• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.9-16
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• 2006

This Paper proposes an adaptive error diffusioThis paper proposes an adaptive error diffusion algorithm for text enhancement followed by an efficient text segmentation that uses the maximum gradient difference (MGD). The gradients are calculated along with scan lines, and the MGD values are filled within a local window to merge the potential text segments. Isolated segments are then eliminated in the non-text region filtering process. After the left segmentation, a conventional error diffusion method is applied to the background, while the edge enhancement error diffusion is used for the text. Since it is inevitable that visually objectionable artifacts are generated when using two different halftoning algorithms, the gradual dilation is proposed to minimize the boundary artifacts in the segmented text blocks before halftoning. Sharpening based on the gradually dilated text region (GDTR) prevents the printing of successive dots around the text region boundaries. The error diffusion algorithm with edge enhancement is extended to halftone color images to sharpen the tort regions. The proposed adaptive error diffusion algorithm involves color halftoning that controls the amount of edge enhancement using a general error filter. The multiplicative edge enhancement parameters are selected based on the amount of edge sharpening and color difference. Plus, the additional error factor is introduced to reduce the dot elimination artifact generated by the edge enhancement error diffusion. By using the proposed algorithm, the text of a scanned image is sharper than that with a conventional error diffusion without changing background.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.61-68
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a method of character detection by analyzing image enhancement and character type to detect characters in natural images that can be acquired in everyday life. The proposed method emphasizes the boundaries of the object part using the unsharp mask in order to improve the detection rate of the area to be recognized as a character in a natural image. By using the boundary of the enhanced object, the character candidate region of the image is detected using Maximal Stable Extermal Regions (MSER). In order to detect the region to be judged as a real character in the detected character candidate region, the shape of each region is analyzed and the non-character region other than the region having the character characteristic is removed to increase the detection rate of the actual character region. In order to compare the objective test of this paper, we compare the detection rate and the accuracy of the character region with the existing methods. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the detection rate and accuracy of the character region over the existing character detection method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.67-68
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• 2021

기존 객체탐지는 경계 상자 회귀방식을 적용하였지만, 문자는 왜곡과 변형이 심한 특성을 가진 객체로 U-net 구조의 이미지 분할 방식을 사용하는 경우가 많다. 따라서 최근 문자 탐지는 통계적 모델에 비해 높은 정확도를 보이는 심층 신경망 기반의 모델 연구가 많이 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이미지 분할을 통한 양방향 특징 결합 기법을 사용한 문자 탐지 모델을 제안한다. 이미지 분할 방식은 메모리의 효율이 떨어지기 때문에 이를 극복하고자 특징 추출 단계에서 경량화된 네트워크를 적용하였다. 또한, 객체 탐지에서 큰 성과를 보인 양방향 특징 결합 모듈을 U-net 구조에 추가하여 추출된 특징이 효과적으로 결합 되는 결과를 얻었다. 제안하는 모델의 문자 탐지 성능은 합성 문자 데이터셋을 이용한 실험을 통해 기존의 U-net 구조의 이미지 분할 방식보다 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.131-136
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• 2007

This paper proposes a new approach to eliminate the reflectance component for the detection of text in color images. Color images, printed by color printing technology, normally have an illumination component as well as a reflectance component. It is well known that a reflectance component usually obstructs the task of detecting and recognizing objects like texts in the scene, since it blurs out an overall image. We have developed an approach that efficiently removes reflectance components while preserving illumination components. We decided whether an input image hits Normal or Polarized for determining the light environment, using the histogram which consisted of a red component. We were able to go ahead through the ability to extract by reducing the blur phenomenon of text by light because reflection component by an illumination change and removed it and extracted text. The experimental results have shown a superior performance even when an image has a complex background. Text detection and recognition performance is influenced by changing the illumination condition. Our method is robust to the images with different illumination conditions.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.135-144
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• 2003

A method for the automatic segmentation of speech signals is described. The method is dedicated to the construction of a large database for a Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system. The main issue of the work involves the refinement of an initial estimation of phone boundaries which are provided by an alignment, based on a Hidden Market Model(HMM). Multi-layer perceptron (MLP) was used as a phone boundary detector. To increase the performance of segmentation, a technique which individually trains an MLP according to phonetic transition is proposed. The optimum partitioning of the entire phonetic transition space is constructed from the standpoint of minimizing the overall deviation from hand labelling positions. With single speaker stimuli, the experimental results showed that more than 95% of all phone boundaries have a boundary deviation from the reference position smaller than 20 ms, and the refinement of the boundaries reduces the root mean square error by about 25%.

