• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권12C호
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• pp.984-994
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• 2010

Pose variation is a critical problem in face recognition. Three-dimensional(3D) face recognition techniques have been proposed, as 3D data contains depth information that may allow problems of pose variation to be handled more effectively than with 2D face recognition methods. This paper proposes a pose-normalized 3D face modeling method that translates and rotates any pose angle to a frontal pose using a plane fitting method by Singular Value Decomposition(SVD). First, we reconstruct 3D face data with stereo vision method. Second, nose peak point is estimated by depth information and then the angle of pose is estimated by a facial plane fitting algorithm using four facial features. Next, using the estimated pose angle, the 3D face is translated and rotated to a frontal pose. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we designed 2D and 3D face recognition experiments. The experimental results show that the performance of the normalized 3D face recognition method is superior to that of an un-normalized 3D face recognition method for overcoming the problems of pose variation.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.59-68
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 측면 포즈 정규화를 통해 얻어진 부분영역을 이용해 대상의 포즈 변화에 강인한 얼굴인식 방법을 제안한다. 포즈변화에 강인한 얼굴인식을 위해 일반적으로 사용되는 방법인 포즈 정규화 방법은 포즈정규화과정 중에 가려져 보이지 않는 영역에 대한 정보를 가지고 있지 않기 때문에 문제가 발생하게 된다 일반적으로는 보상을 통해 문제를 해결 하고 있지만, 보상에 의해 영상이 왜곡이 되거나 특징정보를 잃는 경우가 많다. 이런 문제를 해결하기 위해 깊이찬가 큰 영역에서 주로 발생하는 왜곡을 줄이도록 정면이 아닌 측면으로의 정규화를 시도한다 또한 정규화후 왜곡이 발생한 영역은 제거하고 왜곡이 발생하지 않은 영역만을 이용해 인식과정을 수행한다 포즈가 좌우변화만 존재하는 경우와 상하변화도 존재하는 경우 두 가지 경우로 나누어 다루었으며 각각의 경우에 대해 실험을 통해 인식 성능의 향상을 확인하였다

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.211-212
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• 2007

Pose-variation factors present a significant problem in 2D face recognition. To solve this problem, there are various approaches for a 3D face acquisition system which was able to generate multi-view images. However, this created another pose estimation problem in terms of normalizing the 3D face data. This paper presents a 3D head pose-normalization method using 2D and 3D interaction. The proposed method uses 2D information with the AAM(Active Appearance Model) and 3D information with a 3D normal vector. In order to verify the performance of the proposed method, we designed an experiment using 2.5D face recognition. Experimental results showed that the proposed method is robust against pose variation.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.1745-1753
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• 2004

A method of estimating the pose of a three-dimensional object from a set of two-dimensioal images based on parametric eigenspace method is proposed. A Gaussian blurred edge image is used as an input image instead of the original image itself as has been used previously. The set of input images is compressed using K-L transformation. By comparing the estimation errors for the original, blurred original, edge, and blurred edge images, we show that blurring with the Gaussian function and the use of edge images enhance the data compression ratio and decrease the resulting from smoothing the trajectory in the parametric eigenspace, thereby allowing better pose estimation to be achieved than that obtainable using the original images as it is. The proposed method is shown to have improved efficiency, especially in cases with occlusion, position shift, and illumination variation. The results of the pose angle estimation show that the blurred edge image has the mean absolute errors of the pose angle in the measure of 4.09 degrees less for occlusion and 3.827 degrees less for position shift than that of the original image.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.455-456
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• 2006

This paper presents an automatic pose-normalized 3D face data acquisition method using 2D and 3D information. We propose an automatic pose-normalized 3D face acquisition method that accomplishes 3D face modeling and 3D face pose-normalization at once. The proposed method uses 2D information with AAM (Active Appearance Model) and 3D information with 3D normal vector. The 3D face modeling system consists of 2 cameras and 1 projector. In order to verify proposed pose-normalized 3D modeling method, we made an experiment for 2.5D face recognition. The experimental result shows that proposed method is robust against pose variation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.50-57
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• 2005

