• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2006

In Korea, a resident registration card has various personal information such as a present address, a resident registration number, a face picture and a fingerprint. A plastic-type resident card currently used is easy to forge or alter and tricks of forgery grow to be high-degree as time goes on. So, whether a resident card is forged or not is difficult to judge by only an examination with the naked eye. This paper proposed an automatic recognition method of a resident card which recognizes a resident registration number by using a refined ART2-based RBF network newly proposed and authenticates a face picture by a template image matching method. The proposed method, first, extracts areas including a resident registration number and the date of issue from a resident card image by applying Sobel masking, median filtering and horizontal smearing operations to the image in turn. To improve the extraction of individual codes from extracted areas, the original image is binarized by using a high-frequency passing filter and CDM masking is applied to the binaried image fur making image information of individual codes better. Lastly, individual codes, which are targets of recognition, are extracted by applying 4-directional contour tracking algorithm to extracted areas in the binarized image. And this paper proposed a refined ART2-based RBF network to recognize individual codes, which applies ART2 as the loaming structure of the middle layer and dynamicaly adjusts a teaming rate in the teaming of the middle and the output layers by using a fuzzy control method to improve the performance of teaming. Also, for the precise judgement of forgey of a resident card, the proposed method supports a face authentication by using a face template database and a template image matching method. For performance evaluation of the proposed method, this paper maked metamorphoses of an original image of resident card such as a forgey of face picture, an addition of noise, variations of contrast variations of intensity and image blurring, and applied these images with original images to experiments. The results of experiment showed that the proposed method is excellent in the recognition of individual codes and the face authentication fur the automatic recognition of a resident card.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.149-154
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• 2008

FCM 기반 RBF 네트워크는 서로 다른 학습 구조가 결합된 혼합형 모델로서, 입력층과 중간층의 학습 구조는 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하고, 중간층과 출력층 사이의 학습 구조는 Max_Min 신경망을 적용한다. 입력층과 중간층의 학습시 입력벡터와 중간층의 노드중에서 중심과 입력벡터간의 가장 가까운 노드를 승자 노드로 선택하여 출력층으로 전달한다. 그리고 중간층과 출력층 사이의 학습 구조는 Max_Min 신경망을 적용하여 중간층의 승자 뉴런이 출력층의 입력벡터로 적용한다. 하지만 많은 패턴이 입력벡터로 제시될 경우 학습 성능이 저하되는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 중간층과 출력층의 학습 구조인 Max_Min 알고리즘의 학습 성능을 개선시키기 위해 퍼지 제어시스템을 이용하여 학습률을 동적으로 조정하는 퍼지 제어 기법을 이용한 FCM 기반 RBF 네트워크를 제안한다. 제안된 방법의 학습 성능을 평가하기 위하여 컨테이너 영상에서 추출한 숫자, 영문 식별자를 학습 데이터로 적용한 결과, 기존의 ART2 기반 RBF 네트워크보다 학습 시간이 적게 소요되고, 학습의 수렴성이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.4
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• pp.443-450
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed the novel hierarchical algorithm for the recognition of English calling cards that processes multiresolution images of calling cards hierarchically to extract individual characters and recognizes the extracted characters by using the enhanced neural network method. The hierarchical recognition algorithm generates multiresolution images of calling cards, and each processing step in the algorithm selects and processes the image with suitable resolution for lower processing overhead and improved output. That is, first, the image of 1/3 times resolution, to which the horizontal smearing method is applied, is used to extract the areas including only characters from the calling card image, and next, by applying the vertical smearing and the contour tracking masking, the image of a half time resolution is used to extract individual characters from the character string areas. Lastly, the original image is used in the recognition step, because the image includes the morphological information of characters accurately. And for the recognition of characters with diverse font types and various sizes, the enhanced RBF network that improves the middle layer based on the ART1 was proposed and applied. The results of experiments on a large number of calling card images showed that the proposed algorithm is greatly improved in the performance of character extraction and recognition compared with the traditional recognition algorithms.