• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.7-16
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• 2015

A segmentation process extracts an interesting area of barcode in an image and gives a crucial impart on the performance of barcode verifier. Previous segmentation methods occurs some issues as follows. First, it is very hard to determine a threshold of length in Hough Line transform because it is sensitive. Second, Morphology transform delays the process when you conduct dilation and erosion operations during the image extraction. Therefore, we proposes a novel Converged Harris Corner detection-based segmentation method to detect an interesting area of barcode in Data Matrix. In order to evaluate the performance of proposed method, we conduct experiments by a dataset of barcode in accordance with size and location in an image. In result, our method solves the problems of delay and surrounding environments, threshold setting, and extracts the barcode area 100% from test images.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.309-331
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• 2010

In this study, the characteristics and types of 1D, 2D barcodes were examined. It is necessary to provide mobile services by making full use of the advantages of the technologies, such as 1D, 2D barcodes, and RFID, and by complementing the disadvantages of them mutually in Korea. Especially, in a mobile environment where the spread of smart phones and mobile networks are expanding, barcodes and RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) were analyzed as a very useful information media which is able to connect offline analogue media and online digital media. In addition, library automation systems and the cases of mobile student ID services using barcodes and RFID in Korean libraries were analyzed. The cases of mobile services using barcodes in foreign countries were also analyzed. With these cases, we propose a method to empower mobile services using barcodes in Korean libraries.

• Weed & Turfgrass Science
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.225-229
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• 2015

Echinochloa colona is one of the most problematic weeds in the paddy fields of the world. In recent years, this species is likely to be introduced in Korea due to global warming, the expansion of international trade including agricultural products, and increasing tourists. We tried to identify the species from Korean Echinochloa crus-galli and E. oryzicola in order to establish the control measures in case of the initial influx. For this study, Echinochloa colona collected from the National Plant Germplasm System, USA were examined and E. crus-galli and E. oryzicola were collected in Korea. It is, however, very difficult to identify for Echinochloa species using morphological characters because of numerous interspecific and intraspecific types found in nature. Thus, we barcoded the species using rbcL, matK, and ITS. All three markers identified E. colona very well from the others. ITS alone may be enough as a DNA barcode for E. colona identification, when considering cost and effectiveness. The barcode sequences were deposited to the National Center for Biotechnology Information database for public use.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.159-175
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• 2015

The two-dimensional QR code has advantages such as directional nature, enough data storage capacity, ability of error correction, and ability of data restoration. There are two major issues like speed and correctiveness of recognition in the two-dimensional QR code. Therefore, this paper proposes a morphology-based algorithm of detecting the interest region of a barcode. Our research contents can be summarized as follows. First, the interest region of a barcode image was detected by close operations in morphology. Second, after that, the boundary of the barcode are detected by intersecting four cross line outside in a code. Three, the projected image is then rectified into a two-dimensional barcode in a square shape by the reverse-perspective transform. In result, it shows that our detection and recognition rates for the barcode image is also 97.20% and 94.80%, respectively and that outperforms than previous methods in various illumination and distorted image environments.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1053-1059
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• 2012

Barcode labels are being widely used for identifying products since they are cheap and easy to use. As the barcode labels are massively produced by seal printing, some labels have defects such as poor printing quality or data mismatch between barcode and the text. Barcode read errors and business errors caused by defected barcodes result in delay in logistics and increased processing costs. In this paper, we propose an on-line barcode verification system that uses image processing technique to verify the quality of labels at the production stage. The proposed system captures label images through the vision camera and then checks the print quality and verifies the combination of barcodes and texts in a label. If any defected label is found, the proposed system gives alarm signals and marks the defected labels so that they are removed at early stage of the production.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.2C
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• pp.168-172
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• 2012

An UHF RFID tag is designed and fabricated using the national code in a bar-code with conductive ink. The bar-code sample was taken from a general bar-code from a general box. The conductivity of the conductive ink was measured, and the measured conductivity was used for the simulation tool to design the printed bar-code shape tag antenna. The tag antenna was fabricated using T-matching to reduce the size of the tag, and the bar-code tag antenna is recognized by both a general bar-code reader and an UHF RFID reader. The input reflection coefficient characteristic, the reading range pattern and the reading rate of the tag antenna are measured.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.763-764
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• 2017

