• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1690-1710
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose the rapid implementation of a 3-dimensional (3D) facial reconstruction from a single frontal face image and introduce a design for its application on a mobile device. The proposed system can effectively reconstruct human faces in 3D using an approach robust to lighting conditions, and a fast method based on a Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) algorithm to estimate the depth. The reconstruction system is built by first creating 3D facial mapping from a personal identity vector of a face image. This mapping is then applied to real-world images captured with a built-in camera on a mobile device to form the corresponding 3D depth information. Finally, the facial texture from the face image is extracted and added to the reconstruction results. Experiments with an Android phone show that the implementation of this system as an Android application performs well. The advantage of the proposed method is an easy 3D reconstruction of almost all facial images captured in the real world with a fast computation. This has been clearly demonstrated in the Android application, which requires only a short time to reconstruct the 3D depth map.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

The images, which were acquired from various systems such as CCTV and Robot, include many human faces. Because of a rapid increase in visual data, we cannot process these manually; rather we need to do these automatically. Furthermore, companies require automatic security systems to protect their new technology. There are various options available to us, including face recognition, iris recognition and fingerprint recognition. Face recognition is preferable since it does not require direct contact. However, the standard 2-Dimensional method is limited, so Morphable Models may be recommended as an alternative. The original morphable model, made by MPI, contains a large quantity of data such as texture and geometry data. This paper presents a Geometrix-based morphable model designed to reduce this data capacity.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.248-254
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• 2023

This study aims to measure the skin rigidity of different facial areas among Koreans and propose guidelines for each area's skin rigidity that can be applied with a facial robot for testing respiratory protective devices. The facial skin rigidity of 40 participants, which included 20 men and 20 women, aged 20 to 50, was analyzed. The rigidity measurement was conducted in 13 facial areas, including six areas in contact with the mask and seven non-contact areas, by referring to the facial measurement guidelines of Size Korea. The facial rigidity was measured using the Durometer RX-1600-OO while in a supine position. The measurement procedure involved contacting the durometer vertically with the reference point, repeating the measurement of the same area five times, and using the average of three values whose variability was between 0.4 and 4.2 Shore OO. The rigidity data analysis used precision analysis, descriptive statistics analysis, and mixed-effect ANOVA. The analysis confirmed the rigidity of the 13 measurement areas, with the highest rigidity of the face being at the nose and forehead points, with values of 51.2 and 50.8, respectively, and the lowest rigidity being at the chin and center of the cheek points, with values of 19.2 and 20.7, respectively. Significant differences between gender groups were observed in four areas: the tip of the nose, the point below the chin, the area below the lower jaw, and the inner concha.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.131-138
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• 2020

This paper proposes a low-cost robotic surgery system composed of a general purpose robotic arm, an interface for daVinci surgical robot tools and a modular haptic controller utilizing smart actuators. The 7 degree of freedom (DOF) haptic controller is suspended in the air using the gravity compensation, and the 3D position and orientation of the controller endpoint is calculated from the joint readings and the forward kinematics of the haptic controller. Then the joint angles for a general purpose robotic arm is calculated using the analytic inverse kinematics so that that the tooltip reaches the target position through a small incision. Finally, the surgical tool wrist joints angles are calculated to make the tooltip correctly face the desired orientation. The suggested system is implemented and validated using the physical UR5e robotic arm.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.379-384
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• 2009

A human gaze detection and tracing method is importantly required for HMI(Human-Machine-Interface) like a Human-Serving robot. This paper proposed a novel three-dimension (3D) human gaze estimation method by using a face recognition, an orientation estimation and SVMs (Support Vector Machines). 2,400 images with the pan orientation range of $-90^{\circ}{\sim}90^{\circ}$ and tilt range of $-40^{\circ}{\sim}70^{\circ}$ with intervals unit of $10^{\circ}$ were used. A stereo camera was used to obtain the global coordinate of the center point between eyes and Gabor filter banks of horizontal and vertical orientation with 4 scales were used to extract the facial features. The experiment result shows that the error rate of proposed method is much improved than Liddell's.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.100.3-100
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• 2002

This paper presents the method for detection and tracking of multiple humans robustly in mobile platform. The perception of human is performed in real time through the processing of images acquired from a moving stereo vision system. We performed multi-cue integration such as human shape, skin color and depth information to detect and track each human in moving background scene. Human shape is measured by edge-based template matching on distance transformed image. Improving robustness for human detection, we apply the human face skin color in HSV color space. And we could increase the accuracy and the robustness in both detection and tracking by applying random sampling stochastic estimati...

