• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.541-543
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 선형적으로 기울어진 문서 영상의 기울기를 검출하기 위한 단순하면서도 효과적인 알고리즘을 제안한다. 문서 내의 인접한 두 행 사이에는 일정한 두께의 공백 행이 존재하며, 그 공백 행의 기울기는 실제 문서의 기울어진 정도를 반영한다는 사실에 기인한다. 먼저, 간단한 모폴로지 연산을 이용하여 문자행 영역과 공백행 영역을 분리한 후, 이를 일정 간격으로 수직 샘플링하여 수직선 상에 있는 모든 공백행의 중심점(행간점)을 찾는다. 전체 영상으로부터 동일한 공백 행상에 있는 임의의 두 행간점간에 계산된 기울기들의 분포를 보면 실제 문서의 기울기에서 최대 값을 가진다. 제안한 알고리즘을 다양한 형태의 가로쓰기 문서(검출 가능한 최대 기울기 : $\pm$45$^{\circ}$)에 적용하여 0.5$^{\circ}$의 오차범위 내에서 정확한 결과를 얻을 수 있음을 보인다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.754-757
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• 2016

기존 번호판 인식은 직접 특징 추출 알고리즘을 개발하여 완전 연결 신경망으로 특징을 분류하는 방법이 보편적이다. 본 연구는 전처리 과정에서 번호판 후보군 검출 및 세그먼테이션을 수행하고 특징 추출 없이 미리 학습된 심층 컨볼루션 신경망을 통해 문자를 분류하는 방법을 제안한다. 직접 수집한 2,900장의 번호판 데이터베이스를 이용하여 훈련 집합 및 검증 집합을 구성하였다. 훈련 집합과 검증 집합에 대해 실험한 결과 번호판 후보군 검출률은 97%를 얻을 수 있었고, 이에 대한 인식률은 95%를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.267-275
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• 2000

최근 전자상거래가 활성화되면서, 거래 인증서와 같은 온라인 증명서가 광범위하게 사용되고 있다. 그리고 증명서의 위/변조기술이 발전함에 따라서 온라인 거래에 사용되는 증명서의 인증과 위조/변조를 방지하는 기술이 필요하게 되었다. 본 연구는 증명서의 인증에 필요한 기술로서, 메시지 인증함수가 가지는 성질을 포함하고 있다. 본 연구에서 개발한 알고리즘은 증명서에 포함된 텍스트문서가 위조/변조되었을 경우 그 변동 상황을 알아내며, 부정적으로 위조/변조된 부분을 검출하며, 변동상황 검출과 함께 원 증명서의 문서를 복원할 수 있는 기술이다. 만일 이 증명서에 대하여 변동이 진행된 흔적이 발견될 경우, 증명서를 인증하지 않으며, 삽입한 텍스트 데이터를 추출하고 변동을 확인하는 것과 함께 필요한 정보를 복원한다. 본 논문의 시험결과에 근거하면 256$\times$256BMP file Format 이미지에 3만2천자 정도의 텍스트문서를 삽입할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.204-214
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• 2012

This paper proposes an image segmentation for a vision-based automated defect inspection system on surface image of TFT-LCD(Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display) panels. TFT-LCD images have non-uniform brightness, which is hard to finding defective regions. Although there are several methods or proposed algorithms, it is difficult to divide the defect with high reliability because of non-uniform properties in the image. Kamel and Zhao disclosed a method which based on logical stage algorithm for segmentation of graphics and character. This method is a one of the local segmentation method that has a advantage. It is that characters and graphics are well segmented in an image which has non-uniform property. As TFT-LCD panel image has a same property, so this paper proposes new algorithm to segment regions of defects based on Kamel and Zhao's algorithm. Our algorithm has an advantage that there are a few ghost objects around the defects. We had experiments to prove performance in real TFT-LCD panel images, and comparing with the FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) method which is used a bandpass filter.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.7 s.96
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• pp.813-820
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• 2004

