• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.57-66
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• 2011

In this paper, it is proposed for algorithm to detect human efficiently using a edge symmetry and gradient directional characteristics in realtime by the feature extraction in a single input image. Proposed algorithm is composed of three stages, preprocessing, region partition of human candidates, verification of candidate regions. Here, preprocessing stage is strong the image regardless of the intensity and brightness of surrounding environment, also detects a contour with characteristics of human as considering the shape features size and the condition of human for characteristic of human. And stage for region partition of human candidates has separated the region with edge symmetry for human and size in the detected contour, also divided 1st candidates region with applying the adaboost algorithm. Finally, the candidate region verification stage makes excellent the performance for the false detection by verifying the candidate region using feature vector of a gradient for divided local area and classifier. The results of the simulations, which is applying the proposed algorithm, the processing speed of the proposed algorithms is improved approximately 1.7 times, also, the FNR(False Negative Rate) is confirmed to be better 3% than the conventional algorithm which is a single structure algorithm.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.87-92
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• 2016

In this paper, we improved classification performance of benign and malignant lung nodules by including the parenchyma features. For small pulmonary nodules (4-10mm) nodules, there are a limited number of CT data voxels within the solid tumor, making them difficult to process through traditional CAD(computer aided diagnosis) tools. Increasing feature extraction to include the surrounding parenchyma will increase the CT voxel set for analysis in these very small pulmonary nodule cases and likely improve diagnostic performance while keeping the CAD tool flexible to scanner model and parameters. In AdaBoost learning using naive Bayes and SVM weak classifier, a number of significant features were selected from 304 features. The results from the COPDGene test yielded an accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 100%. Therefore proposed method can be used for the computer aided diagnosis effectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.1334-1339
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• 2018

Viola & Jones's face detection algorithm is a typical face detection algorithm and shows excellent face detection performance. However, the Viola & Jones's algorithm in images including many faces generates undetected faces and wrong detected faces, such as false faces and duplicate detected faces, due to face diversity. This paper proposes an improved face detection algorithm using a face verification algorithm that eliminates the false detected faces generated from the Viola & Jones's algorithm. The proposed face verification algorithm verifies whether the detected face is valid by evaluating its size, its skin color in the designated area, its edges generated from eyes and mouth, and its duplicate detection. In the face verification experiment of 658 face images detected by the Viola & Jones's algorithm, the proposed face verification algorithm shows that all the face images created in the real person are verified.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.84-90
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a quadratic discriminant analysis based approach for improving the discriminating strength of weak classifiers based on simple Haar-like features that were used in the Viola-Jones object detection framework. Viola and Jones built a strong classifier using a boosted ensemble of weak classifiers. However, their single threshold (or decision boundary) based weak classifier is sub-optimal and too weak for efficient discrimination between object class and background. A quadratic discriminant analysis based approach is presented which leads to hyper-quadric boundary between the object class and background class, thus realizing multiple thresholds based weak classifiers. Experiments carried out for car detection using 1000 positive and 3000 negative images for training, and 500 positive and 500 negative images for testing show that our method yields higher classification performance with fewer classifiers than single threshold based weak classifiers.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.10
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• pp.713-722
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• 2013

This paper proposes a method of using depth information to detect the hand region in real-time based on the cascade method. In order to ensure stable and speedy detection of the hand region even under conditions of lighting changes in the test environment, this study uses only features based on depth information, and proposes a method of detecting the hand region by means of a classifier that uses boosting and cascading methods. First, in order to extract features using only depth information, we calculate the difference between the depth value at the center of the input image and the average of depth value within the segmented block, and to ensure that hand regions of all sizes will be detected, we use the central depth value and the second order linear model to predict the size of the hand region. The cascade method is applied to implement training and recognition by extracting features from the hand region. The classifier proposed in this paper maintains accuracy and enhances speed by composing each stage into a single weak classifier and obtaining the threshold value that satisfies the detection rate while exhibiting the lowest error rate to perform over-fitting training. The trained classifier is used to classify the hand region, and detects the final hand region in the final merger stage. Lastly, to verify performance, we perform quantitative and qualitative comparative analyses with various conventional AdaBoost algorithms to confirm the efficiency of the hand region detection algorithm proposed in this paper.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.93-103
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• 2018