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.80-82
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• 1997

A robust position control system for a BLDC motor using new sliding mode control strategy is presented. Using the new variable structure system, reaching phase problem is eliminated and transient response is largely improved by design of nonlinear sliding surface. The design of the sliding mode position controller is robust in motor parameter, load variations and disturbance. Experiment results show that the proposed approach can achieve accurate position motor tracking in face of large parameter variations and external disturbances, such as a robot arm, etc.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.885-888
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 카메라가 장착된 2 족 보행 로봇을 이용한 얼굴 검출 및 추적 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 PCA(Principal Component Analysis) 기반의 시스템으로서 얼굴을 검출하기 위해 먼저, 스킨칼라 정보와 모션 정보를 사용하고, 그 이후에 PCA 를 사용하여 스킨칼라 영역에서 실제 얼굴이 있는지를 검증 한다. 새로 검출된 얼굴과 이전에 추적되는 얼굴 사이의 동일성은 Eigenspace 상에서의 Euclidian distance 를 사용하여 검증한다. 2 족 보행 로봇이 얼굴을 추적하기 위해서는, 검출된 얼굴 영역이 카메라 스크린 중심 영역에 계속 유지되도록 로봇의 움직임을 조절해 간다. 제안된 시스템은 움직임이 많고, 조명 변화나 배경의 변화가 심한 환경에서도, 얼굴을 잘 검출하고 추적 하였으며, 다른 2 족 보행 시스템이나 인간과 로봇의 상호작용을 위한 제스처 인식 시스템으로의 확장도 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.578-578
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• 2002

Thermal infrared imaging is a highly promising technology for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of electronic, electrical and mechanical elements in nuclear power plants. However, conventional low-cost infrared imaging systems suffer from poor spatial resolution compared to commercial CCD cameras. This paper describes an approach to enhance inspection performances for calandria reactor area of Wolsung nuclear power plant through the technique of superimposing thermal infrared image into real CCD image. In the occurrence of thermal abnormalities on observation points and areas of calandria reactor area, unusual hot image taken from thermal infrared camera is mapped upon real CCD image. The performance of the technique has been evaluated in the experiment carried out at Wolsung nuclear power plant in the overhaul period. The results show that localizations of thermal abnormalities on calandria reactor face can be estimated accurately.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.131-134
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 가정용 로봇 및 서비스 로봇과 같은 이동로봇에서 사용자의 감정을 인식하는 방법중 한가지인 얼굴영상을 이용한 감정인식 방법을 제안한다. 얼굴영상인식을 위하여 얼굴의 여러 가지 특징(눈썹, 눈, 코, 입)의 움직임 및 위치를 이용하며, 이동로봇에서 움직이는 사용자를 인식하기 위한 움직임 추적 알고리즘을 구현하고, 획득된 사용자의 영상에서 얼굴영역 검출 알고리즘을 사용하여 얼굴 영역을 제외한 손과 배경 영상의 피부색은 제거한다. 검출된 얼굴영역의 거리에 따른 영상 확대 및 축소, 얼굴 각도에 따른 영상 회전변환 등의 정규화 작업을 거친 후 이동 로봇에서는 항상 고정된 크기의 얼굴 영상을 획득 할 수 있도록 한다. 또한 기존의 특징점 추출이나 히스토그램을 이용한 감정인식 방법을 혼합하여 인간의 감성 인식 시스템을 모방한 로봇에서의 감정인식을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 다중 특징점 추출 방식을 통하여 이동로봇에서의 얼굴 영상을 이용한 사용자의 감정인식 시스템을 제안한다.