• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.57-65
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• 2010

Recently, the character recognization technique is strongly needed to enable the mobile communication devices with cameras to gather input information from the users. In general, it is not easy to reuse a CBOCR(Camera Based Optical Character Recognizer) module because of its dependency on a specific platform. In this paper, we propose a software architecture for CBOCR module providing the easy adaptability to various mobile communication platforms. The proposed architecture is composed of the platform dependency support layer, the interface layer, the engine support layer, and the engine layer. The engine layer adopts a plug-in data structure to support various hardware endian policies. We show the effectiveness of the proposed method by applying the architecture to a practical product.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.243-245
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• 2016

광학 문자 인식(OCR)을 통해 문서의 글자를 인식할 때 띄어쓰기 오류가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위해 OCR의 후처리 과정으로 동적 프로그래밍을 이용한 분절(Segmentation) 방식의 띄어쓰기 오류 교정 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템의 띄어쓰기 오류 교정 과정은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 띄어쓰기 오류가 있다고 분류된 어절 내의 공백을 모두 제거한다. 둘째, 공백이 제거된 문자열을 동적 프로그래밍을 이용한 분절로 입력 문자열에 대하여 가능한 모든 띄어쓰기 후보들을 찾는다. 셋째, 뉴스 기사 말뭉치와 그 말뭉치에 기반을 둔 띄어쓰기 확률 모델을 참조하여 각 후보의 띄어쓰기 확률을 계산한다. 마지막으로 띄어쓰기 후보들 중 확률이 가장 높은 후보를 교정 결과로 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시스템을 이용하여 OCR의 띄어쓰기 오류를 해결할 수 있었다. 향후 띄어쓰기 오류 교정에 필요한 언어 규칙 등을 시스템에 추가한 띄어쓰기 교정시스템을 통하여 OCR의 최종적인 인식률을 향상에 대해 연구할 예정이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.810-812
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• 2015

문자인식 즉 OCR(Optical Character Recognition)기술은 광학적으로 인식할 수 있는 문자를 컴퓨터가 읽을 수 있도록 하는 기술을 뜻한다. 문자인식의 근간이 되는 방법은 스트링 매칭 기법이 사용되어 왔지만 한글의 경우 자음, 모음, 자음 조합으로 만 가지 유형이 넘고, 더욱이 상용한자와 영어를 섞어 쓰기 때문에 오인식되는 경우가 많다. 본 논문에서는 한글이 수직선, 수평선, 사선과 같이 방향성이 강한 선소들로 구성되어 있다는 점을 이용하여 한글의 인식률을 높이는 방법을 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.697-698
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 시각 장애우의 식품 안전성 증진을 위해 광학 문자 인식 (optical character recognition, OCR) 및 실시간 객체 인식 (you only look once, YOLO) 알고리즘에 기반한 식품의 유통기한 자동 알림 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 1) 스마트폰 카메라를 통해 실시간으로 입력되는 영상에서 YOLO 알고리즘을 활용하여 유통기한으로 예측되는 이미지 영역을 검출하고, 2) 검출된 영역에서 OCR 알고리즘을 활용하여 유통기한 데이터를 추출하며, 3) 최종 추출된 유통기한 데이터를 음성으로 변환하여 시각 장애우에게 전달한다. 개발된 시스템은 유통기한 정보를 추출해서 사용자에게 전달하기까지 평균 약 7초 이내의 빠른 응답 속도를 보였으며, 62.8%의 객체 인식 정확도와 93.6%의 문자 인식 정확도를 보였다. 이러한 결과들은 제안하는 시스템을 시각 장애우들이 실용적으로 활용할 수 있다는 가능성을 보여준다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.453-458
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• 2024

