• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.184-194
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• 1997

In the recent years number of commercial off-line character recognition systems have been appeared in the Korean market. This paper describes a "self -organizing" data structure for representing a large dictionary which can be searched in real time and uses a practical amount of memory, and presents a study on the character correction for off-line printed sentence marks, Japanese, English, and Chinese character recognition. Self-organizing algorithm can be recommenced as particularly appropriate when we have reasons to suspect that the accessing probabilities for individual words will change with time and theme. The wrongly recognized characters generated by OCR systems are collected and analyzed Error types of English characters are reclassified and 0.5% errors are corrected using an English character confusion table with a self-organizing dictionary containing 25,145 English words. And also error types of Chinese characters are classified and 6.1% errors are corrected using a Chinese character confusion table with a self-organizing dictionary carrying 34,593 Chinese words.ese words.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.41-46
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• 2016

전통적으로 바이오인식기술은 출입국심사(전자여권, 승무원 승객 신원확인), 출입통제(도어락, 출입통제 근태관리), 행정(무인민원발급, 전자조달), 사회복지(미아찾기, 복지기금관리), 의료(원격의료, 의료진 환자 신원확인), 정보통신(휴대폰 PC 인터넷 인증), 금융(온라인 뱅킹, ATM 현금인출) 등 다방면에서 폭넓게 보급되어 실생활에서 널리 활용되고 있다. [그림1]은 신체적 특징(Physiological biometrics)과 행동적 특징(Behavioral biometrics)을 이용한 사용자 인증기술인 바이오인식기술의 유형과 함께 각 기술별 보안취약점(괄호 안 빨강색글자)을 나타내고 있다. 최근 들어, 모바일 지급결제서비스 ATM 인출기 인터넷전문은행 등과 같은 핀테크 분야에서 비대면 인증기술로 바이오인식기술이 각광을 받기 시작했다. 한편, 가짜지문 등 기존의 신체적 특징을 이용한 바이오인식기술의 위변조 위협에 대한 우려 존재함에 따라 뇌파 심전도 근전도 맥박 등 살아있는 사람의 행동적(신체의 기능적) 특징을 이용한 생체신호를 이용하여 비대면 인증기술로서 활용하기 위하여 주요 선진국에서 차세대 바이오인식 기술개발이 가속화되고 있는 추세이다.[1] 또한, 이러한 생체신호는 최근에 삼성전자, LG전자, 애플 등에서 스마트워치를 통해 심장박동수를 측정하고 스마트폰을 통하여 모바일 지급결제, 헬스케어 등과 같은 IoT 모바일 융복합 응용서비스에 활용될 전망이다. 본고에서는 뇌파 심전도(심박수)와 같은 생체신호를 측정하는 스마트워치 밴드형 의복형 또는 패치형태의 웨어러블 디바이스와 같은 생체신호센서, 생체신호 인증기술 및 관련표준화 동향을 고찰해 보기로 한다. 국내외 관련기술과 표준화 동향을 면밀히 분석하여 지난 2015년 5월29일에 발족한 국내외 전문가그룹인 KISA"모바일 생체신호 인증기술 표준연구회"(이하 KISA 표준연구회)가 구심점이 되어 한국형 생체신호를 이용한 차세대 텔레바이오인식기술에 대한 연구개발과 국내외 표준화 추진에 박차를 가할 계획이다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.1273-1280
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• 1996

In order perform high accuracy recognition of text recognition systems, the recognized text must be processed through a post-processing stage using contextual information. We present a system that combines multiple knowledge sources to post-process the output of an optical character recognition(OCR) system. The multiple knowledge sources include characteristics of word, wrongly recognized types of Hangul characters, and Hangul word learning In this paper, the wrongly recognized characters which are made by OCR systems are collected and analyzed. We imput a Korean dictionary with approximately 15 0,000 words, and Korean language texts of Korean elementary/middle/high school. We found that only 10.7% words in Korean language texts of Korean elementary/middle /high school were used in a Korean dictionary. And we classified error types of Korean character recognition with OCR systems. For Hangul word learning, we utilized indexes of texts. With these multiple knowledge sources, we could predict a proper word in large candidate words.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.10-19
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• 2003

