• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.153-158
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• 2016

A detection algorithm of fallen pear bags caused by natural disaster like heavy rain, typhoon, hurricane, etc. is presented in this paper. The algorithm is developed for the gray pear bags with printed characters which are widely used at pear farms at Sangju and Naju producing large quantity of pears for export. It sets a region of interest (ROI) at first and then eliminates the regions having chromatic color in ROI. Morphological operation and prior information are used to eliminate small noises and several unusual regions and finally the regions of fallen pear bags are remained. The remained regions are analyzed and counted to estimate the scale of damage. Test images are consisted of the images taken at pear farms of Sangju and Naju at 2014. Experimental result shows that the detection rate of pear bags is more than 90% and also the proposed system can be implemented in real-time using hand-held devices because of its simple and parallel architecture.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.44-51
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• 2009

Text understand in natural images has become an active research field in the past few decades. In this paper, we present an automatic recognition system in Korean signboards with a complex background. The proposed algorithm includes detection, binarization and extraction of text for the recognition of shop names. First, we utilize an elaborate detection algorithm to detect possible text region based on edge histogram of vertical and horizontal direction. And detected text region is segmented by clustering method. Second, the text is divided into individual characters based on connected components whose center of mass lie below the center line, which are recognized by using a minimum distance classifier. A shape-based statistical feature is adopted, which is adequate for Korean character recognition. The system has been implemented in a mobile phone and is demonstrated to show acceptable performance.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.55-62
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• 2013

This paper deals with the design and implementation of a typing game especially for the disabled people such as children, the elderly, and the handicapped persons on hands. In order to increase the typing capability of such users the game is designed to increase the score whenever they correctly enter the words that appear randomly on the screen. Moreover it is devised to arose the interest by making them follow closer to bugs and insects running ahead when they type correctly many words as possible within a given time limit to eliminate the bugs at the collision; otherwise the distance becomes farther when they enter misspelled words. This functionality can develop the intellectual strength of the users. This typing game helps the disabled increase their typing capability, memorize the character key position, and feel emotionally good with excitement.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the legibility of one-syllable Korean characters with the participation of sixteen subjects. The experiment considered nine factors including age (young and old), gender (male and female), illuminance (150lx and 600lx), viewing distance (50cm and 200cm), material type (paper and LCD), typeface (Ming and Gothic), thickness (plain and bold), color contrast (black letter/white background and white letter/black background), and complexity (simple, complex, and number) to examine main effects with a $2^{6-3}\times3$ fractional factorial design. The dependent variables were minimum character size of 100% correctness, maximum character size of 0% correctness, and minimum character size of comfortable reading preference. The results of analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that age, illuminance, viewing distance and complexity were significant for all dependent variables, except gender which was significant only for the minimum character size of comfortable reading preference. In general, the young could see twofold smaller size letters than the elderly. The subjects could see smaller sized letters with the illuminance of 600lx and viewing distance of 50cm than 150lx and 200cm, respectively and also with numbers, simple characters, and complex characters in that order. The findings of this study could be characterized about the legibility of Korean characters and be good resources for developing its standard.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.17-22
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• 2020

What has been rapidly changed and developed is not only technology, but also language and culture, of which the diverse consensus has been speedily formed between generations and spread throughout all the social grades. Therefore, Neologisms need to be understood as part of the cultural history that is created at each period. We cannot keep neologisms, initially formed among the youths, from spreading all over the generations, not just for their enjoyment, convenience, and familiarity, but more for the fact that they are impossible to be replaced in use. Another reason is that a community is created according to language. The youths would like to make distance from the existing community by building an invisible wall of new language. This paper is intended to deal with neologisms, centered on visual pun. The characteristics of the Neologisms are the result of the tendency of the younger generation to avoid interference and to enjoy adding ingenuity to the existing order.That is why in all ages Neologisms are created, and although they differ in form, the principles of new word generation are old. We will also consider the historical characteristics of neologism in this paper.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.29-35
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• 2011

Safety and health related information for the proper use and handling of pesticides is usually printed on the surface of the pesticide products (bottle type or bag type) in the form of texts. But, the guidelines or standards for the appropriate presentation of the texts for the pesticide products are most vague or not practical. Thus, this study aimed to provide the preliminary guidelines for the text sizes based on the legibility experiments. Total twenty subjects from two age groups (young: n=10, old: n=10, five males and five females in each group) participated in the experiment. First, subjects read the text cards presented in the distance of 50cm from the eyes of the subjects. Eight different text card sets were prepared for different font type(thick gothic-type and fine gothic-type), thickness of font(plain and bold), and number of syllables (2 and 3 syllables). When subjects read the cards, the correctness of reading (correct or wrong) was recorded and the degree of discomfort (from 1: no discomfort at all to 4: can't read at all) was also evaluated for all the text sizes. Results showed that the character size should be 4 pt or larger for the young subjects to read at least one word correctly in all the text conditions. For the old subjects to read at least one word correctly, the character size should be five pt or larder. The average of the minimum character sizes for 100% correct answer is 6.1 pt for young subjects and 10.5 pt for old subjects, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.221-240
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• 1998

This study concerns information quality of the database which has been produced in the ASKERIC database. The measures used in this study were accuracy of the records. consistency, completeness and currency. Accuracy was measurred in terms of the keywords used in different ways in the US and Britain and the spelling errors in the records. Consistency was measured in terms of 'see also' and 'see reference' mechanism and character capitalization. Completeness was measured as follows： completeness of the search fields in the record and relevance of search fields. Currency was measured using the publication date. The experimental result showed that ERIC databases had some errors in terms of accuracy. consistency. completeness and currency. However, continuous striving for the automatic error checking functions and the policy of feedback from users have contributed to the improvement of the quality in ERIC databases.

