• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1807-1823
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• 2016

Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and its variants have powerful discriminative capabilities but most of them just consider each LBP code independently. In this paper, we propose sub oriented histograms of LBP for smoke detection and image classification. We first extract LBP codes from an image, compute the gradient of LBP codes, and then calculate sub oriented histograms to capture spatial relations of LBP codes. Since an LBP code is just a label without any numerical meaning, we use Hamming distance to estimate the gradient of LBP codes instead of Euclidean distance. We propose to use two coordinates systems to compute two orientations, which are quantized into discrete bins. For each pair of the two discrete orientations, we generate a sub LBP code map from the original LBP code map, and compute sub oriented histograms for all sub LBP code maps. Finally, all the sub oriented histograms are concatenated together to form a robust feature vector, which is input into SVM for training and classifying. Experiments show that our approach not only has better performance than existing methods in smoke detection, but also has good performance in texture classification.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.621-629
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• 2016

본 논문은 소아 및 성인의 중이염을 자동 판별할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 중이염 영상과 정상 영상 데이터베이스에서 HoG(histogram of oriented gradient) 기술자를 사용하여 특징을 추출한 다음 SVM(support vector machine) 분류기를 통하여 추출된 특징들을 학습시킨다. 여기서 SVM 입력 벡터의 추출을 위하여 입력영상은 영상크기를 사전에 정의된 일정크기의 영상으로 변환되고 변환된 영상을 16개의 블록과 4개의 셀로 분할하며 9개의 빈을 가진 HoG를 사용한다. 결과적으로 입력 영상에서 576개의 특징을 추출하고 이를 SVM의 학습과 분류에 사용된다. 입력 영상이 학습된 특징들의 모델을 기반으로 SVM 분류기를 통하여 중이염 여부가 판별된다. 실험 결과 제안한 방법은 정확도 90% 이상의 판별 성능을 나타내었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.2124-2148
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• 2017

Accurate facial expression recognition (FER) requires reliable signal filtering and the effective feature extraction. Considering these requirements, this paper presents a novel approach for FER which is robust to noise. The main contributions of this work are: First, to preserve texture details in facial expression images and remove image noise, we improved the anisotropic diffusion filter by adjusting the diffusion coefficient according to two factors, namely, the gray value difference between the object and the background and the gradient magnitude of object. The improved filter can effectively distinguish facial muscle deformation and facial noise in face images. Second, to further improve robustness, we propose a new feature descriptor based on a combination of the Histogram of Oriented Gradients with the Canny operator (Canny-HOG) which can represent the precise deformation of eyes, eyebrows and lips for FER. Third, Canny-HOG's block and cell sizes are adjusted to reduce feature dimensionality and make the classifier less prone to overfitting. Our method was tested on images from the JAFFE and CK databases. Experimental results in L-O-Sam-O and L-O-Sub-O modes demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method. Meanwhile, the recognition rate of this method is not significantly affected in the presence of Gaussian noise and salt-and-pepper noise conditions.