• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.5
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• pp.347-358
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• 2009

In this thesis, we develop a vision based hand motion recognition system using a camera with two rotational motors. Existing systems were implemented using a range camera or multiple cameras and have a limited working area. In contrast, we use an uncalibrated camera and get more wide working area by pan-tilt motion. Given an image sequence provided by the pan-tilt camera, color and pattern information are integrated into a tracking system in order to find the 2D position and direction of the hand. With these pose information, we estimate 3D motion plane on which the gesture motion trajectory from approximately forms. The 3D trajectory of the moving finger tip is projected into the motion plane, so that the resolving power of the linear gesture patterns is enhanced. We have tested the proposed approach in terms of the accuracy of trace angle and the dimension of the working volume.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.91-97
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• 2013

A finger-gesture remote controller using the single camera is implemented in this paper, which is base on the recognition of finger number and finger moving direction. Proposed method uses the transformed YCbCr color-difference information to extract the hand region effectively. The number and position of finger are computer by using a double circle tracing method. Specially, a user continuous-command can be performed repeatedly by recognizing the finger-gesture direction of single shape. The position information of finger enables a user command to amplify a same command in the User eXperience. Also, all processing tasks are implemented by using the Intel OpenCV library and C++ language. In order to evaluate the performance of the our proposed method, after applying to the commercial video player software as a remote controller. As a result, the proposed method showed the average 89% recognition ratio by the user command-mode.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.199-204
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• 2013

An implementation method of real-time numeral recognizer based on gesture is presented in this paper for various information devices. The proposed algorithm steadily captures the motion of a hand on 3D open space with the Kinect sensor. The captured hand motion is simplified with PCA, in order to preserve the trace consistency and to minimize the trace variations due to noises and size changes. In addition, we also propose a new HMM using both the gradient and the positional features of the simplified hand stroke. As the result, the proposed algorithm has robust characteristics to the variations of the size and speed of hand motion. The recognition rate is increased up to 30%, because of this combined model. Experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm gives a high recognition rate about 98%.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.506-515
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a Real-time Interactive Shadow Avatar(RISA) which can express facial emotions changing as response of user's gestures. The avatar's shape is a virtual Shadow constructed from the real-time sampled picture of user's shape. Several predefined facial animations overlap on the face area of the virtual Shadow, according to the types of hand gestures. We use the background subtraction method to separate the virtual Shadow, and a simplified region-based tracking method is adopted for tracking hand positions and detecting hand gestures. In order to express smooth change of emotions, we use a refined morphing method which uses many more frames in contrast with traditional dynamic emoticons. RISA can be directly applied to the area of interface media arts and we expect the detecting scheme of RISA would be utilized as an alternative media interface for DMB and camera phones which need simple input devices, in the near future.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.697-700
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 동작에 근거한 새로운 비디오 편집 방법을 제안한다. 강의 비디오에서 전자 슬라이드 내용을 자동으로 검출하고 비디오와 동기화한다. 각 동기화된 표제의 동작을 연속적으로 추적 및 인식한 후, 등록된 화면과 슬라이드에서 변환 내용을 찾아 동작이 일어 나는 영역을 확인한다. 인식된 동작과 등록된 지점에서 슬라이드의 정보를 추출하여 슬라이드 영역을 부분적으로 확대한다거나 원본 비디오를 자동으로 편집함으로써 비디오의 질을 향상 시킬 수가 있다. 2 개의 비디오 가지고 실험한 결과 각각 95.5, 96.4%의 동작 인식 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.35-53
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• 1997

