• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.163-172
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• 2017

A high performance license plate recognition system (LPRS) is proposed in this work. The proposed LPRS is composed of the following three main stages: (i) plate region determination, (ii) character segmentation, and (iii) character recognition. During the plate region determination stage, the image is enhanced by image processing algorithms to increase system performance. The rectangular license plate region is obtained using edge-based image processing methods on the binarized image. With the help of skew correction, the plate region is prepared for the character segmentation stage. Characters are separated from each other using vertical projections on the plate region. Segmented characters are prepared for the character recognition stage by a thinning process. At the character recognition stage, a three-layer feedforward artificial neural network using a backpropagation learning algorithm is constructed and the characters are determined.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.310-314
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 선형 이진 신경회로망 (Linear Binary neural Network)을 이용하여 이진 영상으로부터 골격(skeleton)을 추출하는 병렬 구조를 제안하였다. 기존의 골격 추출 알고리즘으로부터 이진함수를 추출하고 이를 MSP Term Grouping Algorithm을 이용하여 학습시겼다. 결과에서는 기존의 역전과 (Back-propagation) 학습알고리즘을 사용한 신경회로망보다 더 쉽게 하드웨어로 구현할 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.365-372
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• 2022

관성 측정 센서는 사람 행동 인식 시스템에 주로 사용되는 센서들에 비해 크기가 작고 가벼우며 낮은 비용으로 시스템의 경량화를 달성할 수 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 관성 측정 센서를 이용한 이진 신경망 기반 걸음걸이 패턴 분석 시스템을 제안하고, 연산 가속을 위한 FPGA 기반 가속기 설계 및 구현 결과를 제시한다. 관성 측정 센서를 통해 걸음걸이에 대한 6가지 신호를 측정하고, 단시간 푸리에 변환을 이용하여 스펙트로그램을 추출한다. 높은 정확도를 가지는 경량화 시스템을 갖추기 위해 걸음걸이 패턴 분류에 BNN (binarized neural network) 기반 구조를 사용하였고, 검증 결과 97.5%의 높은 정확도와 메모리 사용량이 합성곱 신경망에 비해 96.7% 감소한 것을 확인하였다. 이진 신경망의 연산 가속을 위해 FPGA를 이용한 하드웨어 가속기 구조로 설계하였다. 제안된 걸음걸이 패턴 분석 시스템은 24,158개의 logic, 14,669개의 register, 13.687 KB의 block memory를 사용하여 구현되어 62.35 MHz의 최대 동작 주파수에서 1.5ms 내에 연산이 완료되어 실시간 동작이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.603-607
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• 2003

The judgment of forged passports plays an important role in the immigration control system, for which the automatic and accurate processing is required because of the rapid increase of travelers. So, as the preprocessing phase for the judgment of forged passports, this paper proposed the novel method for the recognition of passport based on the fuzzy binarization and the fuzzy RBF neural network newly proposed. first, for the extraction of individual codes being recognized, the paper extracts code sequence blocks including individual codes by applying the Sobel masking, the horizontal smearing and the contour tracking algorithm in turn to the passport image, binarizes the extracted blocks by using the fuzzy binarization based on the membership function of trapezoid type, and, as the last step, recovers and extracts individual codes from the binarized areas by applying the CDM masking and the vertical smearing. Next, the paper proposed the enhanced fuzzy RBF neural network that adapts the enhanced fuzzy ART network to the middle layer and applied to the recognition of individual codes. The results of the experiment for performance evaluation on the real passport images showed that the proposed method in the paper has the improved performance in the recognition of passport.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.376-382
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• 2010

We propose a novel method to precisely detect car license plates by locating main characters, which are printed with large font size. The regions of the main characters are directly detected without detecting the plate region boundaries, so that license regions can be detected more precisely than by other existing methods. To generate a binary image, multiple thresholds are applied, and segmented regions are selected from multiple binarized images by a criterion of size and compactness. We do not employ any character matching methods, so that many candidates for main character groups are detected; thus, we use a neural network to reject non-main character groups from the candidates. The relation of the character regions and the intensity statistics are used as the input to the neural network for classification. The detection performance has been investigated on real images captured under various illumination conditions for 1000 vehicles. 980 plates were correctly detected, and almost all non-detected plates were so stained that their characters could not be isolated for character recognition. In addition, the processing time is fast enough for a commercial automatic license plate recognition system. Therefore, the proposed method can be used for recognition systems with high performance and fast processing.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.365-370
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• 1997

