• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.379-387
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• 2001

We proposed an enhanced extraction method of vehicle plate, in which both the brightness variation of gray and the Hue value of HSI color model were used. For the extraction of the vehicle plate from a vehicle image, first of all, candidate regions for the vehicle plate were extracted from the image by using the property of brightness variation of the image. A real place region was determined among candidate regions by the density of pixels with the Hue value of green and white. For- extracting the feature area containing characters from the extracted vehicle plate, we used the histogram-based approach of individual characters. And we proposed and applied for the recognition of characters the enhanced ART2 algorithm which support the dynamical establishment of the vigilance threshold with the genera]iced union operator of Yager. In addition, we propose an enhanced SOSL algorithm which is integrated both enhanced ART2 and supervised learning methods. The performance evaluation was performed using 100's real vehicle images and the evaluation results demonstrated that the extraction rates of tole proposed extraction method were improved, compared with that of previous methods based un brightness variation, RGB and HSI individually . Furthermore, the recognition rates of the proposed algorithms were improved much more than that of the conventional ART2 and BP algorithms.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.105-115
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• 2002

This paper proposed a recognition method of english calling card using both 4-directed contour tracking algorithm and enhanced ART1 algorithm. After we extract candidate character string region using horizontal smearing and 4-directed contour tracking method, we extract character string region through comparison of character region and non-character region using horizontal and vertical ratio and area in english calling card. In extracted character string region, we extract each character using horizontal smearing and contour tracking algorithm, and recognize each character by enhanced ART1 algorithm. The proposed ART1 algorithm is enhanced by dynamic control of similarity using fuzzy sum connective operator. The result indicate that the proposed method is superior in performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.2486-2491
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• 2013

There are invisible defects by naked eyes in ceramic material images such as internal stomata, cracks and foreign substances. In this paper we propose a method to detect and extract such defects from ceramic pipe weld zone by applying ART2 learning. In pre-processing, we apply Ends-in Search Stretching to enhance the intensity and then perform fuzzy binarization with triangle type membership function followed by enhanced ART2 that interacts with random input patterns to extract such invisible defects. The experiment verifies that this proposed method is sufficiently effective.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.2C
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• pp.31-40
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• 2005

we propose an enhanced self-generation supervised algorithm that by combining an ART algorithm and the delta-bar-delta method. Form the input layer to the hidden layer, ART-1 and ART-2 are used to produce nodes, respectively. A winner-take-all method is adopted to the connection weight adaption so that a stored pattern for some pattern is updated. we test the recognition of student identification, a certificate of residence, and an identifier from container that require nodes of hidden layers in neural network. In simulation results, the proposed self-generation supervised learning algorithm reduces the possibility of local minima and improves learning speed and paralysis than conventional neural networks.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.84-87
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• 2003

This paper proposes the enhanced REF network, which arbitrates learning rate and momentum dynamically by using the fuzzy system, to arbitrate the connected weight effectively between the middle layer of REF network and the output layer of REF network. ART2 is applied to as the learning structure between the input layer and the middle layer and the proposed auto-turning method of arbitrating the learning rate as the method of arbitrating the connected weight between the middle layer and the output layer. The enhancement of proposed method in terms of learning speed and convergence is verified as a result of comparing it with the conventional delta-bar-delta algorithm and the REF network on the basis of the ART2 to evaluate the efficiency of learning of the proposed method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.5C
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• pp.486-492
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• 2003

The vigilance threshold of conventional fuzzy ART algorithm decide whether to permit the mismatch between any input pattern and stored pattern. If the vigilance threshold was large, despite of little difference among input and stored patterns, the input pattern may be classified to new category. On the other hand, if the vigilance threshold was small, the similarity between two patterns may be accepted in spite of lots of difference and the input pattern are classified to category of the stored pattern. Therefore, the vigilance threshold for the image recognition must be experientially set for the good result. Moreover, it may occur in the fuzzy ART algorithm that the information of stored patterns is lost in the weight-adjusting process and the rate of pattern recognition is dropped. In this paper, I proposed the enhanced fuzzy ART algorithm that supports the dynamical setting of the vigilance threshold using the generalized intersection operator of fuzzy logic and the weight value being adaptively set in proportional to the current weight change and the previous weight by reflecting the frequency of the selection of winner node. For the performance evaluation of the proposed method, we applied to the recognition of container identifiers from shipping container images. The experiment showed that the proposed method produced fewer clusters than conventional ART2 and fuzzy ART algorithm. and had tile higher recognition rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.365-369
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• 2002

