• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.259-266
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• 2011

We present a new method for an automated markerless system to describe, analyze, and classify human gait motion. The automated system consists of three stages: I) detection and extraction of the moving human body and its contour from image sequences, ii) extraction of gait figures by the joint angles and body points, and iii) analysis of motion parameters and feature extraction for classifying human gait. A sequential set of 2D stick figures is used to represent the human gait motion, and the features based on motion parameters are determined from the sequence of extracted gait figures. Then, a k-nearest neighbor classifier is used to classify the gait patterns. In experiments, this provides an alternative estimate of biomechanical parameters on a large population of subjects, suggesting that the estimate of variance by marker-based techniques appeared generous. This is a very effective and well-defined representation method for analyzing the gait motion. As such, the markerless approach confirms uniqueness of the gait as earlier studies and encourages further development along these lines.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2016

Recently, it has become an important problem to extract semantic objects from videos, which are useful for improving the performance of video compression and video retrieval. In this thesis, an automatic extraction method of moving objects of interest in video is suggested. We define that an moving object of interest should be relatively large in a frame image and should occur frequently in a scene. The moving object of interest should have different motion from camera motion. Moving object of interest are determined through spatial continuity by the AMOS method and moving histogram. Through experiments with diverse scenes, we found that the proposed method extracted almost all of the objects of interest selected by the user but its precision was 69% because of over-extraction.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.1195-1209
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• 1997

This paper presents a new morphological spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm. The algorithm incorporates luminance and motion information simultaneously, and uses morphological tools such as morphological filtersand watershed algorithm. The procedure toward complete segmentation consists of three steps:joint marker extraction, boundary decision, and motion-based region fusion. First, the joint marker extraction identifies the presence of homogeneours regions in both motion and luminance, where a simple joint marker extraction technique is proposed. Second, the spatio-temporal boundaries are decided by the watershed algorithm. For this purposek, a new joint similarity measure is proposed. Finally, an elimination ofredundant regions is done using motion-based region function. By incorporating spatial and temporal information simultaneously, we can obtain visually meaningful segmentation results. Simulation results demonstratesthe efficiency of the proposed method.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.1373-1379
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• 2006

움직임 객체의 추출은 비디오 서비스 등에서 주요한 연구목적 중의 하나이다. 본 논문은 블록 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 움직임 객체를 추출하는 새로운 기법을 제시한다. 이를 위하여, 1) 사후 확률 밀도와 Gibbs 랜덤필드의 이용하여 블록 움직임 벡터를 결정하고, 2) 2-D 히스토그램을 바탕으로 전역 움직임을 구하고, 3) 경계 블록 분할 단계를 통해 객체 추출을 달성한다. 제안된 알고리듬은 특히 압축된 비디오 신호의 움직임 객체에 특히 유용하게 이용될 수 있다. 제안된 알고리듬을 여러 가지 영상에 적용한 결과 양호한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 제14회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.139-142
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• 2001

This paper presents a highly fast and accurate facial region extraction method by using the skin-color-reference map and motion information. First, we construct the robust skin-color-reference map and eliminate the background in image by this map. Additionally, we use the motion information for accurate and fast detection of facial region in image sequences. Then we further apply region growing in the remaining areas with the aid of proposed criteria. The simulation results show the improvement in execution time and accurate detection.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.178-183
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• 2008

Human motion analysis is researched as a new method for human-robot interaction (HRI) because it concerns with the key techniques of HRI such as motion tracking and pose recognition. To analysis human motion, extracting features of human body from sequential images plays an important role. After finding the silhouette of human body from the sequential images obtained by CCD color camera, the skeleton model is frequently used in order to represent the human motion. In this paper, using the silhouette of human body, we propose the feature extraction method based on hybrid skeleton for detecting human motion. Finally, we show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method through some experiments.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 동작인식 위한 정확한 배경 분할 및 특징점 추출 방법을 제안한다. 배경 분할 과정에서는 먼저, HSV 입력 이미지를 RGB 색상 공간에서 HSV 색상 공간으로 변환한 뒤, H와 S 값에 대한 두 개의 임계치를 사용하여 살색 영역을 분할, 프레임간의 차영상을 이용하여 움직임이 있는 영역을 추출한다. 차영상에서 발생하는 잔상 영역을 제거하기 위하여 헤시안 어파인 영역 검출기를 적용하고, 잡음이 제거된 차 영상과 살색 영역의 이진화 영상을 이용하여 사람의 동작이 나타나는 영역을 분할한다. 특징점 추출 과정은 전체 영상을 블록 단위로 나눠서 각 블록 안에서 분할된 영상에 포함되는 픽셀들의 중점을 구하여 특징점을 추출한다. 실험결과 복잡한 환경에서도 정확한 배경 분할과 사용자 동작을 대표하는 특징점 추출이 약 12 fps로 가능함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.913-918
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 인간과 로봇의 인터액션을 위해 연속된 이미지 정보로부터 얻을 수 있는 색상(color)과 기울기(gradient) 정보를 이용하여 인간 몸의 실루엣 추출 기법을 제안한다. 연속된 이미지 정보로부터 얻어진 RGB 영상 정보에서 색상 배경 제거 기법은 각각의 신체 비율 정보로부터 추출된 모션 영역 정보에서 색상 공판별 평균 이미지 정보를 얻고 옷 색상 정보를 볼록 합하여 계산된다. 기울기 배경 제거 기법은 공간상 정보와 시간상 정보의 볼록 합으로 계산된다. 최종적으로 색상 정보와 기울기 정보의 볼록 합을 하여 인간 몸의 실루엣을 추출한다. 마지막으로, 실험을 통하여 제안된 기법의 성능을 확인하였다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2007년도 학술대회 1부
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• pp.667-674
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• 2007

Facial expressions provide significant clues about one's emotional state; however, it always has been a great challenge for machine to recognize facial expressions effectively and reliably. In this paper, we report a method of feature-based adaptive motion energy analysis for recognizing facial expression. Our method optimizes the information gain heuristics of ID3 tree and introduces new approaches on (1) facial feature representation, (2) facial feature extraction, and (3) facial feature classification. We use minimal reasonable facial features, suggested by the information gain heuristics of ID3 tree, to represent the geometric face model. For the feature extraction, our method proceeds as follows. Features are first detected and then carefully "selected." Feature "selection" is finding the features with high variability for differentiating features with high variability from the ones with low variability, to effectively estimate the feature's motion pattern. For each facial feature, motion analysis is performed adaptively. That is, each facial feature's motion pattern (from the neutral face to the expressed face) is estimated based on its variability. After the feature extraction is done, the facial expression is classified using the ID3 tree (which is built from the 1728 possible facial expressions) and the test images from the JAFFE database. The proposed method excels and overcomes the problems aroused by previous methods. First of all, it is simple but effective. Our method effectively and reliably estimates the expressive facial features by differentiating features with high variability from the ones with low variability. Second, it is fast by avoiding complicated or time-consuming computations. Rather, it exploits few selected expressive features' motion energy values (acquired from intensity-based threshold). Lastly, our method gives reliable recognition rates with overall recognition rate of 77%. The effectiveness of the proposed method will be demonstrated from the experimental results.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2021년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.52-54
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• 2021

In this paper we propose a method predict whether a video frame contains motion according to the invoking situation of the coding unit mode in HEVC. The motion prediction of video frames is conducive for use in video compression and video data extraction. In the existing technology, motion prediction is usually performed by high complexity computer vision technology. However, we proposed to analyze the motion frame based on HEVC coding unit mode which does not need to use the static background frame. And the prediction accuracy rate of motion frame analysis by our method has exceeded 80%.