In this paper we suggest a development of surface defect inspection algorithms for cold mill strip using tree structure. The defects which exist in a surface of cold mill strip have a scattering or singular distribution. This paper consists of preprocessing, feature extraction and defect classification. By preprocessing, the binarized defect image is achieved. In this procedure, Top-hit transform, adaptive thresholding, thinning and noise rejection are used. Especially, Top-hit transform using local min/max operation diminishes the effect of bad lighting. In feature extraction, geometric, moment, co-occurrence matrix, histogram-ratio features are calculated. The histogram-ratio feature is taken from the gray-level image. For the defect classification, we suggest a tree structure of which nodes are multilayer neural network clasifiers. The proposed algorithm reduced error rate comparing to one stage structure.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.547-550
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• 2009

The object recognition mechanism of human being is not well understood yet. On research of animal experiment using an ape, however, neurons that respond to simple shape (e.g. circle, triangle, square and so on) were found. And Hypothesis has been set up as human being may recognize object as combination of such simple shapes. That mechanism is called Figure Alphabet Hypothesis, and those simple shapes are called Figure Alphabet. As one way to research object recognition algorithm, we focused attention to this Figure Alphabet Hypothesis. Getting idea from it, we proposed the feature extraction algorithm for object recognition. In this paper, we described recognition of binarized images of multifont alphabet characters by the recognition model which combined three-layered neural network in the feature extraction algorithm. First of all, we calculated the difference between the learning image data set and the template by the feature extraction algorithm. The computed finite difference is a feature quantity of the feature extraction algorithm. We had it input the feature quantity to the neural network model and learn by backpropagation (BP method). We had the recognition model recognize the unknown image data set and found the correct answer rate. To estimate the performance of the contriving recognition model, we had the unknown image data set recognized by a conventional neural network. As a result, the contriving recognition model showed a higher correct answer rate than a conventional neural network model. Therefore the validity of the contriving recognition model could be proved. We'll plan the research a recognition of natural image by the contriving recognition model in the future.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.211-218
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• 2022

연속파 레이다는 카메라나 라이다와 같은 센서에 비해서 안정성과 정확성이 보장된다는 장점이 있다. 또한 이진 신경망은 다른 딥러닝 기술에 비해서 메모리 사용량과 연산 복잡도를 크게 줄일 수 있는 특징이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 연속파 레이다와 이진 신경망 기반 사람 식별 및 동작 분류 시스템을 제안한다. 연속파 레이다 센서를 통해 수신된 신호를 단시간 푸리에 변환함으로써 스펙트로그램을 생성한다. 이 스펙트로그램을 기반으로 레이다를 향해 사람이 다가오는지 감지하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 더불어, 최적화된 이진 신경망 모델을 설계하여 사람 식별 90.0%, 동작 분류 98.3%의 우수한 정확도를 지원할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 이진 신경망 연산을 가속하기 위해 FPGA (field programmable gate array)를 이용하여 이진 신경망 연산에 대한 하드웨어 가속기를 설계하였다. 해당 가속기는 1,030개의 로직, 836개의 레지스터, 334.906 Kbit의 블록 메모리를 사용하여 구현되었고, 추론에서 결과 전송까지 총 연산 시간이 6 ms로 실시간 동작이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.179-186
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• 1997

In this paper we suggest a development of surface defect inspection algorithms for cold mill strip. The defects which exist in a surface of cold mill strip have a scattering or singular distribution. This paper consists of preprocessing, feature extraction and defect classification. By preprocessing, the binarized defect image is achieved. In this procedure, Top-hit transform, adaptive thresholding, thinning and noise rejection are used. Especially, Top-hit transform using local min/max operation diminishes the effect of bad lighting. In feature extraction, geometric, moment and co-occurrence matrix features are calculated. For the defect classification, multilayer neural network is used. The proposed algorithm showed 15% error rate.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1240-1242
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• 1996

In a still mill, the effective surface defect inspection algorithm is necessary. For this purpose, this paper proposed the preprocessing algorithm for surface defect inspection of cold mill strip. This consists of live steps. They are edge detection, binarizing, noise deletion, combining of fragmented defect and selecting the largest defect. Especially, binarizing is a critical problem. Bemuse the performance of the preprocessing is largely depend on the binarized image. So, we develope the adaptive thresholding method, which is multilevel thresholding. The thresholding value is varied according to the mean graylevel value of each test image. To investigate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we classified the detected defect using neural network. The test image is 20 defect images captured at German Sick Co. This algorithm is proved to have good property in cold mill strip surface inspection.