• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.647-656
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 오프라인 무제약 필기 한글 단어를 인식하기 위한 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 단어 인식 시스템은 크게 다석가지 모듈-문자 분리,조합행렬생성, 특징 추출, 문자인식, 사전 후처리 -로 구성되어 있다. 문자 분리 모듈은 입력된 단어 영상을 하나의 문자보다 더 작은 이미지 조각으로 과다 분리하며 , 조합 행렬 생성모듈에서는 동적 프로그래밍 기법을 이용하여 분리된 이미지 조각들로부터 사전상의 모든 단어들과 대응되는 가능한 모든 조합을 생성한다. 문자인식모듈은 각 그룹에 대하여 일괄적으로 얻어진 특징과 유니그램을 이용하여 문자인식을 수행한다. 마지막으로 사전 후처리 모듈에서는 각 그룹에 대한 문자인식 결과와 단어 사전을 사용하여 입력단어에 대한 최종 인식 결과를 도출한다. 본 문에서 제안한 방법은 문자 분리, 문자 인식 및 후처리를 상호 보완적으로 결합함으로써 한글이 포함된 무제약 필기 문자열을 효과적으로 인식할 수 있다. 제안된 시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 실제 우편 봉투 상에 쓰여진 필기 한글 단어 200개를 대상으로 실험을 하였다. 실험 결과 200개의 단어중 172개의 단어를 정인식하여 86%의 정확도를 얻을 수 있었으며 나머지 28개의 오인식된 단어들을 분석한 결과 대부분의 오류는 문자 인식기의 낮은 신뢰도 때문임을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 하나의 단어를 인식하기 위하여 약 2초가 소요되었다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.3
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• pp.375-382
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• 2002

Handwritten character recognition is classified into on-line handwritten character recognition and off-line handwritten character recognition. On-line handwritten character recognition has made a remarkable outcome compared to off-line hacdwritten character recognition. This method can acquire the dynamic written information such as the writing order and the position of a stroke by means of pen-based electronic input device such as a tablet board. On the contrary, Any dynamic information can not be acquired in off-line handwritten character recognition since there are extreme overlapping between consonants and vowels, and heavily noisy images between strokes, which change the recognition performance with the result of the preprocessing. This paper proposes a method that effectively extracts the stroke including dynamic information of characters for off-line Korean handwritten character recognition. First of all, this method makes improvement and binarization of input handwritten character image as preprocessing procedure using watershed algorithm. The next procedure is extraction of skeleton by using the transformed Lu and Wang's thinning: algorithm, and segment pixel array is extracted by abstracting the feature point of the characters. Then, the vectorization is executed with a maximum permission error method. In the case that a few strokes are bound in a segment, a segment pixel array is divided with two or more segment vectors. In order to reconstruct the extracted segment vector with a complete stroke, the directional component of the vector is mortified by using right-hand writing coordinate system. With combination of segment vectors which are adjacent and can be combined, the reconstruction of complete stroke is made out which is suitable for character recognition. As experimentation, it is verified that the proposed method is suitable for handwritten Korean character recognition.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.74-77
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 자연스러운 온라인 필기체 문자 인식을 위하여 획 기반 HMM(Substroke HMM)을 기반으로 한 인식 방법을 채택하고, 획 분류의 정확도 향상을 위한 전처리 과정에 대해 재샘플링 간격 조정을 통한 획 분류실험을 통해 인식률 제고에 관한 실험을 수행하였다 필기체 문자인식을 위한 방법으로 한 문자 전체를 HMM으로 구성하는 Whole-character HMM과 자소단위를 HMM으로 구성하는 character HMM을 주로 이용하였으나, 이러한 방법은 문자의 수에 비례하여 비교적 큰 메모리 용량과 계산량이 요구되는 단점이 있다. 이러한 단점을 개선하기 위한 획 기반 HMM은 문자를 획 단위로 분류한 후 이를 HMM 모델로 구성하므로 소수의 획 기반 HMM 모델만으로 문자를 모두 표현할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있어, 인식률의 큰 저하 없이 계산량 및 메모리 용량을 크게 줄일 수 있다. PDA상에서 수집한 완성형 한글 데이터베이스를 사용하여 획 분류 실험을 수행한 결과 평활화와 7/100 길이의 재샘플링을 수행한 경우 평활화 과정을 추가하지 않은 기존의 재샘플링 5/100 길이의 경우에 비해 정확도가 평균 3.7% 향상을 나타내었으며, 특히 첨가 에러율이 감소함을 확인할 수 있다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.12D no.1 s.97
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• pp.159-164
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• 2005

In a computing environment connected pan-based computers and a server by Internet, This paper describes a language learning system evaluating the quality of a handwriting string. For the purpose of the system, this paper explains how to retrieve reference data from a database, how to evaluate the quality of a handwriting string using global and local features. The Proposed system can evaluate the qualify of a handwriting string as well as a handwriting character. The qualify can be computed in the case of different language between reference and input. Therefore, we expect that the system is very useful not only for training on handwriting but also learning a language.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.4
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• pp.429-442
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• 2003

In this paper, we describe an address image recognition system for automatic processing of standard- size letter mail. The inputs to the system are gray-level mail piece images and the outputs are delivery point codes with which a delivery sequence of carrier can be generated. The system includes five main modules; destination address block location, text line separation, character segmentation, character recognition and finally address interpretation. The destination address block is extracted on the basis of experimental knowledge and the line separation and character segmentation is done through the analysis of connected components and vortical runs. For recognizing characters, we developed MLP-based recognizers and dynamical programming technique for interpretation. Since each module has been implemented in an independent way, the system has a benefit that the optimization of each module is relatively easy. We have done the experiment with live mail piece images directly sampled from mail sorting machine in Yuseong post office. The experimental results prove the feasibility of our system.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.2400-2410
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• 2000

Many researches on recognition of Korean characters have been undertaken. But while the majority are done on Korean character recognition, tasks for developing document recognition system have seldom been challenged. In this paper, I designed a recognizer of Korean courtesy amounts to improve error correction in recognized character string. From the very first step of Korean character recognition, we face the enormous scale of data. We have 2350 characters in Korean. Almost the previous researches tried to recognize about 1000 frequently-used characters, but the recognition rates show under 80%. Therefore using these kinds of recognizers is not efficient, so we designed a statistical multiple recognizer which recognize 16 Korean characters used in courtesy amounts. By using multiple recognizer, we can prevent an increase of errors. For the Postprocessor of Korean courtesy amounts, we use the properties of Korean character strings. There are syntactic rules in character strings of Korean courtesy amounts. By using this property, we can correct errors in Korean courtesy amounts. This kind of error correction is restricted only to the Korean characters representing the unit of the amounts. The first candidate of Korean character recognizer show !!i.49% of recognition rate and up to the fourth candidate show 99.72%. For Korean character string which is postprocessed, recognizer of Korean courtesy amounts show 96.42% of reliability. In this paper, we suggest a method to improve the reliability of Korean courtesy amounts recognition by using the Korean character recognizer which recognize limited numbers of characters and the postprocessor which correct the errors in Korean character strings.