We present a simple and effective method of face and facial feature detection under pose variation of user face in complex background for the human-robot interaction. Our approach is a flexible method that can be performed in both color and gray facial image and is also feasible for detecting facial features in quasi real-time. Based on the characteristics of the intensity of neighborhood area of facial features, new directional template for facial feature is defined. From applying this template to input facial image, novel edge-like blob map (EBM) with multiple intensity strengths is constructed. Regardless of color information of input image, using this map and conditions for facial characteristics, we show that the locations of face and its features - i.e., two eyes and a mouth-can be successfully estimated. Without the information of facial area boundary, final candidate face region is determined by both obtained locations of facial features and weighted correlation values with standard facial templates. Experimental results from many color images and well-known gray level face database images authorize the usefulness of proposed algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1485-1490
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• 2004

Recently, we have remarkable developments in intelligent robot systems. The remarkable features of intelligent robot are that it can track user, does face recognition and vital for many surveillance based systems. Advantage of face recognition when compared with other biometrics recognition is that coerciveness and contact that usually exist when we acquire characteristics do not exist in face recognition. However, the accuracy of face recognition is lower than other biometric recognition due to decrease in dimension from of image acquisition step and various changes associated with face pose and background. Factors that deteriorate performance of face recognition are many such as distance from camera to face, lighting change, pose change, and change of facial expression. In this paper, we implement a new 3D active camera system to prevent various pose variation that influence face recognition performance and propose face recognition algorithm for intelligent surveillance system and mobile robot system.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.1033-1034
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• 2008

To solve Pose-variation problem in 3D, we propose an iterative 3D head pose normalization method using 2D and 3D interaction. The proposed method uses 2D information with the AAM(Active Appearance Model) and 3D information with a 3D normal vector.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2388-2398
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• 2017

In this study, we propose a robust face recognition system to pose variations based on automatic pose estimation. Radial basis function neural network is applied as one of the functional components of the overall face recognition system. The proposed system consists of preprocessing and recognition modules to provide a solution to pose variation and high-dimensional pattern recognition problems. In the preprocessing part, principal component analysis (PCA) and 2-dimensional 2-directional PCA ($(2D)^2$ PCA) are applied. These functional modules are useful in reducing dimensionality of the feature space. The proposed RBFNNs architecture consists of three functional modules such as condition, conclusion and inference phase realized in terms of fuzzy "if-then" rules. In the condition phase of fuzzy rules, the input space is partitioned with the use of fuzzy clustering realized by the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm. In conclusion phase of rules, the connections (weights) are realized through four types of polynomials such as constant, linear, quadratic and modified quadratic. The coefficients of the RBFNNs model are obtained by fuzzy inference method constituting the inference phase of fuzzy rules. The essential design parameters (such as the number of nodes, and fuzzification coefficient) of the networks are optimized with the aid of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Experimental results completed on standard face database -Honda/UCSD, Cambridge Head pose, and IC&CI databases demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of face recognition system compared with other studies.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제35권10호
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• pp.600-607
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• 2008

이 논문은 방향성 2차원 타원형 필터(Multiple Oriented 2D Elliptical Filters;MO2DEFs)를 사용하여 스테레오 영상으로부터 포즈에 강인한 사람 검출을 제안한다. 기존의 물체 지향 크기 적응 필터(Object Oriented Scale Adaptive Filter;OOSAF)는 정면을 보고 있는 사람만을 검출하는 단점을 지니고 있는데 반해 제안한 방향성 2차원 타원형 필터는 사람의 크기나 포즈에 관계없이 사람을 검출하고 추적한다. 2D 공간-깊이 히스토그램에 특정 각도로 향하는 4개의 2차원 타원형 필터들을 적용하고, 필터링 된 히스토그램에서 임계값을 통해서 사람을 검출한 다음, MO2D2EFs 중 승적 결과가 가장 큰 2차원 타원형 필터의 방향을 사람의 방향으로 판단한다. 사람 후보들은 얼굴을 검출하거나 검출된 사람의 선택된 방향의 머리-어께 형태를 정합함으로서 검증한다. 실험 결과는 (1) 포즈 각도 예측의 정확도는 약 88%이고, (2) 제안한 MO2DEFs를 사용한 사람 검출의 성능이 OOSAF를 사용한 사람 검출의 성능보다 $15{\sim}20%$만큼 향상되었으며, 특히 정면이 아닌 사람의 경우에 더 향상이 있었다.