• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.10
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• pp.904-911
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an effective method for the distinction between machine-printed and handwritten Korean address images. It is important to know whether an input image is handwritten or machine-printed, because methods for handwritten image are quite different from those of machine-printed image in such applications as address reading, form processing, FAX routing, and so on. Our method consists of three blocks: valid connected components grouping, feature extraction, and classification. Features related to width and position of groups of valid connected components are used for the classification based on a neural network. The experiment done with live Korean address images has demonstrated the superiority of the proposed method. The correct classification rate for 3,147 testing images was about 98.85%.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.8-19
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose an efficient method for locating destination address block on both of machine-Printed and handwritten Korean mail piece images. The proposed method extracts connected components from the binary mail piece image, generates text lines by merging them, and then groups the text fines into nine clusters. The destination address block is determined by selecting some clusters. Considering the geometric characteristics of address information on Korean mail piece, we split a mail piece image into nine areas with an equal size. The nine clusters are initialized with the center coordinate of each area. A modified Manhattan distance function is used to compute the distance between text lines and clusters. We modified the distance function on which the aspect ratio of mail piece could be reflected. The experiment done with live Korean mail piece images has demonstrated the superiority of the Proposed method. The success rate for 1, 988 testing images was about 93.56%.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.195-200
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 글자 구분선 없이 자유로이 쓰여진 필기체 한글의 인식 방안을 보인다. 즐단위의 한글 입력 영상에서 글자의 골격선을 추출하는 새로운 방법과 골격선들 간의 접촉점과 끝점을 그래프의 노드로 표현하고, 획은 그래프의 가지로 표현하는 방안을 보인다. 한글의 글자 구성 원리는 모음을 중심으로 모아쓰므로, 그래프로 표현된 즐단위의 한글에서 모음의 시작위치 및 속성을 가지는 로드로부터 한글의 모음을 가장 먼저 유도하여 인식하고, 우측 글자 및 자소끼리의 접촉을 분리하여 초성 자음 및 종성 자음을 인식하여, 좌에서 우의 방향으로 한 문자씩 인식해 나간다. 본 논문에서의 자유로이 필기된 한글의 인식 실험은 우리나라의 주소 50개를 서로 다른 25인이 필기한 영상 데이터를 사용하였고 한글 문자의 인식율은 89%이다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.813-821
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• 2001

While recognition of isolated units of writing, such as a character or a word, has been extensively studied, emphasis on the segmentation itself has been lacking. In this paper we propose an active segmentation method for handwritten Hangul address strings based on the Run-length code. A slant correction algorithm, which is considered as an important preprocessing step for the segmentation, is presented. Three fundamental candidate estimation functions are introduced to detect the clues on touching points, and the classification of touching types is attempted depending on the structural peculiarity of Hangul. Our experiments show segmentation performance of 88.2% on touching characters with minimal over-segmentation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.31-34
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• 2003

In this paper, we describe a method for separating text lines in handwritten Korean address images. The most remarkable feature of the proposed method is to use a modified projection technique. named a partial projection technique. A projection based text line separation method which projects the whole address image in horizontal direction to find split points for text line separation cannot avoid failing separation in case of images with a little skew or overlap between vertically neighboring text lines. To overcome this problem, we have introduced a partial projection technique which splits an address image into a few partial address images to be equal width and then project them each horizontally. The experiment done with 989 handwritten Korean address images extracted from live mails shows the superiority of the proposed method. The correct text-line separation rate fir the testing images was about 91.5％.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.1358-1367
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• 1993

In this paper, OMR system based on image processing is developed which improve the performance of conventional OMR system based on line-scan method. Based on this OMR system, real-time OCR system which recognizes alphanumerics is also developed. We propose the OMCR system which recognize the mark and numerals at the same time. Besides, we improve the input system using constrained 7-segment type handwritten numeral instead of mark to solve the problem caused by miswriting the mark. In summary, we verified the reai-time recognition performance of developed OMCR system using application form for admission, answer sheet for college entrance examination and receipt sheet.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.1_2
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• pp.93-102
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• 2003

A slant correction method for handwritten Korean strings based on analysis of stroke distribution, which effectively reflects structural properties of Korean characters, is presented in this paper. The method aims to deal with typical problems which have been frequently observed in slant correction of handwritten Korean strings with conventional approaches developed for English/European languages. Extracted strokes from a line of text image are classified into two clusters by applying the K-means clustering. Gaussian modeling is applied to each of the clusters and the slant angle is estimated from the model which represents the vertical strokes. Experimental results support the effectiveness of the proposed method. For the performance comparison 1,300 handwritten address string images were used, and the results show that the proposed method has more superior performance than other conventional approaches.