• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11c
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• pp.147-149
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• 2004

There are no authentic solutions in a face region extraction problem though it is an important part of pattern recognition and has diverse application fields. It is not easy to develop the facial region extraction algorithm because the facial image is very sensitive according to age, sex, and illumination. In this paper, to solve these difficulties, a fuzzy color filer based on the facial region extraction algorithm is proposed. The fuzzy color filter makes the robust facial region extraction enable by modeling the skin color. Especially, it is robust in facial region extraction with various illuminations. In addition, to identify the fuzzy color filter, a linear matrix inequality(LMI) optimization method is used. Finally, the simulation result is given to confirm the superiority of the proposed algorithm.

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.25-36
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• 2008

Eye localization means localization of the center of the pupils, and is necessary for face recognition and related applications. Most of eye localization methods reported so far still need to be improved about robustness as well as precision for successful applications. In this paper, we propose a robust eye localization method using multi-scale Gabor feature vectors without big computational burden. The eye localization method using Gabor feature vectors is already employed in fuck as EBGM, but the method employed in EBGM is known not to be robust with respect to initial values, illumination, and pose, and may need extensive search range for achieving the required performance, which may cause big computational burden. The proposed method utilizes multi-scale approach. The proposed method first tries to localize eyes in the lower resolution face image by utilizing Gabor Jet similarity between Gabor feature vector at an estimated initial eye coordinates and the Gabor feature vectors in the eye model of the corresponding scale. Then the method localizes eyes in the next scale resolution face image in the same way but with initial eye points estimated from the eye coordinates localized in the lower resolution images. After repeating this process in the same way recursively, the proposed method funally localizes eyes in the original resolution face image. Also, the proposed method provides an effective illumination normalization to make the proposed multi-scale approach more robust to illumination, and additionally applies the illumination normalization technique in the preprocessing stage of the multi-scale approach so that the proposed method enhances the eye detection success rate. Experiment results verify that the proposed eye localization method improves the precision rate without causing big computational overhead compared to other eye localization methods reported in the previous researches and is robust to the variation of post: and illumination.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.821-829
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• 2004

A face recognition has been used for verifying and authorizing valid users, but its applications have been restricted according to lighting conditions. In order to minimizing the restricted conditions, this paper proposes a new algorithm of detecting the face from the input image obtained under the irregular lighting condition. First, the proposed algorithm extracts an edge difference image from the input image where a skin color and a face contour are disappeared due to the background color or the lighting direction. In the next step, it extracts a face region using the histogram of the edge difference image and the intensity information. Using the intensity information, the face region is divided into the horizontal regions with feasible facial features. The each of horizontal regions is classified as three groups with the facial features(including eye, nose, and mouth) and the facial features are extracted using empirical properties of the facial features. Only when the facial features satisfy their topological rules, the face region is considered as a face. It has been proved by the experiments that the proposed algorithm can detect faces even when the large portion of face contour is lost due to the inadequate lighting condition or the image background color is similar to the skin color.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.809-817
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• 2002

This paper describes a new face detection method that is a pre-processing algorithm for on-line face recognition. To complement the weakness of using only edge or rotor features from previous face detection method, we propose the two types of face detection method. The one is a combined method with edge and color features and the other is a center area color sampling method. To prevent connecting the people's face area and the background area, which have same colors, we propose a new adaptive edge detection algorithm firstly. The adaptive edge detection algorithm is robust to illumination variance so that it extracts lots of edges and breakouts edges steadily in border between background and face areas. Because of strong edge detection, face area appears one or multi regions. We can merge these isolated regions using color information and get the final face area as a MBR (Minimum Bounding Rectangle) form. If the size of final face area is under or upper threshold, color sampling method in center area from input image is used to detect new face area. To evaluate the proposed method, we have experimented with 2,100 face images. A high face detection rate of 96.3% has been obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.727-729
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• 2004