Caption information in news videos can be useful for video indexing and retrieval since it usually suggests or implies the contents of the video very well. In this paper, a new algorithm for extracting and recognizing characters from news video is proposed, without a priori knowledge such as font type, color, size of character. In the process of text region extraction, in order to improve the recognition rate for videos with complex background at low resolution, continuous frames with identical text regions are automatically detected to compose an average frame. The image of the averaged frame is projected to horizontal and vertical direction, and we apply region filling to remove backgrounds to produce the character. Then, K-means color clustering is applied to remove remaining backgrounds to produce the final text image. In the process of character recognition, simple features such as white run and zero-one transition from the center, are extracted from unknown characters. These feature are compared with the pre-composed character feature set to recognize the characters. Experimental results tested on various news videos show that the proposed method is superior in terms of caption extraction ability and character recognition rate.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.33-40
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• 2008

The application of OCR moves from traditional formatted documents to the web document and natural scene images. It is usual that the new applications use not only standard fonts of Myungjo and Godic but also various fonts. The conventional databases which have mainly been constructed with standard fonts have limitations in applying to the new applications. In this paper, we generate 243 image samples for each of 2350 Hangul character classes which differs in font size, quality, and resolution. Additionally each sample was varied according to binarization threshold and rotational transformation. Through this process 2187 samples were generated for each character class. Totally 5,139,450 samples constitutes the printed Hangul character database called the PHD08. In addition, we present the characteristics and recognition performance by an commercial OCR software.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.2400-2410
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• 2000

Many researches on recognition of Korean characters have been undertaken. But while the majority are done on Korean character recognition, tasks for developing document recognition system have seldom been challenged. In this paper, I designed a recognizer of Korean courtesy amounts to improve error correction in recognized character string. From the very first step of Korean character recognition, we face the enormous scale of data. We have 2350 characters in Korean. Almost the previous researches tried to recognize about 1000 frequently-used characters, but the recognition rates show under 80%. Therefore using these kinds of recognizers is not efficient, so we designed a statistical multiple recognizer which recognize 16 Korean characters used in courtesy amounts. By using multiple recognizer, we can prevent an increase of errors. For the Postprocessor of Korean courtesy amounts, we use the properties of Korean character strings. There are syntactic rules in character strings of Korean courtesy amounts. By using this property, we can correct errors in Korean courtesy amounts. This kind of error correction is restricted only to the Korean characters representing the unit of the amounts. The first candidate of Korean character recognizer show !!i.49% of recognition rate and up to the fourth candidate show 99.72%. For Korean character string which is postprocessed, recognizer of Korean courtesy amounts show 96.42% of reliability. In this paper, we suggest a method to improve the reliability of Korean courtesy amounts recognition by using the Korean character recognizer which recognize limited numbers of characters and the postprocessor which correct the errors in Korean character strings.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.161-170
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• 2019

Multi-product mass production small and medium enterprise factories have a wide variety of products and a large number of products, wasting manpower and expenses for inventory management. In addition, there is no way to check the status of inventory in real time, and it is suffering economic damage due to excess inventory and shortage of stock. There are many ways to build a real-time data collection environment, but most of them are difficult to afford for small and medium-sized companies. Therefore, smart factories of small and medium enterprises are faced with difficult reality and it is hard to find appropriate countermeasures. In this paper, we implemented the contents of extension of existing inventory management method through character extraction on label with barcode and QR code, which are widely adopted as current product management technology, and evaluated the effect. Technically, through preprocessing using OpenCV for automatic recognition and classification of stock labels and barcodes, which is a method for managing input and output of existing products through computer image processing, and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function of Google vision API. And it is designed to recognize the barcode through Zbar. We propose a method to manage inventory by real-time image recognition through Raspberry Pi without using expensive equipment.

• 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.

• 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.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.240-244
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• 2008

This paper presents an EMG-based wireless and wearable computer interface. The wearable device contains 4 channel EMG sensors and is able to acquire EMG signals using signal processing. Obtained signals are transmitted to a host computer through wireless communication. EMG signals induced by the volitional movements are acquired from four sites in the lower limb to extract a user's intention and six classes of wrist movements are discriminated by employing an artificial neural network (ANN). This interface could provide an aid to the limb disabled to directly access to computers and network environments without conventional computer interface such as a keyboard and a mouse.