The use of barcodes in mobile phones has become generalized, and barcodes are widely used in security-sensitive applications, including mobile payment and personal identification. Generally, images photographed by a mobile phone generate geometric distortion due to the shooting angle, resulting in low quality images. Embedding watermark for low quality images makes it difficult to satisfy transparency. To solve such problem, this paper focuses on the technique of embedding barcode images in the image taken by mobile phone and proposes barcode watermarking for protecting mobile-based ownership. The barcode watermark embedded in the image can be used to prove ownership since it is readable by a machine such as illegal copy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.1103-1106
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• 2002

현재, 컨베이어 벨트시스템에 소포를 직재하고, 우편번호를 운영자가 입력하여 구분한다. 구분된 소포 중에서 기록관리 대상의 경우에는 바코드를 판독하여 처리하고 있다. 이에 따라, 본 논문에서는 2m/sec 이내로 이송되는 소포를 라인 CCD(Charged Coupled Device) 카메라에 의해 이미지 획득한 후, 바코드 ROI 추출 방법을 위해 $32{\times}32$ 미세블룩 검사 방법을 적용하였다. ROI 추출 절차는 최대-최소 차이값과 동적 인계값 기준으로 바탕면 제거, 문자열과 바코드 영역을 판단하기 위한 대각선(diagonal) 검사방법 적용, 바코드 영역인지 검증하기 위해 수평으로 5 라인을 검사하고 에지의 수와 폭의 변화량 비교 등의 과정으로 수행하였다. 그리고 바코드 ROI 추출은 레이블링 과정에 의해 바코드 영역의 보정과 그룹크기 비교에 의한 ROI 영역의 구체화와 정보 해석을 위하여 ROI 외곽좌표 8개중에서 가장 간 중심축 라인으로 생성하는 방법 등을 적용하였다. ROI 추출과 중심축 시험결과에 의하면 $50{\sim}180msec$이내에 가능하게 되었다. 그리고, ROI 추출의 정확도는 99.994% 이상을 만족한다.

• Weed & Turfgrass Science
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.18-25
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• 2015

A universal DNA barcoding for agricultural noxious weeds is a powerful technique for species identification without morphological knowledge, by using short sections of DNA from a specific region of the genome. Two standard barcode markers, chloroplast rbcL and matK, and a supplementary nuclear ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region were used to examine the effectiveness of the markers for Pooideae barcoding using 163 individuals of 29 taxa across 16 genera of Korean Pooideae. The rbcL and ITS revealed a good level of amplification and sequencing success while matK did not. Barcode gaps were 78.6% for rbcL, 96.2% for matK, and 91.7% for ITS, respectively. Resolving powers were 89.3% for rbcL, 92.3% for matK, and 79.1% for ITS. The matK obtained the best both barcode gap and resolving power. However, it should be considered not to employ matK for Pooideae barcode because of low rate of PCR amplification and sequencing success. As a single DNA marker, rbcL and ITS were reasonable for Pooideae barcode. Barcode gap and resolving power were increased when ITS was incorporated into the rbcL. The barcode sequences were deposited to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database for public use.

• The monthly packaging world
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• s.152
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• pp.60-66
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• 2005

바코드는 상품제조업체 또는 판매원이 자사가 생산, 출하하는 상품의 포장을 디자인할 때 일정공간 바코드 인쇄위치를 포함하여 디자인하는 인쇄방법으로 현재 미국, 일본 등 선진국과 동구권을 포함하여 전세계 84여개국에서 이미 POS시스템을 도입∙활용하고 있다. 우리나라 교역상대국이 거의 포함되어 있기 때문에 국내업체에 대한 해외바이어들의 소스마킹요구가 빈번해지고 있다. 따라서 소스마킹을 하지 않은 경우 거래선 변경을 예고하는 사례도 많아지고 있다. POS시스템의 도입이 급증하고, 최근 POS시스템이 다양한 업태로 그 도입이 확산되면서 국내 유통업체에서도 납품업체에 대해 소스마킹을 요구하고 있고, 소스마킹이 안된 상품에 대한 추급을 기피하는 경향이 높아지고 있는 현재, 바코드와 그 종류에 대해 살펴보도록 한다.