• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.1347-1359
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• 2005

We propose an efficient block classification of the document images using the second-order statistical texture features computed from spatial gray level dependence matrix (SGLDM). We studied on the techniques that will improve the block speed of the segmentation and feature extraction speed and the accuracy of the detailed classification. In order to speedup the block segmentation, we binarize the gray level image and then segmented by applying smoothing method instead of using texture features of gray level images. We extracted seven texture features from the SGLDM of the gray image blocks and we applied these normalized features to the BP (backpropagation) neural network, and classified the segmented blocks into the six detailed block categories of small font, medium font, large font, graphic, table, and photo blocks. Unlike the conventional texture classification of the gray level image in aerial terrain photos, we improve the classification speed by a single application of the texture discrimination mask, the size of which Is the same as that of each block already segmented in obtaining the SGLDM.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06b
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• pp.45-50
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• 1999

이진 영상의 압축은 디지털 도서관, 팩시밀리 전송, 문서 입출력 시스템과 같이 한정된 대역폭과 저장 공간을 가진 응용 분야에서 절실히 요구되고 있다. 현재 많은 영상 압축 알고리즘이 채택하고 있는 대역분할 기법을 문서와 같은 이진 영상의 압축에 적용한다면, 점진적 전송, 축소영상을 통한 빠른 검색 등의 장점을 얻을 수 있다. 그러나, 이진 영상 신호가 두 단계의 휘도 값을 가지므로, 이에 적합한 대역분할 방법과 산술부호기를 선택하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 표본화-XOR 대역분할 기법을 선택하여, 알파벳 수의 증가를 막고 공간영역에서 국부적인 성질을 얻을 수 있다 또한, 넓은 단일-색 영역을 Zerotree로 대표하여 부호화 되는 신호의 수를 줄이고, 대역분할 구조에서 예측성의 저하를 막기 위한 적절한 조건화문맥과 새로운 부호를 선택한다. 이진 영상에 적합한 대역분할 방법과 산술부호기를 선택하여, 대역분할의 장점과 우수한 압축 성능을 달성할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.209-214
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• 2010

This paper proposes an algorithm of segmentation and title detection for document image. The automated title detection method that we have developed is composed of two phases, segmentation and title area detection. In the first phase, we extract and segment the document image. To perform this operation, the binary map is segmented by combination of morphological operation and CCA(connected component algorithm). The first phase provides segmented regions that would be detected as title area for the second stage. Candidate title areas are detected using geometric information, then we can extract the title region that is performed by removing non-title regions. After classification step that removes non-text regions, projection is performed to detect a title region. From the fact that usually the largest font is used for the title in the document, horizontal projection is performed within text areas. In this paper, we proposed a method of segmentation and title detection for various forms of document images using geometric features and projection profile analysis. The proposed system is expected to have various applications, such as document title recognition, multimedia data searching, real-time image processing and so on.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.215-220
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new texture-based page segmentation and classification method in which table region, background region, image region and text region in a given document image are automatically identified. The proposed method for document images consists of two stages, document segmentation and contents classification. In the first stage, we segment the document image, and then, we classify contents of document in the second stage. The proposed classification method is based on a texture analysis. Each contents in the document are considered as regions with different textures. Thus the problem of classification contents of document can be posed as a texture segmentation and analysis problem. Two-dimensional Gabor filters are used to extract texture features for each of these regions. Our method does not assume any a priori knowledge about content or language of the document. As we can see experiment results, our method gives good performance in document segmentation and contents classification. The proposed system is expected to apply such as multimedia data searching, real-time image processing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.424-426
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• 2001

