• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.29-35
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• 2015

In order to identify scanned cartoon books which are illegally distributed, the copyright project granted from the Korea Copyright Commission (Project title: Identification and Copy Protection Technology of Scanned Text/Comic Books) secured basic solutions for scanned cartoon books. The purpose of this paper is to propose a performance evaluation standard with essential items required for developing technology to identify whether a comic book is illegally scanned and distributed. For this purpose, types of scanned comic books which are illegally distributed through webhard sites are analysed, the transformed factors are classified and major detail items of the factors are identified.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.266-267
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• 2014

최근 웹하드를 통하여 허가 받지 않고 불법적으로 생성된 디지털 콘텐츠에 대한 저작권 보호에 대한 문제가 대두되고 있다. 불법 만화 도서를 검색하고 식별하는 알고리즘 또한 만화 도서의 특성에 맞게 제작되어 만화 도서 이미지 간의 식별률을 높이고 있다. 특히 불법적으로 스캔된 만화 도서의 경우 식별을 위해 만화 도서 핑거프린트가 쓰이게 되는데, 스캔 과정에서 상하좌우가 정확히 맞지 않아 스캔본의 기하학적 특성이 만화의 원본과 달라지는 왜곡을 최대한 제거하여 만화 도서의 식별률을 높이고자 했다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.19-25
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• 2016

This study aims to develop sound ecosystem of scanned cartoons and books through the effective identification technology developed as a part of the project granted from the Korea Copyright Commission (Project title: Identification and Copy Protection Technology of Scanned Text/Comic Books). This study shows a model integrating the scanned book identification system with the existing system that identifies scanned cartoons. The model suggested in this study is expected to give a help in reducing the author's damages due to the indiscriminate illegal reproduction, which tends to expand with high quality scanners and editing softwares.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.35-41
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• 2015

In order to solve the problems that fingerprinting technologies and image identification technologies for digital music and videos identification scanned have not yet been enough to identify scanned cartoon books, the copyright project granted from the Korea Copyright Commission(Project title: Identification and Copy Protection Technology of Scanned Text/Comic Books) secured basic solutions for scanned cartoon books. The first result of the research project in 2013 was focused on the identification technology applied to abnormally scanned cartoon books. As subsequent research for the project, studies in the year of 2014 has been to provide solutions to identify cartoon books which abnormally scanned and occurred with transformations and distortions and solutions to protect the system from trials to devitalize functions of the identification system through various attacks. This paper is to propose a model for a system for identifying abnormally scanned cartoon books as a way of enhancing the identification rates for identifying abnormal bookscans and transformation attacks.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.199-208
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• 2014

In this paper, we represent a system of identification and feature search for scanned comics in consideration of their content characteristics. For creating the feature of the scanned comics, we utilize a method of hierarchical symmetry fingerprinting. Proposed identification and search system is designed to give online service provider, such as Webhard, an immediate identification result under conditions of huge volume of the scanned comics. In simulation part, we analyze the robustness of the identification of the fingerprint to image modification such as rotation and translation. Also, we represent a structure of database for fast matching in feature point database, and compare search performance between other existing searching methods such as full-search and most significant feature search.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.131-137
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• 2014

Although illegal reproduction of cartoon books are prevalent with rapid growth of webhard services and smartphone use, fingerprinting technology for product identification, as seen in music and videos, has not been developed yet. This leads to indiscriminate illegal reproduction of cartoon books, causing great amount of copyright damages from copyright infringement of the rightful owners. The copyright R&D project granted from the Korea Copyright Permission (Project Title: Identification and Copy Protection Technology of Bookscaned Text/Comic Books) has been carried out in order to develop technology to effectively identify illegal reproduction and distribution of scanned cartoon books. The developed technology will contribute to increase of royalty payments and robust ecosystem of cartoon book markets. The study is to propose an enhanced implementation model for identification of scanned cartoon books on the basis of hierarchical symmetric difference feature algorithms adopted from existing feature extraction algorithms for video.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.264-265
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• 2014

불법적으로 생성된 디지털 콘텐츠의 저작권의 보호를 위하여 콘텐츠 식별 작업이 필요하다. 스캔된 불법 만화 도서의 경우 콘텐츠 식별을 위하여 이를 위해 특별히 제작된 핑거프린트가 필요하다. 핑거프린트를 통한 저작물의 식별률을 높이기 위해서 는 스캔 만화 이미지의 전처리 과정이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 종이 만화도서가 스캐너를 통해 이미지로 전환되는 과정에서 스캐너에 의해 일어나는 광도 왜곡을 최소화하여 만화 도서의 식별률을 높이고자 하였다. 실험을 통해 약 27%의 식별율의 개선을 얻었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.379-387
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• 2015

In recent years, copyright violations from illegal copying and distribution of e-comic contents have become an important issue. Fingerprinting techniques have been emerged to provide a fast and reliable identification method of identifying e-comic contents. When illegally scanned or camera captured comic contents are distributed, they suffer from distortions. So the fingerprint differs from the original version. This paper presents a restoration framework for correcting geometric distortions in distorted comics to improve the comic content identification.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.50-51
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• 2013

스캔된 어문/만화 저작물은 종이책을 스캔하여 PDF 및 EPUB 형태의 전자책으로 변환되지만, 아무런 복제방지조치를 취하지 않아 불법복제의 위험성이 매우 높다. 또한 사적으로 복제된 저작물들도 아무런 저작권 보호기술도 취해지지 않은 상태로 웹하드 등을 통해 불법유통되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결할 수 있는 어문/만화 저작물 식별 및 복제 방지 시스템을 제안하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.4
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• pp.221-230
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• 2011

Digital comic images are one of popular contents on the Internet. Usually, they are scanned from comic books by digital scanners. Without post-processing, they may have different sizes, skews and margins other than contents at the boundary. To normalize the size of their contents without the skews and margins is an important step in comic image analysis and application such as content-based comic image retrieval system. In this paper, we propose a method to detect a box frame in comic images by extracting of line segments using the gradient Radon transform. The box frame in comic images is the maximum rectangle which consists of contents without margins. We use the detected box frame to normalize the size of comic images and to make them no skew. In addition, the proposed method is implemented by OpenCL to speed up the detection of the line segments. Experimental results show that our proposed method effectively detects the box frame in comic images.