This paper presents a method for speed limit sign recognition in images. Conventional sign recognition methods decreases recognition accuracy because they are very sensitive and include repeated features. The proposed method emphasizes color attributes based on the weighted YUV color space. Moreover, the recognition accuracy can be improved by extracting the local region of interest (ROI) in the candidates. The proposed method uses the Haar features and the Adaboost classifier for recognition. Experimental results confirm that the proposed algorithm is superior to conventional algorithms under various speed signs and conditions.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.1943-1950
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• 2016

Recently, gender classification has attracted a great deal of attention in the field of video surveillance system. It can be useful in many applications such as detecting crimes for women and business intelligence. In this paper, we proposed a method which can detect pedestrians from CCTV video and classify the gender of the detected objects. So far, many algorithms have been proposed to classify people according the their gender. This paper presents a gender classification using convolutional neural network. The detection phase is performed by AdaBoost algorithm based on Haar-like features and LBP features. Classifier and detector is trained with data-sets generated form CCTV images. The experimental results of the proposed method is male matching rate of 89.9% and the results shows 90.7% of female videos. As results of simulations, it is shown that the proposed gender classification is better than conventional classification algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.199-202
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• 2005

TV OSD(On Screen Display) 메뉴 자동검증 시스템에서 다국적 언어의 문자 인식은 표준패턴의 구조적 분석이 쉽지 않을 뿐만 아니라 학습패턴 집합의 규모와 특징의 수가 증가함으로 인하여 특징추출 및 인식 과정에서 방대한 계산량이 요구된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 학습 데이터에 포함되는 다량의 특징 집합으로부터 인식에 필요한 효과적인 특징을 선별함으로써 패턴 분류기의 효율성을 개선하기 위한 방법론을 고찰한다. 이를 위하여 수정된 형태의 Adaboost 기법을 제안하고 이를 적용한 실험 결과로부터 그 유용성을 고찰한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 초기의 특징 집합을 취약한 성능을 갖는 다수의 분류기(classifier)로서 고려하며, 이로부터 반복학습을 통하여 개선된 분류기를 점진적으로 선별해 나가게 된다. 학습의 원리는 주어진 학습패턴 집합에 기초하여 일종의 교사학습(supervised learning) 방식으로 이루어진다. 각 패턴에 할당된 가중치 값은 각 단계에서 산출되는 분류결과에 따라 적응적으로 수정되어 반복학습이 진행됨에 따라 점차 보완적 성능을 갖는 분류기를 선택할 수 있게 한다. 즉, 주어진 각 학습패턴에 대하여 초기에 균등한 가중치가 부여되며, 반복학습의 각 단계에서 적용되는 분류기의 출력을 분석하여 오분류된 패턴의 가중치 분포를 증가시켜 나간다. 본 연구에서는 실제 응용으로서 OSD 메뉴검증 시스템을 대상으로 제안된 이론을 적용하고 그 타당성을 평가한다.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.35-41
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• 2017

We propose a face recognition and notification system that can transform visual face information into tactile signals in order to help visually impaired people. The proposed system consists of a glasses type camera, a mobile computer and an electronic cane. The glasses type camera captures the frontal view of the user, and sends this image to mobile computer. The mobile computer starts to search for human's face in the image when obstacles are detected by ultrasonic sensors. In a case that human's face is detected, the mobile computer identifies detected face. At this time, Adaboost and compressive sensing are used as a detector and a classifier, respectively. After the identification procedures of the detected face, the identified face information is sent to controller attached to a cane using a Bluetooth communication. The controller generates motor control signals using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) according to the recognized face labels. The vibration motor generates vibration patterns to inform the visually impaired person of the face recognition result. The experimental results of face recognition and notification system show that proposed system is helpful for visually impaired people by providing person identification results in front of him/her.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.77-82
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• 2012

This paper presents a hardware-implemented face regions stabilization algorithm that stabilizes facial regions using the locations and sizes of human faces found by a face detection system. Face detection algorithms extract facial features or patterns determining the presence of a face from a video source and detect faces via a classifier trained on example faces. But face detection results has big variations in the detected locations and sizes of faces by slight shaking. To address this problem, the high frequency reduce filter that reduces variations in the detected face regions by taking into account the face range information between the current and previous video frames are implemented in addition to center distance comparison and zooming operations.