• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.179-186
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• 2007

This paper proposes a novel method for face detection method using Zernike moments. To detect the faces in an image, local regions in multiscale sliding windows are classified into face and non-face by a neural network, and input features of the neural network consist of Zernike moments. Feature dimension is reduced as the reconstruction capability of orthogonal moment. In addition, because the magnitude of Zernike moment is invariant to rotation, a tilted human face can be detected. Even so the detection rate of the proposed method about head on face is less than experiments using intensity features, the result of our method about rotated faces is more robust. If the additional compensation and features are utilized, the proposed scheme may be best suited for the later stage of classification.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.85-91
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• 2011

The technique, which is able to detect and recognize characters in videos such as a movie or TV drama, can be used for applications which are database management of a general user's facial images for the suppliers of PVR(personal video recorder), mobile phones, and multimedia, etc. In this paper, we propose a face detection algorithm. It searches the character through cast indexing when the scene is changed in video. It is consisted of three stages. The first step is the detection-step of the scene change after producing a paused image. The second step is the face detection-step using color information. The final step is the detection-step which detects its features by the facial boundary. According to the experimental result, it has detected faces in different conditions successfully and more advanced than the existing other one that are using only color information.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.441-445
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• 2005

얼굴인식기술이 인증 및 보안을 위한 도구로 활용되고 있지만 입력영상의 상태 즉, 복잡한 배경과 조명환경에 따라 적용할 수 있는 범위가 제약적일 수밖에 없다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 제약을 최소화하기 위한 방법과 좀 더 정확한 얼굴 영역 검출을 위한 기법을 제시한다. 제안된 방법은 움직임에 기반 한 에지 차영상을 이용하여 얼굴 윤곽을 검출한 후 이를 X와 Y축의 프로파일을 이용하여 얼굴영역을 예측한다. 그리고 얼굴의 피부 색상 정보와 특징 구성요소인 눈, 코, 입 등의 특징적인 요소의 에지정보를 이용하여 수직적으로 이를 구분한 후 얼굴인지 아닌지를 판별한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 다양한 배경 및 조명등의 많은 환경적 요인에 따른 입력영상에서도 매우 안정적으로 적용됨을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.109-110
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• 2002

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.1823-1830
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• 2003

This paper presents a multiple face detector based on a robust pupil detection technique. The pupil detector uses active illumination that exploits the retro­reflectivity property of eyes to facilitate detection. The detection range of this method is appropriate for interactive desktop and kiosk applications. Once the location of the pupil candidates are computed, the candidates are filtered and grouped into pairs that correspond to faces using heuristic rules. To demonstrate the robustness of the face detection technique, a dual mode face tracker was developed, which is initialized with the most salient detected face. Recursive estimators are used to guarantee the stability of the process and combine the measurements from the multi­face detector and a feature correlation tracker. The estimated position of the face is used to control a pan­tilt servo mechanism in real­time, that moves the camera to keep the tracked face always centered in the image.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.251-256
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• 2021

Unlike general cameras, a high-speed camera capable of capturing a large number of frames per second can enable the advancement of some image processing technologies that have been limited so far. This paper proposes a method of removing undesirable noise from an high-speed input color image, and then detecting a human face from the noise-free image. In this paper, noise pixels included in the ultrafast input image are first removed by applying a bidirectional filter. Then, using RetinaFace, a region representing the person's personal information is robustly detected from the image where noise was removed. The experimental results show that the described algorithm removes noise from the input image and then robustly detects a human face using the generated model. The model-based face-detection method presented in this paper is expected to be used as basic technology for many practical application fields related to image processing and pattern recognition, such as indoor and outdoor building monitoring, door opening and closing management, and mobile biometric authentication.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 이동형 패럴랙스 배리어 방식의 모바일 3D 디스플레이에 응용하기 위해 개발된 시역계측알고리즘[1]을 실제시스템에 구현한 후 문제점을 분석하고, 그 문제점을 해결할 수 있는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 본 연구팀에서 이동형 패럴랙스 배리어 방식의 모바일 3D 디스플레이에 응용하기 위해 개발한 이전의 시역계측기술[1]은 기존의 비올라-존스 얼굴 검출기[2]에 의한 얼굴검출 결과와 비올라-존스 얼굴 검출기의 단점을 보완하기 위해 새롭게 추가된 옵티컬-플로우 특징점 추적 알고리즘[3]에 의한 얼굴검출의 두 결과를 선형적으로 결합하여 시청자의 시역위치를 예측하였다. 하지만, 모바일 3D 디스플레이의 특성한 급격한 조명의 변화에서 옵티컬-플로우에 의한 특징점 추적알고리즘에 심각한 오류가 발생하는 문제점이 있다. 이러한 급격한 조명의 변화에 대한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 매 프레임마다 정확하게 옵티컬-플로우 얼굴 검출기의 정확도를 판단할 수 있는 방법을 제안하고, 다양한 실험을 통해 그 효과를 검증한다.

• 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 Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.236-238
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• 2003

Human face detection is often the first step in applications such as video surveillance, human computer interface, fare recognition, and image database management. We have constructed a simple and fast system to detect frontal human faces in complex environment and different illumination. This paper presents a fast segmentation method to combine neighboring pixels with similar hue. The algorithm constructs eye, mouth, and boundary maps for verifying each fare candidate. We test the system on images in complex environment and with confusing objects. The experiment shows a robust detection result with few false detected fates.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.7
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• pp.692-702
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• 2017

Face detection using the LBP based feature descriptor has issues in that it can not represent spatial information between facial shape and facial components such as eyes, nose and mouth. To address these issues, in previous research, a facial image was divided into a number of square sub-regions. However, since the sub-regions are divided into different numbers and sizes, the division criteria of the sub-region suitable for the database used in the experiment is ambiguous, the dimension of the LBP histogram increases in proportion to the number of sub-regions and as the number of sub-regions increases, the sensitivity to facial orientation rotation increases significantly. In this paper, we present a novel facial region segmentation method that can solve in-plane rotation issues associated with LBP based feature descriptors and the number of dimensions of feature descriptors. As a result, the proposed method showed detection accuracy of 99.0278% from a single facial image rotated in orientation.