• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.151-156
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• 2018

Because of its large differences in writing style, context-independency and high recognition accuracy requirement, free handwritten digital identification is still a very difficult problem. Analyzing the characteristic of handwritten digits, this paper proposes a new handwritten digital identification method based on combining structural features. Given a handwritten digit, a variety of structural features of the digit including end points, bifurcation points, horizontal lines and so on are identified automatically and robustly by a proposed extended structural features identification algorithm and a decision tree based on those structural features are constructed to support automatic recognition of the handwritten digit. Experimental result demonstrates that the proposed method is superior to other general methods in recognition rate and robustness.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.82-89
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• 2001

This paper presents recognition of unconstrained handwritten numeral strings using decision value generator, which is combined with both isolated digit identifier and recognizer designed with structural characteristics of digits. Numerical string recognition system is composed of three modules, which are pre-segmentation, segmentation and recognition. Pre-segmentation module classifies a numeral string into sub-images, which are isolated digit, touched digits or broken digit, using confidence value of decision value generator. Segmentation module segments touched digits using reliability value of decision value generator that will separate the leftmost digit from touched string of digits. Segmentation-based and segmentation-free methods have used for classification and segmentation, respectively. To evaluate proposed method, experiments have carried out with handwritten numeral strings of NIST SD19 and higher recognition performance than previous works has obtained with 96.7%.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.517-525
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose efficient total recognition system of handwritten and printed numerals for reducing the classification time. The proposed system consists of two-step neuroclassifier : Printed numerals classifier and handwritten numerals classifier. In the proposed scheme, the printed numerals classifier classifies the printed numerals rapidly with single MLP neural network by low-order feature vector and rejects handwritten numerals. The handwritten numerals classifier classifies the handwritten numerals which is rejected in printed numerals classifier with modularized cluster neural network by complex feature vector. In order to verify the performance of the proposed method,handwritten numerals database of NIST and printed numerals database which include various fonts are used in the experiments. In case of using the proposed classifier, the overall classification time was reduced by 49.1% - 65.5% in comparison of the existent handwritten classifier.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.661-663
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• 2002

필기체 숫자 인식을 위한 새로운 특징 추출방범을 숫자의 기하학적인 구조들을 이용하여 연구 제안하였다. 일반적으로 쓰이고 있는 특징점들의 몇가지 부류를 결정하여 추줄하였고, 분절 화소들을 이용한 특징 추출기는 사소한 부분들을 명확한 특징으로 탐지하여 추줄하게 된다. 신경망은 새로운 접근 가능성을 탐지하는 실험 인식기로 사용하였고, 이러한 방법들을 이용하여, 일반적인 특징점 추줄방법과 본 연구에서 제안하는 특징점 추출방법을 결합하게 되면 필기체 문자의 인식률이 단순히 일반적인 특징만을 활용하여 얻는 인식률 보다 훨씬 향상됨을 보여주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.1119-1122
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• 2005

This paper describes the implementation methods of the MLP (mulilayer perteptrons) recognizers for numerals and non-nummerals. The MLP has known to be a very efficient classifier to recognize handwritten numerals in terms of recognition accuracy, speed, and memory requirements. The MLP in the previous researches, however, focuses on the only numeral inputs and does not pay attention to non-numeral inputs with respect to recognition accuracy, rejection rates, and other characteristics. In this paper, we present some implementation methods of the MLP in the environments that numeral and non-numerals are mixed. The MLP had been developed by three methods, and investigated with three error types introduced. The experiments had been conducted on a total of about 63,000 numerals and non-numerals. The promising method to recognize numeral and non-numerals is described in terms of the three error types.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.986-991
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• 2002

This paper presents off-line handwritten numeral recognition method by using Eigen-Vectors. In this method, numeral features are extracted statistically by using Eigen-Vectors through KL transform and input numeral is recognized in the feature space by the nearest-neighbor classifier. In our feature extraction method, basis vectors which express best the property of each numeral type within the extensive database of sample numeral images are calculated, and the numeral features are obtained by using this basis vectors. Through the experiments with the unconstrained handwritten numeral database of Concordia University, we have achieved a recognition rate of 96.2%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.1607-1615
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• 2005

This Paper describes the implementation methods of MLP (mulilayer perceptrons) neural networks to recognize or reject handwritten numerals and non-nummerals. The MLP has known to be a very efficient classifier to recognize handwritten numerals in terms of recognition accuracy, speed, and memory requirements. In the previous researches, however, researchers have focused on the only numeral inputs and have not payed attention to the non-numeral inputs with respect to recognition accuracy, rejection rates, and other characteristics. In this paper, we present some implementation methods of the MLP in the environments that numeral and non-numerals are mixed. The MLPs have been developed by three methods, and investigated with three error types introduced. The experiments have been conducted on a total of 66,701 images of numerals and non-numerals. The promising method to recognize numerals and reject non-numerals has been described in terms of the three error types.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.595-597
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• 2003

오프라인 필기체 숫자 인식에서 다양한 변형을 잘 흡수 할 수 있는 효율적인 특징을 찾는 것은 중요한 일이며, 본 논문에서는 이를 위해 다양한 단일특징들을 구현 하였으며, 단일 특징만으로는 만족 할 만한 성능을 기대하기 어렵기 때문에 다양한 단일 특징을 복합특징으로 구성하였다. 또한 오프라인 필기체 숫자인식에서 좋은 성능을 발휘하는 것으로 알려진 신경회로망으로 학습을 하였으며, 인식의 성능을 개선시키기 위해 효과적인 특징을 조합하여 하나의 단일 신경회로망들을 구성하고 그것을 다시 복합신경회로망으로 구성하여 성능을 실험 함으로서 성능의 향상을 볼 수 있었고, 신경회로망에 더하여 성능을 개선시키기 위해 신경회로망을 보완 할 수 있는 다수결 투표 방법을 사용하였다. 본 논문에서는 신경회로망의 인식 결과를 비교 분석하여 최적의 특징을 찾아 낸 결과를 2차 다수결 투표를 사용하여 인식하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방식의 성능을 검증하기 위해서 Concorida 대학교의 CENPARIMI 숫자 데이터 베이스를 가지고 인식을 수행 하였으며. 그 결과 97.40%의 정인식률과 0.75%의 오인식률 그리고 1.85%의 거부률을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.14-22
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• 2001

Off-line handwritten numeral recognition is a very difficult task and hard to achieve high recognition results using a single feature and a single classifier, since handwritten numerals contain many pattern variations which mostly depend upon individual writing styles. In this paper, we propose handwritten numeral recognition system using hybrid features and combined classifier. To improve recognition rate, we select mutually helpful features -directional features, crossing point feature and mesh features- and make throe new hybrid feature sets by using these features. These hybrid feature sets hold the local and global characteristics of input numeral images. And we implement combined classifier by combining three neural network classifiers to achieve high recognition rate, where fuzzy integral is used for multiple network fusion. In order to verify the performance of the proposed recognition system, experiments with the unconstrained handwritten numeral database of Concordia University, Canada were performed. As a result, our method has produced 97.85% of the recognition rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.610-612
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• 2002

본 논문은 오프라인 필기체 숫자 인식을 위하여 SOG* 세선화와 방향 코드 생성만으로 전처리를 단순화하여 효율을 높이는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 본 실험의 객관적 검증을 위해 Concordia 대학교 등의 여러기관의 필기체 숫자 데이터베이스에 대하여 실험한 결과 98.85% 이상의 인식률을 나타내어 단순한 전처리로 높은 인식률을 얻음으로써 효율성이 높음을 알 수 있다.