• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.533-540
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• 2010

This study was designed to examine the difference in visual attention between the evaluations of facial attractiveness and facial trustworthiness, both of which may be the two most fundamental social evaluation for forming first impressions under various types of social interactions. In study 1, participants were asked to evaluate the attractiveness and trustworthiness of 40 new faces while their gaze directions being recorded using an eye-tracker. The analysis revealed that participants spent significantly longer gaze fixation time while examining certain facial features such as eyes and nose during the evaluation of facial trustworthiness, as compared to facial attractiveness. In study 2, participants performed the same face evaluation tasks, except that a word was briefly displayed on a certain facial feature in each face trial, which were then followed by unexpected recall tests of the previously viewed words. The analysis demonstrated that the recognition rate of the words that had been presented on the nose was significantly higher for the task of facial trustworthiness vs. facial attractiveness evaluation. These findings suggest that the evaluation of facial trustworthiness may be distinguished by that of facial attractiveness in terms of the allocation of attentional resources.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.415-418
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• 2007

본 논문은 머리카락을 포함한 얼굴 영역 추출에 관한 것으로서, 보다 구체적으로는 조명변화에도 강인 한 얼굴영역 추출방법과 다양한 머리카락의 모양과 색의 변화에도 신뢰성 있는 머리카락 추출 방법에 관한 것이다. 일반적으로 얼굴영상은 개인의 특징을 잘 표현할 수 있는 정보로써, 영상에서 얼굴 영역을 추출하여 이를 실제 얼굴영상정보를 이용한 얼굴인식, 관상정보 서비스를 위한 전처리, 기반기술을 제공하고, 실사 캐릭터 제작에도 바로 적용될 수 있다. 기존의 템플리트 매칭, 곡선추적 알고리즘 등과의 같은 추출방법에서는 얼굴크기 변화, 안경 및 장신구의 착용 여부 그리고 조명의 변화에 따라 얼굴영역 추출하는 처리속도가 많이 걸리고, 성능이 크게 저하되는 문제점이 있다. 상기한 바와 같이 종래의 문제점을 개선하기 위하여, 본 논문에서는 얼굴의 크기변화, 안경 및 장신구의 착용 여부 그리고 조명의 변화에서도 얼굴 영역을 잘 추출 할 있는 방법과 다양한 머리카락의 색, 형태 변화에도 신뢰성 있는 머리카락 추출방법을 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.223-225
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• 2004

얼굴 인식 및 검출에 있어서 어려운 문제가 조명의 변화와 포즈의 변화에 따른 성능 면에서의 신뢰성이다. 이러한 상황(Context)의 변화를 고려하여 영상을 처리하기 위하여 얼굴 영상에 주어진 조명의 상황을 SOM으로 분석하며, 영상에 따라 다른 전처리 기법의 필요성에 대해 제안한다. SOM은 비 지도학습으로써 얼굴 이미지들을 수집하여 그룹화 함으로써 상황분석을 위한 알고리즘으로 활용한다 이는 상황분석 기법을 적용하기 위한 응용에 활용할 수 있으며, 적절한 전처리 기법은 얼굴 인식의 성능을 향상시킴을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.67-76
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• 2008

Reliable face recognition under various illumination environments is essential for successful commercialization. Feature-based face recognition relies on a good choice of feature vectors. Gabor feature vectors are known to be more robust to variations of pose and illumination than any other feature vectors so that they are popularly adopted for face recognition. However, they are not completely independent of illuminations. In this paper, we propose an illumination-robust face recognition method based on the Gabor feature vector illumination PCA model. We first construct the Gabor feature vector illumination PCA model where Gator feature vector space is rendered to be decomposed into two orthogonal illumination subspace and face identity subspace. Since the Gabor feature vectors obtained by projection into the face identity subspace are separated from illumination, the face recognition utilizing them becomes more robust to illumination. Through experiments, it is shown that the proposed face recognition based on Gabor feature vector illumination PCA model performs more reliably under various illumination and Pose environments.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.115-124
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• 2009

The popular eigenfaces-based face recognition among proposed face recognition methods utilizes the eigenfaces obtained from applying PCA to a training face image set. Thus, it may not achieve a reliable performance under illumination environments different from that of training face images. In this paper, we propose an illumination-separate eigenfaces-based face recognition method, which excludes the effects of illumination as much as possible. The proposed method utilizes the illumination-separate eigenfaces which is obtained by orthogonal decomposition of the eigenface space of face model image set with respect to the constructed face illumination subspace. Through experiments, it is shown that the proposed face recognition method based on the illumination-separate eigenfaces performs more robustly under various illumination environments than the conventional eigenfaces-based face recognition method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.101-102
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• 2008