퍼지 ART 알고리즘에서 경계 변수는 패턴들을 클러스터링하는데 있어서 반지름 값이 되며 임의의 패턴과 저장된 패턴과의 불일치(mismatch) 허용도를 결정한다. 이 경계 변수가 크면 입력 벡터와 기대 벡터 사이에 약간의 차이가 있어도 새로운 카테고리(category)로 분류하게 핀다. 반대로 경계 변수가 작으면 입력 벡터와 기대 벡터 사이에 많은 차이가 있더라도 유사성이 인정되어 입력 벡터들을 대략적으로 분류한다. 따라서 영상 인식에 적용하기 위해서는 경험적으로 경계 변수를 설정해야 단점이 있다. 그리고 연결 가중치를 조정하는 과정에서 저장된 패턴들의 정보들이 손실되는 경우가 발생하여 인식율을 저하시킨다. 된 논문에서는 퍼지 ART 알고리즘의 문제점을 개선하기 위하여 퍼지 논리 접속 연산자를 이용하여 경계 변수를 동적으로 조정하고 저장 패턴들과 학습 패턴간의 실제적인 왜곡 정도를 충분히 고려하여 승자 노드로 선택된 빈도수를 가중치 조정에 적용한 개선된 퍼지 ART 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 확인하기 위해서 실제 운송 컨테이너 영상들을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 ART2 알고리즘이나 퍼지 ART 알고리즘보다 클러스터의 수가 적게 생성되었고 인식 성능도 기존의 방법들보다 우수한 성능이 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.2150-2157
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• 2007

In this paper, we have proposed a self disease diagnosis system for ordinary persons to help the decision of access methods to a specialized medical management, and for medical specialities to discover new diseases and their symptoms easily, using verification of an individual#s health status by a series of processes performed by oneself. In the proposed self disease diagnosis system, illness is decided by 60 kinds of diseases selected using the report called #Diseases that Koreans take seriously# published by Ministry of Health & Welfare and medical contents called #Engel Pharm#, and also using 161 representative symptoms for the 60 kinds of diseases. An individual#s health information is extracted by diagnosis of one#s health status by a clustering of the 60 kinds of diseases using enhanced ART2 algorithm and input vectors from the results of questions for symptoms of each disease.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.202-206
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• 2005

우리나라 주민등록증은 주소지, 주민등록 번호, 지문 등 개개인의 방대한 정보를 가진다. 그런데 현재의 플라스틱 주민등록증은 위?변조가 쉬워 사회적으로 많은 문제를 일으키고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 주민등록증을 전산화 하여 주민등록증 위조여부를 판단하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 주민등록증 영상을 자동 인식할 수 있는 개선된 ART2기반 RBF 네트워크를 이용한 주민등록증 자동 인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 주민등록증 영상에서 위치 정보와 수직 및 수평 히스토그램 방법을 이용하여 주민등록번호와 발행일 영역을 추출한다. 그리고 추출된 주민등록번호와 발행일 영역에서 4 방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘으로 개별 문자를 추출한다. 추출된 개별 코드는 개선된 ART2 기반 RBF 네트워크를 제안하여 인식에 적용한다. 제안된 ART2 기반 RBF 네트워크는 ART2알고리즘을 중간층으로 적용하고 중간층과 출력층 간의 학습은 일반화된 델타 학습에 모멘텀을 적용하여 학습 성능을 개선한다. 실제 주민등록증 영상을 이용하여 실험한 결과, 제안된 ART2기반 RBF 네트워크가 주민등록증 인식에 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09b
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• pp.91-94
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 RBF 네트워크의 중간층과 출력층 사이의 연결강도를 효율적으로 조정하기 위해 퍼지 논리 시스템을 이용하여 학습률과 모멘텀을 동적으로 조정하는 개선된 RBF 네트워크를 제안한다. 입력층과 중간층 사이의 학습 구조로 ART2를 적용하고 중간층과 출력층 사이의 연결 강도 조정 방법으로는 제안된 학습률 자동 조정 방식을 적용한다. 제안된 방법의 학습 성능을 평가하기 위해 기존의 delta-bar-delta 알고리즘, 기존의 ART2 기반의 RBF 네트워크와 비교 분석한 결과, 제안된 방법이 학습 속도와 수렴성에서 개선된 것을 확인하였다.