• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.525-533
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• 2003

In this paper we introduce some existing preprocessing algorithm for character recognition and consider feature extraction method for the recognition of low resolution document. Image recognition of low resolution document including fax images can be frequently misclassified due to the blurring effect, slope effect, noise and so on. In order to overcome these difficulties in the character recognition we considered a mesh feature extraction and contour direction code feature. System for automatic character recognition were suggested.

• 한국통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국통신학회 1991년도 추계종합학술발표회논문집
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• pp.77-80
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• 1991

This paper proposes a new feature extraction method which is effectively used in character recognition, and validate the effectiveness through various computational methods for similiarity degree. To get feature vectors used in this method, Hough transform is applied to character image, which is used for edge extraction in image processing. By that transformation technique, strokes could be extracted and feature vectors constructed suitably. The characteristic of this method is solving the difficulties in stroke extraction through transform space analysis, which is induced by noise and blurring, and representing high recognition rate 99.3% within 10 candidates in relative low dimension.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제29B권11호
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• pp.102-110
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• 1992

In this paper, a new method of character recognition is proposed. It uses density information, in addition to positional and directional information generally used, to recognize a character. Four directional feature primitives are extracted from the thinning templates on the observation that the output of the templates have directional property in general. A simple and fast feature extraction scheme is possible. Features are organized from recursive nonary tree(N-tree) that corresponds to normalized character area. Each node of the N-tree has four directional features that are sum of the features of it's nine sub-nodes. Every feature primitive from the templates are added to the corresponding leaf and then summed to the upper nodes successively. Recognition can be accomplished by using appropriate feature level of N-tree. Also, effectiveness of each node's feature vector was tested by experiment. A method to implement the proposed feature vector organization algorithm into hardware is proposed as well. The third generation node, which is 4$\times$4, is used as a unit processing element to extract features, and it was implemented in hardware. As a result, we could observe that it is possible to extract feature vector for real-time processing.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제30B권9호
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• pp.94-105
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• 1993

In this paper propose a Koaren character recognition system using a neural network is proposed. This system is a multilayer neural network based on the masking field model which consists of a input layer, four feature extraction layers which extracts type, direction, stroke, and connection features, and an output layer which gives us recognized character codes. First, 4x4 subpatterns of an NxN character pattern stored in the input buffer are applied into the feature extraction layers sequentially. Then, each of feature extraction layers extracts sequentially features such as type, direction, stroke, and connection, respectively. Type features for direction and connection are extracted by the type feature extraction layer, direction features for stroke by the direction feature extraction layer and stroke and connection features for stroke by the direction feature extraction layer and stroke and connection features for the recongnition of character by the stroke and the connection feature extractions layers, respectively. The stroke and connection features are saved in the sequential buffer layer sequentially and using these features the characters are recognized in the output layer. The recognition results of this system by tests with 8 single consonants and 6 single vowels are promising.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.311-318
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• 1994

시각신경계의 특정추출 기구인 수용영역 즉, RF(Receptive Field)모델을 이용하여 한자의 획의 분리 및 추출에 관한 방법을 제안한다. 한자의 복잡한 정보에 대한 분리 추출과 데이터베이스화 등은 더욱 명백한 처리과정을 필요로하고 있다. 본 기법의 특 징은 망막과 대뇌 시각영역의 특징추출 기구인 수용영역을 모델링 하였고 신경세포 입력 방식에 따라 국소적인 처리에서 얻어진 정보를 대국적인 처리로 통합 추출하는 것으로서 그 기능성과 유효성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.929-936
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• 1990

This paper describes the method of the Korean character recognition by means of feature points extraction. Also, the preprocessing neural chip for noise elimination, smoothing, thinning and feature point extraction has been designs. The subpatterns were separated by means of advanced index algorithm using mask, and recognized by means of feature points classification. The separation of the Korean character subpatterns was abtained about 97%, and the recognition of the Korean characters was abtained about 95%. The preprocessing neural chip was simulated on SPICE and layouted by double CMOS 2\ulcorner design rule.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.19-25
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 구 좌표계를 이용하여 위치에 대한 불변 특징을 획득할 수 있는 문자 특징 추출 방법을 제시하고자 하였으며, 획득한 문자 특징 정보를 이용하여 해당 문자를 영상 중심으로 이동시켜 인식이 가능하도록 하는 시스템을 제안하고자 하였다. 또한 영상 중심에 이동시키는 방법으로 좌표 평균값에 의한 중심 이동법을 사용하여 인식에 필요한 시스템을 구현하였으며, 추출된 특징에 대하여 특징의 이질도를 검사하여, 각 특징의 이질도가 평균 78.14% 이상의 결과를 얻었다. 본 논문에서는 문자 인식을 위하여 구 좌표계를 이용한 문자 특징 추출 방법을 제시하였으며, 무게 중심법을 이용하여 문자를 중앙에 처리한 상태에서 이질도를 알아봄으로서 인식 가능한 형태의 문자 형태를 얻을 수 있는 가능성을 제시하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 입력의 자동화 및 교육을 위한 문자 익히기 시스템을 위하여 자소의 특징 추출과 유사도 함수를 정의하여 한글에 대한 미적평가를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 한글 문자의 자소에 대한 특징 추출 및 유사도 함수를 정의 한 후 표준 문자와 입력 문자가 얼마나 유사한지를 평가하는 방법을 제안하였다. 표준 문자와 입력 문자의 획에 대한 특징 추출 및 유사도 함수를 정의하였으며, 다양한 입력 문자 패턴에 대해 표준 문자 패턴과 얼마나 유사한지를 실험한 결과 예상한 값과 유사하게 일치하는 실험 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 일반 사람들의 미적 평가 결과와 제안한 방법의 실험 결과가 유사하게 일치한다는 결과도 얻을 수 있었다.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제28B권5호
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• pp.382-393
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• 1991

In this paper, we propose a method for recognizing printed Korean characters using the Preceding Layer Driven multi-layer perceptron. The new learning algorithm which assigns the weight values to an integer and makes use of the transfer function as the step function was presented to design the hardware. We obtained 522 Korean character-image as an experimental object through scanner with 600DPI resolution. The preprocessing for feature extraction of Korean character is the separation of individual character, noise elimination smoothing, thinnig, edge point extraction, branch point extraction, and stroke segmentation. The used feature data are the number of edge points and their shapes, the number of branch points, and the number of strokes with 8 directions.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제31B권6호
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• pp.104-110
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• 1994

We proposed a high speed feature extraction algorithm and developed a feature vector extraction chip for high speed character recognition. It is hard to implement a high speed OCR by software alone with statistical method . Thus, the whole recognition process is divided into functional steps, then pipeline processed so that high speed processing is possible with temporal parallelism of the steps. In this paper we discuss the feature extraction step of the functional steps. To extract feature vector, a character image is normalized to 40$\times$40 pixels. Then, it is divided into 5$\times$5 subregions and 4x4 subregions to construct 41 overlapped subregions(10x10 pixels). It requires to execute more than 500 commands to extract a feature vector of a subregion by software. The proposed algorithm, however, requires only 10 cycles since it can extract a feature vector of a columm of subregion in one cycle with array structure. Thus, it is possible to process 12.000 characters per second with the proposed algorithm. The chip is implemented using EPLD and the effectiveness is proved by developing an OCR using it.