• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.2109-2123
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• 2017

This paper presents a super-resolution reconstruction method based on sparse representation for two-dimensional bar code images. Considering the features of two-dimensional bar code images, Kirsch and LBP (local binary pattern) operators are used to extract the edge gradient and texture features. Feature extraction is constituted based on these two features and additional two second-order derivatives. By joint dictionary learning of the low-resolution and high-resolution image patch pairs, the sparse representation of corresponding patches is the same. In addition, the global constraint is exerted on the initial estimation of high-resolution image which makes the reconstructed result closer to the real one. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for two-dimensional bar code images by comparing with other reconstruction algorithms.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1001-1002
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 조명 또는 장면의 갑작스러운 변화에 효과적으로 배경모델링을 하기 위해 국부이진패턴을 이용한 다중 배경모델링 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 각 장면에서 독립적인 배경모델을 이용하여 모델 업데이트를 실시한다. 이후 검출된 전경 영역의 비율이 일정 임계치를 넘게 되면 기존의 모델 중 적합한 모델을 찾거나 새로운 모델을 생성하여 현재 배경모델을 대체한다. 이는 배경모델의 성능을 유지하면서 효율적으로 장면의 변화에 바로 대응할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 실험결과에서는 실내조명이 갑작스럽게 변하는 영상과 Pan Tilt Zoom 카메라를 이용한 다중 영상에서 제안한 방법이 효과적으로 동작함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.6133-6151
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• 2017

The field of periocular biometrics has gained wide attention as an alternative or supplemental means to conventional biometric traits such as the iris or the face. Periocular biometrics provide intermediate resolution between the iris and the face, which enables it to support both. We have developed a periocular recognition system by using uniform Multiscale Local Binary Pattern (uMLBP) and attribute features. The proposed system has been evaluated in terms of major factors that need to be considered on a mobile platform (e.g., distance and facial pose) to assess the feasibility of the use of periocular biometrics on mobile devices. Experimental results showed 98.7% of rank-1 identification accuracy on a subset of the Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) database, which is the best performance among similar studies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.708-711
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• 2016

일반적인 얼굴인식 시스템에서는 얼굴표현과 얼굴분류 과정을 통하여 얼굴인식을 수행한다. 얼굴표현 방법으로는 LBP(Local Binary Pattern) 방법이 많이 사용되고 있다. 얼굴분류 방법으로는 신경망을 이용하여 미리 학습을 시켜놓기 때문에 수행시간이 매우 짧은 신경망 방법이 많이 사용되고 있다. 이때 얼굴표현 과정에서 LBP를 사용한 후 신경망을 사용하여 얼굴분류를 수행하면 인식률이 낮고 학습시간이 오래 걸리는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 신경망을 이용하여 얼굴 인식 과정을 수행하기 적합한 얼굴 표현 과정인 라플라시안 필터를 이용한 알고리즘을 제안한다. LBP와 신경망을 이용한 얼굴인식 과정과 본 논문에서 제안한 얼굴인식 과정을 비교분석한 실험결과, 본 논문에서 제안한 방법이 학습에 걸리는 시간과 인식률이 우수함을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.134-136
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• 2015

영상 역 하프토닝은 입력된 하프톤 영상으로부터 그레이 영상을 복원시키는 것으로, 하프톤 영상으로 처리하지 못하는 다양한 영상처리를 가능하게 해주는 방법이다. 기존의 참조표를 이용한 역 하프토닝 방법은 다양한 하프톤 영상과 원본 그레이 영상으로부터 추출한 정보를 이용해 입력 영상을 복원시키는데, 본 논문에서는 이를 바탕으로 하여 영상의 질을 전반적으로 향상시킬 수 있는 국부적인 이진 패턴 기반 참조표를 이용한 영상 역 하프토닝 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 참조표를 이용한 역하프토닝 방법을 이용해 영상을 복원한 후 각 픽셀에서의 국부 이진패턴을 계산하여 각 픽셀 값을 패턴에 따라 분류한다. 분류된 패턴 정보에 따라 국부 이진 패턴 기반 참조표를 생성하고 이를 통해 입력 하프톤 영상에 대한 역 하프토닝을 수행한다. 실험 결과는 제안하는 알고리즘이 오류 확산법에 의해 변환된 하프톤 이미지를 역 하프토닝 했을 때, 기존의 역 하프토닝 방법에 비해 더 나은 PSNR을 달성하는 것을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.878-880
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• 2015