신문, 잡지, 공문서, 영수증 등의 문서로부터 필요한 정보를 자동화하여 처리할 수 있는 문서영상 이해 시스템의 구현에 있어서 문서영상에 존재하는 문자를 추출하는 연구는 문자 인식의 전처리 단계로서 매우 중요한 의미를 지니고 있다. 하지만 현 시점에서 문서 자체가 가지는 다양한 형태 및 배경 등에 의하여 범용화되고 일반화된 방법을 찾기란 매우 어려운 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 특히 배경이 선이나 도표 등으로 이루어진 문서 영상에서 Hough Transform을 사용하여 기울어짐을 보정하고 문자들이 선에 겹친 부분을 효과적으로 보정하며 추출된 영역에 대한 분할 및 합병 과정을 거쳐 최종적으로 완전한 문자 영역을 추출하는 방법에 대하여 다룬다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.6 s.102
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• pp.697-702
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• 2005

The focused crawler is a topic-driven document-collecting crawler that was suggested as a promising alternative of maintaining up-to-date web document Indices in search engines. A major problem inherent in previous focused crawlers is the liability of missing highly relevant documents that are linked from off-topic documents. This problem mainly originated from the lack of consideration of structural information in a document. Traditional weighting method such as TFIDF employed in document classification can lead to this problem. In order to improve the performance of focused crawlers, this paper proposes a scheme of locality-based document segmentation to determine the relevance of a document to a specific topic. We segment a document into a set of sub-documents using contextual features around the hyperlinks. This information is used to determine whether the crawler would fetch the documents that are linked from hyperlinks in an off-topic document.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.2 s.105
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• pp.149-154
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• 2006

The main purpose of document summarization is to reduce the complexity of documents that are consisted of sub-themes. Also it is to create summarization which includes the sub-themes. This paper proposes a summarization system which could extract any salient sentences in accordance with sub-themes by using graph division. A document can be represented in graphs by using chosen representative terms through term relativity analysis based on co-occurrence information. This graph, then, is subdivided to represent sub-themes through connected information. The divided graphs are types of sentence clustering which shows a close relationship. When salient sentences are extracted from the divided graphs, summarization consisted of core elements of sentences from the sub-themes can be produced. As a result, the summarization quality will be improved.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.710-720
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• 2004

As XML documents have much richer information than plain texts, we can perform very elaborated, fine-grained search which was difficult in past years. However, as the cost of finer grained element level search is very high, the processing overhead has become a new challenge. We propose an inverted index structure called PIX, which reduces the number of elements processed by partitioning elements according to their match potentiality. We choose a base level and partition elements according to whether they have possibility of having a common ancestor higher than the level. We also propose partition merging technique by which we can get same results as unpartitioned case. Our experimental results show that the index partitioning strategy can reduce processing time considerably.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.2 s.105
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• pp.89-96
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose two approaches for the character segmentation on Korean document images. One is an improved version of a projection profile-based algorithm. It involves estimating the number of characters, obtaining the split points and then searching for each character's boundary, and selecting the best segmentation result. The other is developed for low quality document images where adjacent characters are connected. In this case, parts of the projection profile are cut to resolve the connection between the characters. This is called ${\alpha}$-cut. Afterwards, the revised former segmentation procedure is conducted. The two approaches have been tested with 43,572 low-quality Korean word images punted in various font styles. The segmentation accuracies of the former and the latter are 91.81% and 99.57%, respectively. This result shows that the proposed algorithm using a ${\alpha}$-cut is effective for low-quality Korean document images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.482-484
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 매개변수 없이 입력 문서 영상을 최대 동질 영역들로 분할한 다음, 각 동질 영역을 텍스트, 그림, 표 그리고 선으로 자동 분류하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 다단계 분석과 하향식 접근 방법을 사용하기 위하여 문서 영상을 피라미드 구조로 계층화하였으며, 어떤 영역을 분할할 지의 여부를 결정하기 위하여 그 영역의 주기성을 이용하여 판단하였다. 이러한 주기성 정보를 이용함으로써, 어떠한 매개변수 없이도 활자체 크기와 행간에 무관하게 텍스트 영역을 정확히 분석할 수 있었으며, 피라미드 구조를 만드는데 걸리는 시간이 질감 분석 접근방법보다 빠른 방법으로 설계되었다. Washington 대학의 문서 영상 데이터베이스를 이용한 실험 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 방법들보다 더 정확하게 문서 영상을 분할 및 분류할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.