• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1834-1843
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a modular neural network based classification method for handwritten numerals utilizing rotated and translated images of an input image. The whole numeral pattern space is divided into smaller spaces which overlap each other and form multiple clusters. On these multiple clusters, multiple multilayer perceptrons (MLP) neural networks, specialized in those clusters, are constructed. Thus, each MLP acts as an expert network on the corresponding cluster. An MLP is also used as a gating network functioning as a mediator among the multiple MLPs. In the learning phase, an input numeral image is dithered by tow geometric operations of translation and rotation so that new numeral images similar to original one are generated. In the recognition phase, we utilize not only input numeral image, but also nearly generated images through the rotation and the translation of the original image. Thus, multiple output values for those generated images were combined to make class decision by various combination methods. The experimental results confirm the validity of the proposed method.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.159-166
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• 2009

In this paper, we analyse the noise robustness of MLPs(Multilayer perceptrons) through deriving the probability density function(p.d.f.) of output nodes with additive input noises and the misclassification ratio with the integral form of the p.d.f. functions. Also, we propose linear preprocessing methods to improve the noise robustness. As a preprocessing stage of MLPs, we consider ICA(independent component analysis) and PCA(principle component analysis). After analyzing the noise reduction effect using PCA or ICA in the viewpoints of SNR(Singal-to-Noise Ratio), we verify the preprocessing effects through the simulations of handwritten-digit recognition problems.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.1009-1015
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• 2009

Handwriting verification is a technique of distinguishing the same person's handwriting specimen from imitations with any two or more texts using one's handwriting individuality. This paper suggests an effective verification method for the handwritten signature or text on the off-line environment using pattern recognition technology. The core processes of the method which has been researched in this paper are extraction of letter area, extraction of features employing structural characteristics of handwritten text, feature analysis employing DTW(Dynamic Time Warping) algorithm and PCA(Principal Component Analysis). The experimental results show a superior performance of the suggested method.

• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.39-54
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• 1997

Laboratory testings were carried out on plastic board drains (PBDs) using large scale test apparatus to evaluate the physical properties and the drainage performance. The test results reveal that the domestic products of PBDs are well compared with the foreign prod acts as far as the quality and drainage performance are concerned. It has also been confirmed that the discharge capacity decreases with time in such a way that the air bubbles are entrapped inside kinky PBDs and these air bubbles block the water flow through PBDs. It has been found that the vacuum pressure iseffectively applicable to recover the discharge capacity affected by the entrapped air bubbles.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.35C no.6
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• pp.67-75
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• 1998

Although the nCE(n-th order cross-entropy) error function resolves the incorrect saturation problem of conventional EBP(error back-propagation) algorithm, the performance of MLP's (multilayer perceptrons) trained using the nCE function depends heavily on the order of the nCE function. In this paper, we propose an adaptive learning rate to make the performance of MLP's insensitive to the order of the nCE error. Additionally, we propose a limited error signal of output node to prevent unstable learning due to the adaptive learning rate. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated in simulations of handwritten digit recognition and thyroid diagnosis tasks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.332-339
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• 1986

This paper proposes a new method for the normalization of shape pattern based on Gaussian probability density function to increase automatic recognition rate of hand-written Hangul pattern. The sizes of hand-written Hangul pattern are detected from the input images, and pattern sizes are normalized by two variables interpolation. The pattrn shapes are noralized by letting correlation coefficients equal to zero. It is analyzed theoretically and verified through computer simulation for the relation between input image and normaized shape pattern. It is confirmed that this method is effective and reasonable for deformed hand-written Hangul pattern. Experimental resu results show that the declination. size and stroke width of hand-written Hangul patterns are mych improved.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.2 s.40
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• pp.153-158
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• 2006

The effect of solving questions and learning via internet is getting more and more important these days. In this paper we propose an active learning method that makes a database for the information about certificates and practical examinations and accesses it easily. First of all, this method makes it possible to evaluate students individually, improves the motive of learning and gives students a sense of achievement by providing a user-specific question filtering technique using user profile information by weight. And, it elevates the acquisition rate of certificates by advising and managing for certificate-acquisition and it also draw more interest and understanding for future directions. The case using the method of this paper, the examination record of a certificate of qualification is elevated about 10 marks.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.270-279
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• 2000

This paper describes the on-chip learning algorithm of neural networks using the stochastic pulse arithmetic. Stochastic pulse arithmetic is the computation using the numbers represented by the probability of 1' and 0's occurrences in a random pulse stream. This stochastic arithmetic has the merits when applied to neural network ; reduction of the area of the implemented hardware and getting a global solution escaping from local minima by virtue of the stochastic characteristics. And in this study, the on-chip learning algorithm is derived from the backpropagation algorithm for effective hardware implementation. We simulate the nonlinear separation problem of the some character patterns to verify the proposed learning algorithm. We also had good results after applying this algorithm to recognize printed and handwritten numbers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.1070-1075
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• 2019

In this paper, I propose an algorithm to generate an input digit image for a digit recognition system by detecting a digit string in an image and segmenting the digits constituting the digit string. The proposed algorithm detects blobbed digit string through blob detection, designates a digit string area and corrects digit string skew using the detected blob information. And the proposed algorithm corrects the digit skew and determines the boundary points for the digit segmentation in the corrected digit sequence using three CPgraphs newly defined in this paper. In digit segmentation experiments using the image group including digit strings printed with a range of the font sizes and the image group including handwritten digit strings, the proposed algorithm successfully segments 100% and 90% of the digits in each image group.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.9
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• pp.867-875
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• 2003

This paper concerns continuous density HMM topology optimization. There have been several researches for HMM topology optimization. BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion) is one of the well known optimization criteria, which assumes statistically well behaved homogeneous model parameters. HMMs, however, are composed of several different kind of parameters to accommodate complex topology, thus BIC's assumption does not hold true for HMMs. Even though BIC reduced the total number of parameters of HMMs, it could not improve the recognition rates. In this paper, we proposed two new model selection criteria, HBIC (HMM-oriented BIC) and BIC_Anti. The former is proposed to improve BIC by estimating model priors separately. The latter is to combine BIC and anti-likelihood to accelerate discrimination power of HMMs. We performed some comparative research on couple of model selection criteria for online handwriting data recognition. We got better recognition results with fewer number of parameters.