최근 정보 보안의 문제를 해결하기 위하여 생체 정보를 이용하여 사용자 인증 및 인식을 하는 기술들이 개발되고 있다 생체 정보를 이용하는 인증 및 인식 기술은 생체 정보를 가지고 사람을 구별하는 기술을 말하며 신뢰성과 편리성에 있어서 기존의 다른 보안 시스템의 한계점을 보완해 줄 것이다. 현재 연구되고 있는 얼굴 인식 기술은 생체인식 중에서 이용자들에게 가장 거부감이 적은 기술이다. 얼굴인식의 장점은 다른 생체인식 기술이 사용자로 하여금 일정한 동작을 취하도록 요구하는 것과 달리 비접촉으로 자연스럽게 확인 할 수 있는 것이며, 사용자는 자신이 현재 검사 당하고 있다는 사실을 인지하지 못하는 상태에서 수행되므로 거부감이 적다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.459-460
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• 2007

얼굴인식에서 조명에 의한 얼굴영상의 왜곡은 인식률에 큰 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위해 다양한 조명환경에서도 인식률의 변화가 거의 없는 방법을 제안하였다. 얼굴인식에 사용하는 영상의 전처리 방법으로 대부분 히스토그램 이퀄라이제이션(Histogram Equalization) 과정을 거친다. 그러나 이 방법은 영상 전체에 적용되는 것이기 때문에 어두운 영역에 숨어있는 얼굴특징을 부각시키는 데에 한계가 있다. 따라서 얼굴영상이 가지고 있는 성질에 따라 임계값을 정하고 이를 기준으로 밝은 부분과 어두운 부분을 분할한다. 여기에 얼굴의 특징들이 더욱 선명해지도록 화질을 향상시켰다. 이 전처리 과정을 거쳐 PCA를 사용하여 얼굴인식을 수행한 결과 평균 99.6%라는 높은 인식률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.236-238
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• 2003

Human face detection is often the first step in applications such as video surveillance, human computer interface, fare recognition, and image database management. We have constructed a simple and fast system to detect frontal human faces in complex environment and different illumination. This paper presents a fast segmentation method to combine neighboring pixels with similar hue. The algorithm constructs eye, mouth, and boundary maps for verifying each fare candidate. We test the system on images in complex environment and with confusing objects. The experiment shows a robust detection result with few false detected fates.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

As the security requirements of mobile phones have been increasing, there have been extensive researches using one biometric feature (e.g., an iris, a fingerprint, or a face image) for authentication. Due to the limitation of uni-modal biometrics, we propose a method that combines face and iris images in order to improve accuracy in mobile environments. This paper presents four advantages and contributions over previous research. First, in order to capture both face and iris image at fast speed and simultaneously, we use a built-in conventional mega pixel camera in mobile phone, which is revised to capture the NIR (Near-InfraRed) face and iris image. Second, in order to increase the authentication accuracy of face and iris, we propose a score level fusion method based on SVM (Support Vector Machine). Third, to reduce the classification complexities of SVM and intra-variation of face and iris data, we normalize the input face and iris data, respectively. For face, a NIR illuminator and NIR passing filter on camera are used to reduce the illumination variance caused by environmental visible lighting and the consequent saturated region in face by the NIR illuminator is normalized by low processing logarithmic algorithm considering mobile phone. For iris, image transform into polar coordinate and iris code shifting are used for obtaining robust identification accuracy irrespective of image capturing condition. Fourth, to increase the processing speed on mobile phone, we use integer based face and iris authentication algorithms. Experimental results were tested with face and iris images by mega-pixel camera of mobile phone. It showed that the authentication accuracy using SVM was better than those of uni-modal (face or iris), SUM, MAX, NIN and weighted SUM rules.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.801-806
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• 2004

Although the technology for emotion recognition is important one which demanded in various fields, it still remains as the unsolved problem. Especially, it needs to develop the algorithm based on human facial image. In this paper, we propose the facial image analysis algorithm for emotion recognition. The proposed algorithm is composed as the facial image extraction algorithm and the facial component extraction algorithm. In order to have robust performance under various illumination conditions, the fuzzy color filter is proposed in facial image extraction algorithm. In facial component extraction algorithm, the virtual face model is used to give information for high accuracy analysis. Finally, the simulations are given in order to check and evaluate the performance.