• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.497-498
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• 2015

• 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 Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.153-156
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• 2000

동영상 정보는 영상정보뿐만 아니라 음성정보, 문자정보 및 각종 의미있는 정보들을 포함하고 있어서 기존의 검색방법으로는 사용자가 원하는 이미지를 찾는데 어려움이 따른다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 동영상 정보의 효율적인 활용을 위한 색인방법으로 칼라 임계값을 이용한 컷 검출 방법을 제안하였다. 이것은 frame 간의 유사도를 측정해서 이 값이 주어진 임계값보다 작을 경우, 장면의 전환이 일어나는 곳을 컷 지점으로 검출하는 것인데, 동영상의 장면에 따른 유사도가 다를 수 있기 때문에, 컷을 구성하는 프레임들간의 칼라 임계값에 변동을 주어 최적의 컷 검출율을 구하고자 했다. 초기의 칼라 임계값은 '80'을 사용했고, 이후 frame 의 유사도가 임계값보다 클 경우, 즉 장면전환이 일어나지 않았을 경우일정한 상수 값을 초기 임계값에서 감산토록 하였다. 이러한, 과정을 거쳐 추출된 frame을 가지고 원하는 이미지를 검색하게 되면 사용자의 노력 및 검색 시간이 단축되고, 동영상 정보의 관리가 용이해진다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.361-363
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• 2001

반도체 패키지의 마킹검사(marking inspection)를 위해서는 입력 영상으로부터 검사할 패키지의 정확만 위치 검출과 패키지 윗면에 나타난 제작사 로고, 문자, Pin1 딤플의 추출이 필수적이다. 본 연구는 마킹검사를 위한 선행 연구로 마킹검사를 수행할 때, 검사할 IC 패키지의 위치와 방향을 정확하게 검출하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있다. IC 패키지의 외곽을 구성하는 리드의 명도 값은 트레이의 명도 값과 큰 차이를 나타낸다. 그러나 IC 패키지의 방향을 나타내는 Pin1 딤플은 배경과 동일한 색상으로 다만 약간 오목하게 들어가서 명도 값의 차이가 미세하다. 이러한 두 가지 상이한 특징을 효과적으로 처리하기 위하여 적응적 다중 이진화 방법을 제시하였다. 76개의 명도 영상에 대한 실험 결과 제안된 이진화 방법은 매우 효과적이었으며, 이진화된 영상으로부터 IC 패키지의 정확한 위치 검출과 방향 확인이 가능하였다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.597-604
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• 2009

For the improvement of license plate recognition system, correct extraction of a license plate region as well as character recognition is important. In this paper, with the analysis and classification of the error patterns in the process of plate region extraction, we tried to improve the extraction of the region using HoG(histogram of gradient) features and Adaboost. The results show that the HoG feature is robust to the noise and various types of the plates, and also is very effective to extract the region failed before.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.1278-1290
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• 2008

This paper proposes a preprocessing method and a neural network based character recognizer to enhance the overall performance of the license plate recognition system. First, plate outlines are extracted by virtual line matching, and then the 4 vertexes are obtained by calculating intersecting points of extracted lines. By these vertexes, plate image is reconstructed as rectangle-shaped image by bilinear transform. Finally, the license plate is recognized by the neural network based classifier which had been trained using delta-bar-delta algorithm. Various license plate images were used in the experiments, and the proposed plate normalization enhanced the recognition performance up to 16 percent.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1221-1227
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• 2015

Edge detection is one of the important technologies to simplify images in the text, lane and object recognition implementation process, and various studies are actively carried out at home and abroad. Existing edge detection methods include a method to detect edge by applying directional gradient masks in spatial space, and a mathematical morphology-based edge detection method. These existing detection methods show insufficient edge detection results in excessively dark or bright images. In this regard, to complement these drawbacks, we proposed an algorithm using the Sobel and histogram equalization among the existing methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.218-225
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• 2007

This paper presents a technique to detect a document skew that often occurs during document scanning. To correct a skewed document is essential for automatic processing system including character segmentation, character recognition and so on. The proposed algorithm can detect a skew angle exactly by searching characters baselines that have slant information of the document within a candidated area. To reduce processing time, we resized the image small and then established a ROI (region of interest) by morphology operations and connected components analysis. We compared our method with the existing method based on morphology operations and proved correctness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm through experiments and analysis with various kind of document images.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.31-37
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• 2001

License plate recognition system for an exclusive bus-lane is made of 5 core parts which are vehicle detection, image acquisition individual character extraction, character recognition and data transmission. Among them, the accuracy of license plate extraction can bring effect significantly to the accuracy of a whole system recognition rate also the more exact extraction of license plate is required in various weather and environment conditions. Therefore in this paper we propose a plat extraction algorithm that makes pyramid structure to reduced the extraction processing time binarizes plate's template region using adaptive thresholding extracts candidate region containing plate, and verifies a final region using plate character distribution characteristics among the candidates. Experimenal results were exactly extracted the license plate region by using proposed method to the image obtained in an exclusive bus-lane with various weather and environment conditions.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1329-1338
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• 2021

There are rarely effective methods to help visually impaired people when they want to know the expiration date of products excepted to only Braille. In this study, we developed an expiration date notification system based on YOLO and OCR for visually impaired people. The handicapped people can automatically know the expiration date of a specific product by using our system without the help of a caregiver, fast and accurately. The proposed system is worked by four different steps: (1) identification of a target product by scanning its barcode; (2) segmentation of an image area with the expiration date using YOLO; (3) classification of the expiration date by OCR: (4) notification of the expiration date by TTS. Our system showed an average classification accuracy of about 86.00% when blindfolded subjects used the proposed system in real-time. This result validates that the proposed system can be potentially used for visually impaired people.