• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.15-23
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• 2016

This paper proposes an effective algorithm of Korean license plate recognition. By applying Haar-like feature and Canny edge detection on a captured vehicle image, it is possible to find a connected rectangular, which is a strong candidate for license plate. The color information of license plate separates plates into white and green. Then, OTSU binary image processing and foreground neighbor pixel propagation algorithm CLNF will be applied to each license plates to reduce noise except numbers and letters. Finally, through labeling, numbers and letters will be extracted from the license plate. Letter and number regions, separated from the plate, pass through mesh method and thinning process for extracting feature vectors by X-Y projection method. The extracted feature vectors are classified using neural networks trained by backpropagation algorithm to execute final recognition process. The experiment results show that the proposed license plate recognition algorithm works effectively.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.1121-1130
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• 2004

This paper proposes a method for line and word segmentation for machine-printed text blocks. To separate a text region into the unit of lines, it analyses the horizontal projection profile and performs a recursive projection profile cut method. In the word segmentation, between-word gaps are identified by a hierarchical clustering method after finding gaps in the text line by using a connected component analysis. In addition, a special symbol detection technique is applied to find two types of special symbols tying between words using their morphologic features. An experiment with 84 text regions from English and Korean documents shows that the proposed method achieves 99.92% accuracy of word segmentation, while a commercial OCR software named Armi 6.0 Pro$^{TM}$ has 97.58% accuracy.y.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.4 s.100
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• pp.369-378
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• 2005

Document image is segmented and classified into text, picture, or table by a document layout analysis, and the words in table regions are significant for keyword spotting because they are more meaningful than the words in other regions. This paper proposes a method to extract words from table regions in document images. As word extraction from table regions is practically regarded extracting words from cell regions composing the table, it is necessary to extract the cell correctly. In the cell extraction module, table frame is extracted first by analyzing connected components, and then the intersection points are extracted from the table frame. We modify the false intersections using the correlation between the neighboring intersections, and extract the cells using the information of intersections. Text regions in the individual cells are located by using the connected components information that was obtained during the cell extraction module, and they are segmented into text lines by using projection profiles. Finally we divide the segmented lines into words using gap clustering and special symbol detection. The experiment performed on In table images that are extracted from Korean documents, and shows $99.16\%$ accuracy of word extraction.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.115-126
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• 2012

The artificial captions appearing in videos include information that relates to the videos. In order to obtain the information carried by captions, many methods for caption extraction from videos have been studied. Most traditional methods of detecting caption region have used one frame. However video include not only spatial information but also temporal information. So we propose a method of detection caption region using temporal and spatial information. First, we make improved Text-Appearance-Map and detect continuous candidate regions through matching between candidate-regions. Second, we detect disappearing captions using disappearance test in candidate regions. In case of captions disappear, the caption regions are decided by a merging process which use temporal and spatial information. Final, we decide final caption regions through ANNs using edge direction histograms for verification. Our proposed method was experienced on many kinds of captions with a variety of sizes, shapes, positions and the experiment result was evaluated through Recall and Precision.

• 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.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.391-401
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• 2022

As deep learning-based object detection and recognition research have been developed recently, the scope of application to industry and real life is expanding. But deep learning-based systems in the construction system are still much less studied. Calculating materials in the construction system is still manual, so it is a reality that transactions of wrong volumn calculation are generated due to a lot of time required and difficulty in accurate accumulation. A fast and accurate automatic drawing recognition system is required to solve this problem. Therefore, we propose an AI-based automatic drawing recognition accumulation system that detects and recognizes steel materials in construction drawings. To accurately detect steel materials in construction drawings, we propose data augmentation techniques and spatial attention modules for improving small object detection performance based on YOLOv4. The detected steel material area is recognized by text, and the number of steel materials is integrated based on the predicted characters. Experimental results show that the proposed method increases the accuracy and precision by 1.8% and 16%, respectively, compared with the conventional YOLOv4. As for the proposed method, Precision performance was 0.938. The recall was 1. Average Precision AP_0.5 was 99.4% and AP_0.5:0.95 was 67%. Accuracy for character recognition obtained 99.9.% by configuring and learning a suitable dataset that contains fonts used in construction drawings compared to the 75.6% using the existing dataset. The average time required per image was 0.013 seconds in the detection, 0.65 seconds in character recognition, and 0.16 seconds in the accumulation, resulting in 0.84 seconds.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.79-85
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• 2020