This paper proposes a digital image watermarking which is robust to geometric distortions using an independent component analysis(ICA) of fixed-point(FP) algorithm based on secant method. The FP algorithm of secant method is applied for better performance in a separation time and rate, and ICA is applied to reject the prior knowledges for original image, key, and watermark such as locations and size, etc. The proposed method embeds the watermark into the spatial domain of original image The proposed watermarking technique has been applied to lena, key, and two watermarks(text and Gaussian noise) respectively. The simulation results show that the proposed method has higher speed and better rate for extracting the original images than the FP algorithm of Newton method. And the proposed method has a watermarking which is robust to geometric distortions such as resizing, rotation, and cropping. Especially, the watermark of images with Gaussian noise has better extraction performance than the watermark with text since Gaussian noise has lower correlation coefficient than the text to the original and key images. The watermarking of ICA doesn't require the prior knowledge for the original images.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.91-98
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• 2011

Road signs are part of the traffic facilities intended to guide drivers to their destinations in a safe and comfortable manner. Due to the creation of new routes, changes to the old routes, and the deterioration of road signs, road signs do require efforts to do ongoing field investigations and put the results in a database. The purpose of this study was to propose methodologies to do field investigations and build a database for road signs efficiently. For that purpose, a mobile mapping system was designed for field investigations. The designed mobile mapping system was comprised of three cameras to produce image information about road signs, GPS/IMU/DMI to obtain information about the position and attitude of a vehicle, and a laser scanner to generate information about the locations of road signs and routes. Also proposed in the study was a procedure to automatically detect the areas of road signs in the road signs images and recognize their characters.

• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.295-300
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• 2015

The precise determination of the activity for each radionuclide in environmental samples requires the self-absorption correction factor. In this research, we derived the self-absorption correction factor for three p-type high purity germanium detectors using the Monte Carlo code MCNPX. These detectors have different characteristics such as crystal diameter, height and size of the core. We compared the calculated full-energy peak efficiency with the experimental value using a standard sample with $1g/m^3$ density and verified the modeling. We simulated the dependency of the full-energy peak efficiency on the 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 1.0, 1.2 and $1.5g/m^3$ samples and obtained the corresponding self-absorption correction factor. The self-absorption correction factors calculated for the three detectors differ by less than 1% over most of the energy range and sample densities considered. This indicates that the self-absorption correction factors are independent of the crystal characteristics of HPGe detector.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.227-235
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• 2013

The quality of the part-of-speech (POS) annotation in a corpus plays an important role in developing POS taggers. There, however, are several kinds of errors in Korean POS-tagged corpora like Sejong Corpus. Such errors are likely to be various like annotation errors, spelling errors, insertion and/or deletion of unexpected characters. In this paper, we propose a method for detecting annotation errors using error patterns, and also develop a tool for effectively correcting them. Overall, based on the proposed method, we have hand-corrected annotation errors in Sejong POS Tagged Corpus using the developed tool. As the result, it is faster at least 9 times when compared without using any tools. Therefore we have observed that the proposed method is effective for correcting annotation errors in POS-tagged corpus.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.40-47
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• 2009

This paper proposes a method for vehicle license plate detection using mathematical morphology and symmetry. In general, the shape, color, size, and position of license plate are regulated by authorities for a better recognition by human. Among them, the relatively big intensity difference between the letter and the background region of the license plate and the symmetry about the plate are major discriminating factors for the detection. For the first, the opened image is subtracted from the closed image to intensify the region of plate using the rectangular structuring element which has the width of the distance between two characters. Second the subtraction image is average filtered with the mask size of the plate. Third, the column maximum graph of the average filtered image is acquired and the symmetry of the graph is measured at every position. Fourth, the peaks of the average filtered image are searched. Finally, the plate is assumed to be positioned around the one of local maxima nearest to the point of the highest symmetry. About 1,000 images taken by speed regulation camera are used for the experiment. The experimental result shows that the plate detection rate is about 93%.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.1_2
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• pp.31-39
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• 2003

It is often assumed that text regions in images are characterized by some distinctive or characteristic spatial frequencies. This feature is highly intuitive, and thus appealing as much. We propose a method of detecting horizontal texts in natural scene images. It is based on the use of two features that can be employed separately or in succession: the frequency of edge pixels across vertical and horizontal scan lines, and the fundamental frequency in the Fourier domain. We confirmed that the frequency features are language independent. Also addressed is the detection of quadrilaterals or approximate rectangles using Hough transform. Since texts that is meaningful to many viewers usually appear within rectangles with colors in high contrast to the background. Hence it is natural to assume the detection rectangles may be helpful for locating desired texts correctly in natural outdoor scene images.