the change of illumination conditions, we apply Min-max normalization with histogram equalization according to the variation of intensity. Tracking method is also applied to reduce the computation time and predict precise face candidate region. Finally, facial components are also detected and from the relative distance of two eyes, we estimate the size of facial ellipse.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.114-116
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• 2006

This paper is to propose the palm print recognition system using wavelet transform. The palm print is frequently used as the material for the biometric recognition system such as the finger print, iris, face, etc. Since the palm print has lots of properties which include principle line, wrinkles, ridge and so forth, the ways of the implementation of the system are various. In this paper, at first, the palm print image is acquired and then some level of wavelet transform is performed. The coefficients become to be some blocks size of M by N after divided into the horizontal, vertical, diagonal components each level. The mean values, which are calculated with values of each block, are used as the feature vector. To compare between the stored template and the acquired vectors, we adopt the PNN (Probability Neural Network) method.