• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.11C
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• pp.1140-1151
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• 2003

This paper proposes a face recognition method based on modified Otsu's binarization and Hu moment. Proposed method is robust to brightness, contrast, scale, rotation, and translation changes. As the proposed modified Otsu's binarization computes other thresholds from conventional Otsu's binarization, namely we create two binary images, we can extract higher dimensional feature vector. Here the feature vector has properties of robustness to brightness and contrast changes because the proposed method is based on Otsu's binarization. And our face recognition system is robust to scale, rotation, and translation changes because of using Hu moment. In the perspective of brightness, contrast, scale, rotation, and translation changes, experimental results with Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) database and the AR database showed that average recognition rates of conventional well-known principal component analysis (PCA) are 93.2% and 81.4%, respectively. Meanwhile, the proposed method for the same databases has superior performance of the average recognition rates of 93.2% and 81.4%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.65-68
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• 2000

This paper describes an approach for extracting invariant features using a view-based representation and recognizing an object with a high speed search method in FLIR. In this paper, we use a reformulated eigenspace technique based on robust estimation for extracting features which are robust for outlier such as noise and clutter. After extracting feature, we recognize an object using a partial distance search method for calculating Euclidean distance. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the improvement of recognition rate compared with standard PCA.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1883-1886
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• 2003

Gait is defined as "a manor of walking". It can used as a biometric measure to recognize known persons. Gait is an idiosyncratic feature determined by an individual's weight, stride length, and posture combined with characteristic motion. but its feature extracted from images varies with the viewpoint. In this paper, we propose a gait recognition method using a planer homography, which is robust for viewpoint variation. We represent an individual as key-silhouettes. And we endow key-silhouettes with weight calculated using the characteristic of PCA. Experimental result shows that proposed method is robust for viewpoint variation as images synthesised same viewpoint.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.533-535
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• 2006

In this paper, we experiment a face recognition rate of the shaded faces except to low dimension feature vectors; first, second, third dimension. It is known to robust the face recognition against illumination. But, it isn't obvious what is effect to recognition in terms of low dimension. We are analysis to the effect of low dimension(first, second, third dimension, and combination of these) under the shaded faces.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.465-468
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• 2000

얼굴 영상은 똑같은 표정의 같은 사람이라도 조명에 따라 매우 다른 얼굴 영상으로 나타난다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 조명 변화에 강인한 얼굴 인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 오프라인 훈련(off-line training)과 온라인 인식(on-line recognition)의 두 부분으로 이루어져 있다. 오프라인 훈련은 PCA(principal component analysis)를 기반으로 한다. 온라인 인식에서는 조명 변화에 대한 보상, 얼굴 특징의 추출, 그리고 인식을 위한 분류 과정의 3 단계로 구성되어 있다. 오프라인 훈련에서는 전체 훈련 얼굴 영상 데이터에 PCA를 적용하여 조명 변화가 최대한 제외된 특징 벡터 공간을 생성한다. 실제 인식 단계에서는 첫 번째로 입력 영상으로 들어온 얼굴 영상에서 조명의 영향을 보상하기 위해 준동형 필터링(homomorphic filtering) 후 밝기 정규화(normalization)를 취한다. 두 번째 단계에서는 입력 데이터의 차원을 줄이고 얼굴 특징 벡터를 구하기 위해 PCA를 수행한다. 마지막 과정으로서 입력 영상의 특징 벡터들과 오프라인에서 미리 구하여진 특징 벡터들의 유사도를 측정하여 얼굴을 인식하게 된다. 실험 결과 제안된 방법은 기존의 Eigenface 방법에 비해 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.55 no.4
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• pp.1303-1315
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• 2018

For principal component analysis (PCA) to efficiently analyze large scale matrices, it is crucial to find a few singular vectors in cheaper computational cost and under lower memory requirement. To compute those in a fast and robust way, we propose a new stochastic method. Especially, we adopt the stochastic variance reduced gradient (SVRG) method [11] to avoid asymptotically slow convergence in stochastic gradient descent methods. For that purpose, we reformulate the PCA problem as a unconstrained optimization problem using a quadratic penalty. In general, increasing the penalty parameter to infinity is needed for the equivalence of the two problems. However, in this case, exact penalization is guaranteed by applying the analysis in [24]. We establish the convergence rate of the proposed method to a stationary point and numerical experiments illustrate the validity and efficiency of the proposed method.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.162-170
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• 2014

Appearance-based subspace models such as eigenfaces have been widely recognized as one of the most successful approaches to face recognition and tracking. The success of eigenfaces mainly has its origins in the benefits offered by principal component analysis (PCA), the representational power of the underlying generative process for high-dimensional noisy facial image data. The sparse extension of PCA (SPCA) has recently received significant attention in the research community. SPCA functions by imposing sparseness constraints on the eigenvectors, a technique that has been shown to yield more robust solutions in many applications. However, when SPCA is applied to facial images, the time and space complexity of PCA learning becomes a critical issue (e.g., real-time tracking). In this paper, we propose a very fast and scalable greedy forward selection algorithm for SPCA. Unlike a recent semidefinite program-relaxation method that suffers from complex optimization, our approach can process several thousands of data dimensions in reasonable time with little accuracy loss. The effectiveness of our proposed method was demonstrated on real-world face recognition and tracking datasets.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.163-169
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• 2004

In this paper. we propose a shaded recognition method using symmetric feature. When the existing PCA is applied to shaded face images, the recognition rate is decreased. To improve the recognition rate, we use facial symmetry. If the difference of light and shade is greater than a threshold value, we make a mirror image by replacing the dark side with the bright side symmetrically Then the mirror image is compared with a query image. We compare the performance of the proposed algorithm with the existing algorithms such as PCA, PCA without three eigenfaces and histogram equalization methods. The recognition rate of our method shows $98.889\%$ with the excellent result.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.417-424
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• 2010

In this paper the real-time face region was detected by suggesting the rectangular feature-based classifier and the robust detection algorithm that satisfied the efficiency of computation and detection performance was suggested. By using the detected face region as a recognition input image, in this paper the face recognition method combined with PCA and the multi-layer network which is one of the intelligent classification was suggested and its performance was evaluated. As a pre-processing algorithm of input face image, this method computes the eigenface through PCA and expresses the training images with it as a fundamental vector. Each image takes the set of weights for the fundamental vector as a feature vector and it reduces the dimension of image at the same time, and then the face recognition is performed by inputting the multi-layer neural network.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.1786-1792
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• 2007

In this paper, we proposed a recognition system for resident registration cards using ART-1 and PCA algorithm. To extract registration numbers and issue date, Sobel mask and median filter are applied first and noise removal follows. From the noise-removed image, horizontal smearing is used to extract the regions, which are binarized with recursive binarization algorithm. After that vortical smearing is applied to restore corrupted lesions, which are mainly due to the horizontal smearing. from the restored image, areas of individual codes are extracted using 4-directional edge following algorithm and face area is extracted by the morphologic characteristics of a registration card. Extracted codes are recognized using ART-1 algorithm and PCA algorithm is used to verify the face. When the proposed method was applied to 25 real registration card images, 323 characters from 325 registration numbers and 166 characters from 167 issue date numbers, were correctly recognized. The verification test with 25 forged images showed that the proposed verification algorithm is robust to detect forgery.