얼굴인식 분야에서 PCA(Principal Component Analysis) 기반 알고리즘은 비교적 간단한 구조와 높은 인식률로 인해 많이 사용되고 있지만 조명이나 얼굴 포즈 변화에 민감하다는 단점이 있다[1]. 이런 단점을 해결하기 위한 노력으로 PCA를 다른 얼굴인식 알고리즘과 결합함으로서 조명과 포즈 변화에 강인한 얼굴인식을 위만 연구가 현재 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문은 PCA기반 얼굴인식에서 조명이 다양하게 변할 때 이에 따른 인식률의 변화와, 인식이 실패했을 경우에 인식 대상이 유사도 상위후보군에 들어가는지를 조사함으로서 PCA기반 알고리즘의 신뢰도를 확인하고자 한다. 이를 위해 Yale Face Database H와 Extended Yale Face Database B를 이용하여 실험한 결과 약 93%의 인식 성공률을 확인했으며, 7%의 인식 실패한 영상의 경우 그 인식하고자 했던 얼굴이 유사도를 기준으로 정렬된 학습 영상에서 상위 후보군에 속한다는 실험 결과를 얻음으로서 PCA기반 얼굴 인식 알고리즘의 신뢰성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.333-338
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• 2008

The evaluation for the visage volume was performed with human and dummy face using PRIMOS $body^{(R)}$. Three researchers measured the dummy face attached different volume of clay (6.6 mL, 13.2 mL, and 19.8 mL). It is identified that the high correlation between measured values and real volume ($R^2=0.99$). The percent (%) of relative standard deviation (RSD) of the data was shown below 10%. In Gage R&R analysis, the percent of contribution, the percent of study variation and distinct categories values were 0.78%, 8.85%, and 15% respectively. Therefore this method was regarded as the good standard condition in aspect of reproducibility and repetitiveness of data. The face volume variation was measured by PRIMOS $body^{(R)}$ on the face in participated 10 healthy Korean women volunteers. Subjects used the product once a day for two weeks as night sleeping pack. After application of the test products, the 3D image data of face were taken 1 and 2 weeks later. We found the face volume was significantly decreased after using products. In conclusion, this novel non-invasive technique was useful in measuring and visualizing alterations in face volume as a consequence of certain treatments. This system will provide a rapid and precise analysis of 3D topographical information for face.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 2004

In the real-time automatic face recognition technique, accurate face detection is essential and very important part because it has the effect to face recognition performance. In this paper, we use color information, edge information, and binary information to detect candidate regions of eyes from Input image, and then detect face candidate region using the center point of the detected eyes. We verify both eye candidate region and face candidate region using Support Vector Machines(SVM). It is possible to perform fast and reliable face detection because we can protect false detection through these verification process. From the experimental results, we confirmed the Proposed algorithm in this paper shows excellent face detection rate over 99%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.381-384
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 실험 영상으로부터 학습된 피부색상 정보를 이용하여 컬러 공간테이블을 생성한 후. 입력된 영상의 컬러와 공간정보를 학습된 피부색상 공간테이블로부터 비교, 분석하여 얼굴후보영역을 찾고자 하였다. 또한 추출된 후보영역의 레이블된 특징정보를 이용하여 지역적 특징을 찾아낸 후 얼굴 특징점의 위치에 따른 형태정보를 이용하여 신뢰할 수 있는 얼굴 영역을 검출하고자 하였다. 제안된 피부색상(Skin-tone)공간테이블은 변환하기 쉽고 계산이 빠른 RGB컬러 공간에서 실험, 평가되었으며, 실시간으로 입력된 영상의 정규화된 책상 값을 유사성 정도에 따라 레이블링하여 보다 빠른 얼굴 후보 영역의 검출과 검증을 할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.617-624
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• 2004

This paper describes a new facial feature localization method that uses Adjacent Depth Differences(ADD) in 3D facial surface. In general, human recognize the extent of deepness or shallowness of region relatively, in depth, by comparing the neighboring depth information among regions of an object. The larger the depth difference between regions shows, the easier one can recognize each region. Using this principal, facial feature extraction will be easier, more reliable and speedy. 3D range images are used as input images. And ADD are obtained by differencing two range values, which are separated at a distance coordinate, both in horizontal and vertical directions. ADD and input image are analyzed to extract facial features, then localized a nose region, which is the most prominent feature in 3D facial surface, effectively and accurately.