파티클 필터 기반 얼굴추적은 비교적 빠른 속도와 구현의 용이성으로 널리 사용되고 있으나 조명이나 포즈변화가 있는 영상에서 드리프트(drift) 현상에 의해 얼굴추적의 정확도가 급격히 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 앞에 언급한 얼굴의 다양성에 강인한 얼굴 텍스처 특징을 제안한다. 제안방법은 인접한 픽셀들 간의 관계를 고려한 텍스처 패턴을 정의할 때 인접한 픽셀들의 평균(average)을 적용하여 조명변화에 강인하다. 또한 얼굴의 구조적 정보를 반영한 블록 기반의 텍스처 패턴 풀링(pooling)에 의해 포즈변화에 강인하다. 실제 감시환경을 가정해 CCTV 카메라로 자체 제작한 비디오 영상에서 Local Binary Pattern(LBP)와 같은 대표적인 특징들과 비교 실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과, 드리프트(drift) 폭이 적어 더 높은 얼굴추적 정확도를 보였으며 초당 28 프레임의 매우 빠른 처리속도를 보였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.193-198
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• 2022

Face Detection is one of the most important aspects of image processing, it considers a time-consuming problem in real-time applications such as surveillance systems, face recognition systems, attendance system and many. At present, commodity hardware is getting more and more heterogeneity in terms of architectures such as GPU and MIC co-processors. Utilizing those co-processors along with the existing traditional CPUs gives the algorithm a better chance to make use of both architectures to achieve faster implementations. This paper presents a hybrid implementation of the face detection based on the local binary pattern (LBP) algorithm that is deployed on both traditional CPU and MIC co-processor to enhance the speed of the LBP algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed implementation achieved improvement in speed by 3X when compared to a single architecture individually.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.103-112
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• 2022

The goal of pattern mining is to identify novel patterns in a database. High utility itemset mining (HUIM) is a research direction for pattern mining. This is different from frequent itemset mining (FIM), which additionally considers the quantity and profit of the commodity. Several algorithms have been used to mine high utility itemsets (HUIs). The original BPSO algorithm lacks local search capabilities in the subsequent stage, resulting in insufficient HUIs to be mined. Compared to the transfer function used in the original PSO algorithm, the V-shaped transfer function more sufficiently reflects the probability between the velocity and position change of the particles. Considering the influence of the acceleration factor on the particle motion mode and trajectory, a nonlinear acceleration strategy was used to enhance the search ability of the particles. Experiments show that the number of mined HUIs is 73% higher than that of the original BPSO algorithm, which indicates better performance of the proposed algorithm.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.4
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• pp.275-284
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• 2008

With increases in recent security requirements, biometric technology such as fingerprints, faces and iris recognitions have been widely used in many applications including door access control, personal authentication for computers, internet banking, automatic teller machines and border-crossing controls. Finger vein recognition uses the unique patterns of finger veins in order to identify individuals at a high level of accuracy. This paper proposes new device and methods for touchless finger vein recognition. This research presents the following five advantages compared to previous works. First, by using a minimal guiding structure for the finger tip, side and the back of finger, we were able to obtain touchless finger vein images without causing much inconvenience to user. Second, by using a hot mirror, which was slanted at the angle of 45 degrees in front of the camera, we were able to reduce the depth of the capturing device. Consequently, it would be possible to use the device in many applications having size limitations such as mobile phones. Third, we used the holistic texture information of the finger veins based on a LBP (Local Binary Pattern) without needing to extract accurate finger vein regions. By using this method, we were able to reduce the effect of non-uniform illumination including shaded and highly saturated areas. Fourth, we enhanced recognition performance by excluding non-finger vein regions. Fifth, when matching the extracted finger vein code with the enrolled one, by using the bit-shift in both the horizontal and vertical directions, we could reduce the authentic variations caused by the translation and rotation of finger. Experimental results showed that the EER (Equal Error Rate) was 0.07423% and the total processing time was 91.4ms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.25-44
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• 2010

With the increasing popularity of mobile devices, it has become necessary to protect private information and content in these devices. Face recognition has been favored over conventional passwords or security keys, because it can be easily implemented using a built-in camera, while providing user convenience. However, because mobile devices can be used both indoors and outdoors, there can be many illumination changes, which can reduce the accuracy of face recognition. Therefore, we propose a new face recognition method on a mobile device robust to illumination variations. This research makes the following four original contributions. First, we compared the performance of face recognition with illumination variations on mobile devices for several illumination normalization procedures suitable for mobile devices with low processing power. These include the Retinex filter, histogram equalization and histogram stretching. Second, we compared the performance for global and local methods of face recognition such as PCA (Principal Component Analysis), LNMF (Local Non-negative Matrix Factorization) and LBP (Local Binary Pattern) using an integer-based kernel suitable for mobile devices having low processing power. Third, the characteristics of each method according to the illumination va iations are analyzed. Fourth, we use two matching scores for several methods of illumination normalization, Retinex and histogram stretching, which show the best and $2^{nd}$ best performances, respectively. These are used as the inputs of an SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier, which can increase the accuracy of face recognition. Experimental results with two databases (data collected by a mobile device and the AR database) showed that the accuracy of face recognition achieved by the proposed method was superior to that of other methods.