본 논문은 컴퓨터 시각을 이용하여 제스처를 인식함으로써 사용자에게 보다 편리한 인터페이스를 제공하는 것을 목표로 한다. 제안하는 제스처 인식 방법은 손영역을 획득하는 손영역 획득 모듈？손영역을 인식하는 인식 모듈로 나누어 수행한다. 손영역 획득 모듈에서는 손색상 모델？손색상 결정함수를 정의하여 칼라영상의 영역 분리를 수행하였고, 칼만필터를 이용하여 손색상 모델을 갱신하고 탐색영역을 제한하여 영역 추적을 용이하게 하였다. 영역 추적은 전 시점의 손영역 정보를 이용하여 현 시점의 손영역을 획득한다. 인식 모듈에서는 정적인 제스처를 표현하는 객체 프레임？행동 프레임, 그리고 동적인 제스처를 표현하는 스키마를 정의한다. 그리고 획득된 손영역？정합을 수행함으로써 제스처를 인식한다. 실험 결갬灌？제안하는 제스처 기반 인터페이스를 적용한 삼목(Tic-Tac-Toe) 게임 프로그램을 구현하였다. 사용자는 제스처를 이용하여 컴퓨터와 게임을 진행한다. 제안하는 시스템은 다른 종류의 게임 프로그램이나 마우스의 역할을 수행하는 윈도우 시스템의 제어, 그리고 가상 현실 시스템에 적용될 수 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.80-84
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• 2010

Tracking hands is an essential technique for hand gesture recognition which is an efficient way in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Recently, many researchers have focused on hands tracking using a 3D hand model and showed robust tracking results compared to using 2D hand models. In this paper, we propose a novel 3D hand tracking method based on a coupled particle filter. This provides robust and fast tracking results by estimating each part of global hand poses and local finger motions separately and then utilizing the estimated results as a prior for each other. Furthermore, in order to improve the robustness, we apply a multi-cue based method by integrating a color-based area matching method and an edge-based distance matching method. In our experiments, the proposed method showed robust tracking results for complex hand motions in a cluttered background.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2009

본 연구는 HMD(Head Mounted Display), 적외선 카메라, 웹 카메라, 데이터 글러브, 그리고 생리신호 측정 센서를 이용한 증강현실 게임 플랫폼 설계를 목적으로 하고 있다. HMD 는 사용자의 머리의 움직임을 파악하고, 사용자에게 가상 물체를 디스플레이화면에 제공한다. 적외선 카메라는 HMD 하단에 부착하여 사용자의 시선을 추적한다. 웹 카메라는 HMD 상단에 부착하여 전방 영상을 취득 후, 현실영상을 HMD 디스플레이를 통하여 사용자에게 제공한다. 데이터 글러브는 사용자의 손동작을 파악한다. 자율신경계반응은 GSR(Galvanic Skin Response), PPG(PhotoPlethysmoGraphy), 그리고 SKT(SKin Temperature) 센서로 측정한다. 측정된 피부전기반응, 맥파, 그리고 피부온도는 실시간 데이터분석을 통하여 집중 정도를 파악하게 된다. 사용자의 머리 움직임, 시선, 그리고 손동작은 직관적 인터랙션에 사용되고, 집중 정도는 직관적 인터랙션과 결합하여 사용자의 의도파악에 사용된다. 따라서, 본 연구는 멀티모달 인터랙션을 이용하여 직관적 인터랙션 구현과 집중력 분석을 통하여 사용자의 의도를 파악할 수 있는 새로운 증강현실 게임 플랫폼을 설계하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.20-28
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a hand gesture interface for the manipulation of augmented objects in 3D space using a camera. Generally a marker is used for the detection of 3D movement in 2D images. However marker based system has obvious defects since markers are always to be included in the image or we need additional equipments for controling objects, which results in reduced immersion. To overcome this problem, we replace marker by planar hand shape by estimating the hand pose. Kalman filter is for robust tracking of the hand shape. The experimental result indicates the feasibility of the proposed algorithm for hand based AR interfaces.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.683-685
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• 2010

Augmented reality is a technology for showing virtual objects overlapped with the real world as seen from the eyes of users. Studies are being conducted on effective communication methods using hand movements in augmented reality. Hand movements are an important means of human communication along with writing and voice. Space arrangement technology and hand tracking technology using markers to acquire virtual information in augmented reality have many limitations. This paper proposes tracking hand area for augmented object. The augmented objects change viewpoints by hand positions which improves the sense of three dimensions and immersion.