Optical Character Recognition is the technology that recognizes text in images and converts them into digital format. Deep learning-based OCR is being used in many industries with large quantities of recorded data due to its high recognition performance. To improve medical services, deep learning-based OCR was actively introduced by the medical industry. In this paper, we discussed trends in OCR engines and medical OCR and provided a roadmap for development of medical OCR. By using natural language processing on detected text data, current medical OCR has improved its recognition performance. However, there are limits to the recognition performance, especially for non-standard handwriting and modified text. To develop advanced medical OCR, databaseization of medical data, image pre-processing, and natural language processing are necessary.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.269-276
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• 2018

OCR(Optical Character Recognition) using computers has been developed for 20 years and applied to various fields such as parking management based on the recognition of license plates of cars. This technology was also used in the development of our smart OCR-based household ledger. In order to improve filling the purchase history into a smartphone based household account book, we can take pictures of receipts with the smarphone camera and automatically organize the purchase list. In this process, the recognition rate of the characters of the receipt image is not high enough with OCR technology. We could improve the rate by applying the image processing technology and adjusting the contrast of the receipt image. The rate improved from 89% to 92.5%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.447-448
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• 2018

라벨인식과 같은 광학 문자 인식은 영상처리를 활용한 컴퓨터 비전의 대표적인 연구분야이다. 본 연구에서는 딥러닝 기반의 라벨인식 시스템을 고안하였다, 생산 라인에 적용되는 라벨인식 시스템은 인식 속도가 중요하기 때문에 기존의 R-CNN기반의 딥러닝 신경망보다 월등히 빠른 오브젝트 검출 시스템 YOLO를 활용하여 문자를 학습 및 인식 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 기존 시스템에 근접하는 문자인식 정확도를 제공하고 자동으로 문자영역을 검출 가능하며, 라벨의 인쇄불량을 판독하도록 하였다. 또한 개발, 배포, 적용이 한번에 가능한 프레임워크를 통하여 생산현장에서 발생하는 다양한 이미지 처리에 활용될 전망이다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.1-6
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• 2020

In this study, research on character recognition, which is one of the fields of computer vision, was conducted. Optical character recognition, which is one of the most widely used character recognition techniques, suffers from decreasing recognition rate if the recognition target deviates from a certain standard and format. Hence, this study aimed to address this limitation by applying deep learning techniques to character recognition. In addition, as most character recognition studies have been limited to English or number recognition, the recognition range has been expanded through additional data training on Korean text. As a result, this study derived a deep learning-based character recognition algorithm for Korean text recognition. The algorithm obtained a score of 0.841 on the 1-NED evaluation method, which is a similar result to that of English recognition. Further, based on the analysis of the results, major issues with Korean text recognition and possible future study tasks are introduced.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.10
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• pp.904-911
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an effective method for the distinction between machine-printed and handwritten Korean address images. It is important to know whether an input image is handwritten or machine-printed, because methods for handwritten image are quite different from those of machine-printed image in such applications as address reading, form processing, FAX routing, and so on. Our method consists of three blocks: valid connected components grouping, feature extraction, and classification. Features related to width and position of groups of valid connected components are used for the classification based on a neural network. The experiment done with live Korean address images has demonstrated the superiority of the proposed method. The correct classification rate for 3,147 testing images was about 98.85%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.124-132
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• 2002

In this paper, we present a vision algorithm and method for input image improvement and preprocessing of dented and raised characters on the sidewall of tires. we define optical condition between reflect coefficient and reflectance by the physical vector calculate. On the contrary this work will recognize the engraved characters using the computer vision technique. Tire input images have all most same grey levels between the characters and backgrounds. The reflectance is little from a tire surface. therefore, it's very difficult segment the characters from the background. Moreover, one side of the character string is raised and the other is dented. So, the captured images are varied with the angle of camera and illumination. For optimum Input images, the angle between camera and illumination was found out to be with in 90$^{\circ}$. In addition, We used complex filtering with low-pass and high-pass band filters to improve input images, for clear input images. Finally we define equation reflect coefficient and reflectance. By doing this, we obtained good images of tires for pattern recognition.