Today, to block spam texts on smartphone, a simple string comparison between text messages and spam keywords or a blocking spam phone numbers is used. As results, spam text is sent in a gradually hanged way to prevent if from being automatically blocked. In particular, for words included in spam keywords, spam texts are sent to abnormal words using special characters, Chinese characters, and whitespace to prevent them from being detected by simple string match. There is a limit that traditional spam filtering methods can't block these spam texts well. Therefore, new technologies are needed to respond to changing spam text messages. In this paper, we propose a knowledge graph-based new words detection mechanism that can detect new words frequently used in spam texts and respond to changing spam texts. Also, we show experimental results of the performance when detected Korean new words are applied to the Naive Bayes algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.29-35
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• 2021

License plate recognition plays a key role in intelligent transportation systems. Therefore, it is a very important process to efficiently detect the number and character areas. In this paper, we propose a method to effectively detect license plate number area by applying deep learning and semantic image segmentation algorithm. The proposed method is an algorithm that detects number and text areas directly from the license plate without preprocessing such as pixel projection. The license plate image was acquired from a fixed camera installed on the road, and was used in various real situations taking into account both weather and lighting changes. The input images was normalized to reduce the color change, and the deep learning neural networks used in the experiment were Vgg16, Vgg19, ResNet18, and ResNet50. To examine the performance of the proposed method, we experimented with 500 license plate images. 300 sheets were used for learning and 200 sheets were used for testing. As a result of computer simulation, it was the best when using ResNet50, and 95.77% accuracy was obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.391-393
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• 2012

반복적인 문자열에 대한 연구는 압축알고리즘이나 모티프검출, 염기서열 분석 등 다양한 분야와 관련되어 연구되고 있다. 반복문자열 연구 중에서도 어느 정도의 불일치를 허용하는 근사반복문자열 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 길이가 각각 m과 n인 문자열 p와 x가 주어졌을 때, p의 x에 대한 거리합기반 근사주기에 대해 정의하고 최소 주기거리를 찾는 문제를 제시한다. 그리고 가중편집거리를 사용했을 때 O($mn^2$)시간, 편집거리를 사용했을 때 O(mn)시간, 해밍거리를 사용했을 때 O(n)시간에 문제를 해결하는 알고리즘을 제시한다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.3086-3097
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 손으로 자유스럽게 그린 서식 문서에서 문자 영역을 분리하고, 이 중 선 성분을 벡터화하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 우선 이진화 및 세선화 과정에서의 데이터 손실을 방지하기 위해 스캔한 영상에 DRC 알고리즘을 적용한다. 그리고 영상의 기울어짐을 교정하기 위해 세선화된 영상에 허프 변환을 적용하여 기울어짐을 추정하고 교정한 다음, 서식의 구조를 이루는 선 성분을 추출해 낸다. 그리고 문자 영역은 연결 요소 분석법에 의해 문자 영역을 나타내는 데이터로 변환되며, 추출된 선 성분을 정렬, 합병 및 교정처리를 통해 벡터화 된다. 제안된 방법의 실효성을 입증하기 위해 각각 25명의 다른 사람이 필기구에 제한을 두지 않고 하나는 자를 사용하여 작성하고 다른 하나는 자를 사용하지 않고 작성한 서식에 대해 실험한 결과 전체 750개의 벡터 집합 중에서 전처리를 하지 않은 경우에는 666개, 전처리를 한 경우에는 746개의 서식 벡터 검출에 성공하여 그 유효성을 확인할 수 있었다.