• 대한한의진단학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.233-240
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• 2013

Objectives The objective and universal grading system for the facial nerve palsy is needed to the objectification of treatment in Oriental medicine. In this study, the facial nerve palsy grading was developed with combination of image processing technique and Nottingham scale. Methods The developed system is composed of measurement part, image processing part, facial nerve palsy evaluation part, and display part. With the video data recorded by webcam at measurement part, the positions of marker were measured at image processing part. In evaluation part, Nottingham scales were calculated in four different facial expressions with measured marker position. The video of facial movement, time history of marker position, and Nottingham scale were displayed in display part. Results & Conclusion The developed system was applied to a normal subject and a abnormal subject with facial nerve palsy. The left-right difference of Nottingham scores was large in the abnormal compared with the normal. In normal case, the change of the length between supraorbital point and infraorbital point was larger than that of the length between lateral canthus and angle of mouth. The abnormal case showed an opposite result. The developed system showed the possibilities of the objective and universal grading system for the facial nerve palsy.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.140-143
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a probabilistic approach to determining whether extracted facial features from a video sequence are appropriate for creating a 3D face model. In our approach, the distance between two feature points selected from the MPEG-4 facial object is defined as a random variable for each node of a probability network. To avoid generating an unnatural or non-realistic 3D face model, automatically extracted 2D facial features from a video sequence are fed into the proposed probabilistic network before a corresponding 3D face model is built. Simulation results show that the proposed probabilistic network can be used as a quality control agent to verify the correctness of extracted facial features.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.45-49
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• 2008

Face detection and tracking technology on video sequence has developed indebted to commercialization of teleconference, telecommunication, front stage of surveillance system using face recognition, and video-phone applications. Complex background, color distortion by luminance effect and condition of luminance has hindered face recognition system. In this paper, we have proceeded to research of face recognition on video sequence. We extracted facial area using luminance and chrominance component on $YC_bC_r$ color space. After extracting facial area, we have developed the face recognition system applied to our improved algorithm that combined PCA and LDA. Our proposed algorithm has shown 92% recognition rate which is more accurate performance than previous methods that are applied to PCA, or combined PCA and LDA.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(3)
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• pp.193-196
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a model based 3d facial modeling method for virtual reality application using only one front of face photography. We extract facial feature using facial photography and modify mesh of the basic 3D model by the facial feature. After this , We use texture mapping for more similarity. By experiment, we know that the modeling technic is useful method for Movie, Virtual Reality Application, Game , Clothing Industry , 3D Video Conference.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.535-544
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• 2004

With video compression standards such as MPEG-4, a transmission error happens in a video-packet basis, rather than in a macroblock basis. In this context, we propose a semantic error prioritization method that determines the size of a video packet based on the importance of its contents. A video packet length is made to be short for an important area such as a facial area in order to reduce the possibility of error accumulation. To facilitate the semantic error prioritization, an efficient hardware algorithm for face tracking is proposed. The increase of hardware complexity is minimal because a motion estimation engine is efficiently re-used for face tracking. Experimental results demonstrate that the facial area is well protected with the proposed scheme.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.55-70
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• 2009

비전기반 인간컴퓨터 상호작용은 컴퓨터와 인간의 상호소통을 자연스럽게 제공하는 측면에서 과학과 산업분야에서 주목받는 연구 분야이다. 그러한 측면에서 얼굴표정인식에 의한 인간의 심리적 상태를 추론하는 기술은 중요한 이슈이다. 본 연구에서는 감성인식 HMM 모델과 광류에 기반한 얼굴 움직임 추적 방법을 이용하여 동영상으로부터 얼굴표정을 인식하는 새로운 방법을 제시하였다. 특히, 기존의 감성상태 변환을 설명하는 HMM 모델은 특정 표정상태 간의 전환 시 항상 중립 상태를 거치도록 설계되어 있다. 그러나 본 연구에서는 기존의 표정상태 전환 모델에 중간상태를 거치는 과정 없이 특정 표정 상태간의 변환이 가능한 확장된 HMM 모델을 제시한다. 동영상으로부터 얼굴의 특성정보를 추출하기 위하여 탬플릿 매칭과 광류방법을 적용하였다. 광류에 의해 추적된 얼굴의 표정특성 정보는 얼굴표정인식을 위한 HMM의 매개변수 정보로 사용된다. 실험을 통하여 제안된 얼굴표정인식 방법이 실시간 얼굴 표정인식에 효과적임을 입증하였다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2019

본 논문은 모바일 환경에서의 BCG기반 심박 수 측정을 위한 향상된 심박 신호 추출 방법을 제안한다. 우선, 모바일 카메라를 이용하여 사용자의 얼굴을 촬영한 비디오로부터 얼굴 특징과 배경 특징을 동시에 추적함으로써 손 떨림에 의한 영향을 제거한 머리 움직임 신호를 추출한다. 그리고 머리 움직임 신호로부터 심박 신호를 정확하게 분리해내기 위해 신호의 주기성을 계산하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 모바일 얼굴 비디오로부터 강건하게 심박 신호를 추출할 수 있으며, 기존 방법에 비해 보다 정확하게 심박 수 측정(측정 오차가 3-4 bpm 감소)을 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1657-1662
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• 2017

Facial expression recognition systems using video devices have emerged as an important component of natural human-machine interfaces which contribute to various practical applications such as security systems, behavioral science and clinical practices. In this work, we present a new method to analyze, represent and recognize human facial expressions using a sequence of facial images. Under our proposed facial expression recognition framework, the overall procedure includes: accurate face detection to remove background and noise effects from the raw image sequences and align each image using vertex mask generation. Furthermore, these features are reduced by principal component analysis. Finally, these augmented features are trained and tested using Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The experimental evaluation demonstrated the proposed approach over two public datasets such as Cohn-Kanade and AT&T datasets of facial expression videos that achieved expression recognition results as 96.75% and 96.92%. Besides, the recognition results show the superiority of the proposed approach over the state of the art methods.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권10C호
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• pp.983-991
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• 2005

드라마와 같은 비디오에서 사람의 얼굴은 일반적으로 자주 등장하며 비디오 내용을 분석하기 위한 유용한 정보를 제공한다. 얼굴검출은 얼굴인식 및 얼굴영상의 DB 관리와 같은 응용분야에 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 비디오 등장인물 검색을 위한 얼굴검출 기법을 제안하였다. 전체 과정은 크게 세단계로 구성되며 첫 번째 장면전환 검출단계, 두 번째 얼굴영역 검출단계, 마지막으로 얼굴의 특징점인 눈과 입 검출단계로 구성되며, 색상에 기반한 얼굴영역 검출단계에서 발생된 얼굴 특징점을 눈과 입의 검출에 적용하였다. 실험결과 다양한 환경에서 성공적으로 얼굴을 검출하며, 기존의 색상기반 얼굴검출 방법에 비해 측면영상에서 $24\%$의 성능향상을 보였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.215-220
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• 2022

Emotion recognition is one of the most important and challenging areas of computer vision. Nowadays, many studies on emotion recognition were conducted and the performance of models is also improving. but, more research is needed on emotion recognition and sentiment analysis of video viewers. In this paper, we propose an emotion analysis system the includes a sentiment analysis model and an interest prediction model. We analyzed the emotional patterns of people watching popular and unpopular videos and predicted the level of interest using the emotion analysis system. Experimental results showed that certain emotions were strongly related to the popularity of videos and the interest prediction model had high accuracy in predicting the level of interest.