• Archives of design research
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.259-270
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• 2002

In 1995, When people read a poem, the image that a poet intends to convey to readers shows in various colors according to the status of their emotion. Poetry is a bridge as well as a text, which connects this world and the poet's world. In such relationship, the communication through Types occurs. The realm of application of modern typography is widening due to the development of the Internet and mass media, and the ways of expression of which are changing with the help of lots of softwares. So, the modern typography is re-born as an organic language which is alive, breathing. Therefore, Types has the structural character similar to that of Typography, which is a language of image, creating today's movement, time, and space. The already existing poetry contains meanings but has a descriptive structures. On contrary, compared with the former, the type appeared in Hangul Concrete Poetry., itself is a poem in another realm due to the formality native to Hangul, and which appears in non-linear structure. So, in this thesis, I will analyze the formality and non-linear structure of Hangul Typography in order to widen the realm of research on typography, which is a very meaningful trial to visualize the literature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.393-398
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 ART2 기반 자가 생성 지도 학습 알고리즘을 이용한 운송 컨테이너 식별자 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 일반적으로 운송 컨테이너의 식별자들은 글자의 색이 검정색 또는 흰색으로 이루어져 있는 특징이 있다. 이러한 특성을 고려하여 원 컨테이너 영상에 대해 검은색과 흰색을 제외한 모든 부분을 잡음으로 처리하기 위해 퍼지를 이용한 잡은 판단 방법을 적용하여 식별자 영역과 잡음을 구별한다. 식별자 영역을 제외한 잡음 영역을 전체 영상의 평균 픽셀값으로 대체시킨다. 그리고 Sobel 마스크를 이용하여 에지를 검출하고, 추출된 에지를 이용하여 수직 블록과 수평 블록을 검출하여 컨테이너의 식별자 영역을 추출하고 이진화한다. 이진화된 식별자 영역에 대해 검정색의 빈도수를 이용하여 흰바탕과 민바탕을 구분하고 8방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 개별 식별자를 추출한다. 개별 식별자 인식을 위해 ART2 기반 자가 생성 지도 학습 알고리즘은 입력층과 은닉층 사이에 ART2를 적용하여 은닉층의 노드를 생성하고, 은닉층과 출력층 사이에 일반화된 델타 학습 방법과 Delta-bar-Delta 알고리즘을 적용하여 학습 성능을 개선한다. 실제 컨테이너 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 식별자 추출 방법보다 제안된 식별자 추출 방법이 개선되었다. 그리고 기존의 식별자 인식 알고리즘보다 제안된 ART2 기반 자가 생성 지도 학습 알고리즘이 식별자의 학습 및 인식에 있어서 우수한 성능이 있음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.126-128
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• 2018

왜(倭)는 15-20회의 견당사를 파견하였는데, 838년 견당사의 항해와 관련해서는 이에 동승한 엔닌(円仁)이 "입당구법순례행기"를 남김으로써 그 항해의 전말이 상세하게 남아 있다. 이 기록에서 특히 관심을 끄는 것은 엔닌이 승선한 견당사선이 중국의 양주 해릉현 연안에 표착하였을 당시 기사에 언급된 정체를 알 수 없는 '누아'에 관한 기사다. 여기에서 누(?)는 ?(괭이 누), ?(김맬 누)와 같으며, '낫'이나 '호미'를 뜻하지만, 아는 중국이나 일본에서 전혀 사용되지 않는 한자어여서 글자 그대로 무엇을 의미하는 지가 불분명하다. 따라서 누아가 무엇을 의미하는지에 대해 선저 결구, 횡강력재, 피수판 등 여러 견해가 제기된 바 있다. 이 논문은 "입당구법순례행기"에 기록된 선박부재 '누아'가 무엇인지 살펴본 것이다. 먼저 "입당구법순례행기"의 여러 편역본에 '누아'가 어떻게 번역 내지 해석되고 있는지 살펴보고, 왜의 견당사선의 선형이 어땠을 지를 검토한 뒤, 이 선형의 견당사선이었을 경우 '누아'는 선박의 어떤 부재였을지를 추정해 보고자 한다. 특히 누아를 '피수판'으로 보는 최근식의 견해와 '??(진복)'의 오기로 보아 '횡강력재'로 보는 허일의 견해를 비판적으로 재검토할 것이다. 결론적으로 누아는 녹복(??)(기댈 녹, 들보 복, 즉 지지용 들보)의 오기로 판단했다. 또한 일본학자들이 견당사선을 '중국형 정크선'으로 추정하는 것과는 달리, 중국형 선박에는 선저와 상부에 횡강력재가 각각 독립해 있는 부재가 없는 것으로 보아 견당사선은 화선형 선박이거나, 한선형 선박일 것으로 추정하였다. 결론적으로 엔닌이 언급한 누아는 화선형 선박일 경우 船梁(후나바리), 한선형 선박일 경우 가룡목과 가목으로 볼 수 있다.