• KSCI Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.197-201
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• 2007

비디오 분할은 샷 경계 검출이라고도 하는데, 비디오를 계층적이고 구조적인 형태로 표현하기 위하여 영상, 문자, 오디오와 같은 매체 속에 포함되어 있는 내용들을 특징별로 분석하여 계층별로 분류하는 작업을 말한다. 본 논문에서는 카메라와 객체의 모션에 보다 강건하고 보다 정확한 결과를 산출하여 충분한 공간 정보를 가지는 지역적 $X^2$-히스토그램 비교 방법을 이용하여 샷 경계를 검출한다. 또한 영상처리에서 영상의 명암 값 향상을 위하여 사용되는 로그함수와 상수를 변형하여 차이 값에 적용하는 정규화 방법을 제시한다. 그리고 샷 경계 검출 알고리즘을 제시하여 일반적인 샷과 갑작스런 샷의 특징을 기반으로 검출한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.361-364
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• 2011

본 논문의 목표는 크게 두 가지이다. 하나는 2010년에 개발한 메신저 자동번역 시스템을 소개하는 것이고, 다른 하나는 메신저 대화체 문장을 더욱 고품질로 번역하기 위한 구조화된 번역 메모리(Structured Translation Memory)를 소개하는 것이다. 구조화된 번역 메모리는 기존의 문자열 기반의 번역 메모리와 자동 번역 시스템의 경계를 허무는 개념으로 구조를 표현하는 계층적 번역 메모리들로 구성된다. 구조화된 번역 메모리는 문자열 번역 메모리, 원형 어휘로 구성된 번역 메모리, 고유명사가 청킹된 번역 메모리, 날짜/숫자가 청킹된 번역 메모리, 기본명사구가 청킹된 번역 메모리, 문장 패턴 번역 메모리로 단계적으로 구성된다. 구조화된 번역 메모리를 적용하기 전의 2010년의 영한 메신저 자동 번역 시스템의 번역률이 81.67%였던 반면에, 구조화된 번역 메모리를 적용하려는 2011년의 영한 메신저 자동 번역 시스템의 시물레이션 번역률은 85.25%인 것으로 평가되었다. 따라서 구조화된 번역 메모리를 적용하였을 때는 기존의 번역률보다 3.58% 향상할 것으로 예측된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.379-387
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• 2001

We proposed an enhanced extraction method of vehicle plate, in which both the brightness variation of gray and the Hue value of HSI color model were used. For the extraction of the vehicle plate from a vehicle image, first of all, candidate regions for the vehicle plate were extracted from the image by using the property of brightness variation of the image. A real place region was determined among candidate regions by the density of pixels with the Hue value of green and white. For- extracting the feature area containing characters from the extracted vehicle plate, we used the histogram-based approach of individual characters. And we proposed and applied for the recognition of characters the enhanced ART2 algorithm which support the dynamical establishment of the vigilance threshold with the genera]iced union operator of Yager. In addition, we propose an enhanced SOSL algorithm which is integrated both enhanced ART2 and supervised learning methods. The performance evaluation was performed using 100's real vehicle images and the evaluation results demonstrated that the extraction rates of tole proposed extraction method were improved, compared with that of previous methods based un brightness variation, RGB and HSI individually . Furthermore, the recognition rates of the proposed algorithms were improved much more than that of the conventional ART2 and BP algorithms.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.465-482
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• 1997

In this paper, we have studied on cinstructing code-recognition shstem by neural network according to a image process taking the DOT classification code stamped on tire surface.It happened to a few problems that characters distorted in edge by diffused reflection and two adjacent characters take the same label,even very sen- sitive to illumination ofr recognition the stamped them on tire.Thus,this paper would propose the algorithm for tire code under being cinscious of these properties and prove the algorithm drrciency with a simulation.Also,we have suggerted the MCBP network composing of multi-linked recognizers of dffcient identify the DOT code being tire classification code.The MCBP network extracts the projection balue for classifying each character's rdgion after taking out the prjection of each chracter's region on X,Y axis,processes each chracters by taking 7$\times$8 normalization.We have improved error rate 3% through the MCBP network and post-process comparing the DOT code Database. This approach has a accomplished that learming time get's improvenent at 60% and recognition rate has become to 95% from 90% than BckPropagation with including post- processing it has attained greate rates of entire of tire recoggnition at 98%.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.35-43
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• 2001

Many speech recognition systems have used pronunciation lexicon with possible multiple phonetic transcriptions for each word. The pronunciation lexicon is of often manually created. This process requires a lot of time and efforts, and furthermore, it is very difficult to maintain consistency of lexicon. To handle these problems, we present a model based on morphophon-ological analysis for automatically generating Korean pronunciation variants. By analyzing phonological variations frequently found in spoken Korean, we have derived about 700 phonemic contexts that would trigger the multilevel application of the corresponding phonological process, which consists of phonemic and allophonic rules. In generating pronunciation variants, morphological analysis is preceded to handle variations of phonological words. According to the morphological category, a set of tables reflecting phonemic context is looked up to generate pronunciation variants. Our experiments show that the proposed model produces mostly correct pronunciation variants of phonological words. Then we estimated how useful the pronunciation lexicon and training phonetic transcription using this proposed systems.