• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.4502-4518
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• 2015

Fisher linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is one of the most popular projection techniques for feature extraction and has been widely applied in face recognition. However, it cannot be used when encountering the single sample per person problem (SSPP) because the intra-class variations cannot be evaluated. In this paper, we propose a novel method called local similarity based linear discriminant analysis (LS_LDA) to solve this problem. Motivated by the "divide-conquer" strategy, we first divide the face into local blocks, and classify each local block, and then integrate all the classification results to make final decision. To make LDA feasible for SSPP problem, we further divide each block into overlapped patches and assume that these patches are from the same class. To improve the robustness of LS_LDA to outliers, we further propose local similarity based median discriminant analysis (LS_MDA), which uses class median vector to estimate the class population mean in LDA modeling. Experimental results on three popular databases show that our methods not only generalize well SSPP problem but also have strong robustness to expression, illumination, occlusion and time variation.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 얼굴 표정 인식을 위한 지역미세패턴(local micro pattern)의 하나인 LBP(Local Binary Pattern) 코드의 잡음에 대한 단점을 해결하기위하여 새로운 미세패턴 방법인 LDP(Local Directional Pattern)를 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 LBP의 문제점을 해결하기 위해 $m{\times}m$ 마스크를 이용하여 8개의 방향 성분을 구하고, 이를 크기에 따라서 정렬한 후 상위 k개를 선정하여 해당 방향을 나타내는 비트를 1로 설정한다. 그리고 8개의 방향 비트를 순차적으로 연결하여 최종 패턴 코드를 생성한다. 실험결과, 제안된 방법은 기존 방법에 비해 회전에 대한 영향이 적으며, 잡음에 대한 적응력이 현저히 높았다. 또한, 제안된 방법을 기반으로 얼굴의 영구적인 특징과 일시적인 특징을 함께 표현하는 새로운 지역미세패턴의 개발이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.402-410
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• 2017

For many years, researchers in face description area have been representing and recognizing faces based on different methods that include subspace discriminant analysis, statistical learning and non-statistics based approach etc. But still automatic face recognition remains an interesting but challenging problem. This paper presents a novel and efficient face image representation method based on Optimized Local Ternary Pattern (OLTP) texture features. The face image is divided into several regions from which the OLTP texture feature distributions are extracted and concatenated into a feature vector that can act as face descriptor. The recognition is performed using nearest neighbor classification method with Chi-square distance as a similarity measure. Extensive experimental results on Yale B, ORL and AR face databases show that OLTP consistently performs much better than other well recognized texture models for face recognition.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.1649-1657
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• 2008

In this paper, to overcome the failure of binarization for the characters suffered from low contrast and non-uniform illumination in license plate character recognition system, we improved the binarization method by combining local thresholding with global thresholding and edge detection. Firstly, apply the local thresholding method to locate the characters in the license plate image and then get the threshold value for the character based on edge detector. This method solves the problem of local low contrast and non-uniform illumination. Finally, back-propagation Neural Network is selected as a powerful tool to perform the recognition process. The results of the experiments i1lustrate that the proposed binarization method works well and the selected classifier saves the processing time. Besides, the character recognition system performed better recognition accuracy 95.7%, and the recognition speed is controlled within 0.3 seconds.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.298-305
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an integrated algorithm for scene recognition, which has been a challenging computer vision problem, with application to mobile robot localization. The proposed scene recognition method utilizes SIFT and visual words as local-level features and GIST as a global-level feature. As local-level and global-level features complement each other, it results in improved performance for scene recognition. This improved algorithm is of low computational complexity and robust to image distortions.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.758-768
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• 2017

In this paper, we present a novel method to extract face representation based on multi-resolution spatial pyramid. In our method, a face is subdivided into increasingly finer sub-regions (local regions) and represented at multiple levels of histogram representations. To cope with misaligned problem, patch-based local descriptor extraction has been also developed in a novel way. To preserve multiple levels of detail in local characteristics and also encode holistic spatial configuration, histograms from all levels of spatial pyramid are integrated by using dimensionality reduction and feature combination, leading to our spatial-pyramid face feature representation. We incorporate our proposed face features into general face recognition pipeline and achieve state-of-the-art results on challenging face recognition problems.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.785-799
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• 2011

본 연구는 지역복지를 극대화하는 지방자치시대에 있어 지역주민으로서 갖추어야 할 시민의식 형성에 영향을 미치는 요인들에 대해 파악하였다. 즉, 지역사회 문제인식의 정도, 개인의 가치 및 태도, 그리고 사회활동 참여여부 등이 민주시민의식 형성에 어떠한 영향을 미치고 있는지 살펴봄으로써 지역사회의 상황과 현실에 맞춘 성숙한 시민의식 형성에 기여하고자 하였다. 조사는 용인시에 거주하는 20세 이상의 지역주민 600명을 대상으로 비례확률층화표집 하였다. 연구결과, 경제 환경문제인식, 노인문제인식 등 지역사회문제를 높이 인식하고, 사회적성취욕구, 자아인식, 문화적 가치지향 정도가 높고, 사회활동에 참여할수록 긍정적인 시민의식 형성이 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.1021-1028
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• 2013

Automatic facial expression recognition is a widely studied problem in computer vision and human-robot interaction. There has been a range of studies for representing facial descriptors for facial expression recognition. Some prominent descriptors were presented in the first facial expression recognition and analysis challenge (FERA2011). In that competition, the Local Gabor Binary Pattern Histogram Sequence descriptor showed the most powerful description capability. In this paper, we introduce hybrid facial representations for facial expression recognition, which have more powerful description capability with lower dimensionality. Our descriptors consist of a block-based descriptor and a pixel-based descriptor. The block-based descriptor represents the micro-orientation and micro-geometric structure information. The pixel-based descriptor represents texture information. We validate our descriptors on two public databases, and the results show that our descriptors perform well with a relatively low dimensionality.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2017

기존의 색상기반 얼굴인식 방법은 조명변화에 민감하며, 위변조의 가능성이 있기 때문에 다양한 산업분야에 적용되기 어려운 문제가 있었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 깊이 영상을 이용한 지역 이진 패턴(LBP) 기반의 얼굴인식 방법을 제안한다. 깊이 정보를 이용한 얼굴 검출 방법과 얼굴 인식을 위한 특징 추출 및 매칭 방법을 구현하고, 모의실험 결과를 바탕으로 제안된 방식의 인식 성능을 나타낸다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.589-592
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• 1999

Matching is a key problem in computer vision, image analysis and pattern recognition. In this paper a multiscale image matching algorithm by wavelet local extrema is proposed. This algorithm is based on the multiscale wavelet transform of the curvature which can utilize both the information of local extrema positions and magnitudes of transform results. This method has advantages in computational cost to a single scale image matching. It is also rotation-, translation-, and scale-independent image matching method. This matching can be used for the recognition of occluded objects.