• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.6B
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• pp.820-827
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• 2001

한글은 둘 또는 세 개의 자모가 사각형 영역 안에 적절히 배치된 구조로 되어 있다. 이와 같은 구성 방법에 따라 글자의 영상을 합성하고 이를 실시간에 Pseudo 2D HMM으로 변환하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 방법에 따라 실시간 합성된 모델과 추가의 필러(filler) 모델, 여백 모델을 문서 영상의 글자 영역에서 핵심어 검출에 적용하였다. 실험 결과 최소한의 설계 변수 조정으로도 오검출, 미검출률이 낮고 언어 모델 없이 숫자 89%, 한글 80%의 검출성능을 보였으며, 따라서 제안된 방법이 인쇄 문자 패턴의 실시간 모델링 및 키워드 검출에 효과가 있음을 보였다. 본 연구 결과는 내용 기반의 광학 문서 색인 등에 활용할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.201-204
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• 1997

최근 주소를 자동으로 인식하여 우편물 분류와 같은 업무를 효과적으로 수행하기 위한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 기존 연구들은 낱자 단위의 인식을 수행한 후 사전 형태의 간단한 DB를 통해 최종의 결과를 생성한다. 그러나 한글과 같은 복잡한 구조의 필기 문자에 대한 인식기의 성능은 아직도 미흡한 상태이다. 따라서 낱자 인식기의 성능에 의존하는 현재와 같은 방법으로는 만족할 만한 결과를 얻기가 힘들 것으로 생각된다. 본 논문에서는 낱자 인식 결과에 크게 의존하지 않고 주소에 나타나는 단어의 낱자들 사이간 연결 정보를 이용하여 단어를 인식할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다. 본 시스템은 통계적 인식기를 사용하여 낱자를 인식하는 부분과 낱자 인식 결과를 조합하여 단어 수준의 인식과정을 통해 최종의 결과를 생성하는 부분으로 구성된다. 통계적 인식기는 Nearest neighborhood 방법을 사용하여 간단한 형태로 구현하였다. 단어인식 모듈은 단어에서 모든 문자간의 관계를 표현할 수 있도록 HMM 모형을 사용하여 어휘정보 네트워크를 구성하고 이를 이용하여 주소에 나타나는 단어를 인식하도록 하였다. PE92 한글 문자 데이터를 이용하여 실험을 수 璿\ulcorner 결과, 통계적 인식기의 성능이 저조함에도 불구하고 HMM을 이용한 어휘정보 네트워크가 이를 보완함으로써 좋은 결과를 얻었다. 이러한 단어 인식 방법을 주소 이외의 다른 단어 집합에 대해서도 쉽게 적용될 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.636-644
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• 1990

Hidden Markov models(HMM's) have been known to be useful representation for speech signal and are used in a wide variety of speech systems. For speech recognition applications, it is desirable to incorporate durational information of states in model which correspond to phonetic duration of speech segments. In this paper we propose duration-dependent HMM's that include durational information of states appropriately for the left-to-right model. Reestimation formulae for the parameters of the proposed model are derived and their convergence is verified. Finally, the performance of the proposed models is verified by applying to an isolated word, speaker independent speech recognition system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.57-64
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• 1999

In this paper, we investigated the robust endpoint detection algorithm in noisy environment. A new feature parameter based on a discrete wavelet transform is proposed for word boundary detection of isolated utterances. The sum of standard deviation of wavelet coefficients in the third coarse and weighted first detailed scale is defined as a new feature parameter for endpoint detection. We then developed a new and robust endpoint detection algorithm using the feature found in the wavelet domain. For the performance evaluation, we evaluated the detection accuracy and the average recognition error rate due to endpoint detection in an HMM-based recognition system across several signal-to-noise ratios and noise conditions.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.101-109
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• 2006

It has been known that there is strong relationship between human voices and the movements of the articulatory facial muscles. In this paper, we utilize this knowledge to implement an automatic speech recognition scheme which uses solely surface electromyogram (EMG) signals. The EMG signals were acquired from three articulatory facial muscles. Preliminary, 10 Korean digits were used as recognition variables. The various feature parameters including filter bank outputs, linear predictive coefficients and cepstrum coefficients were evaluated to find the appropriate parameters for EMG-based speech recognition. The sequence of the EMG signals for each word is modelled by a hidden Markov model (HMM) framework. A continuous word recognition approach was investigated in this work. Hence, the model for each word is obtained by concatenating the subword models and the embedded re-estimation techniques were employed in the training stage. The findings indicate that such a system may have a capacity to recognize speech signals with an accuracy of up to 90%, in case when mel-filter bank output was used as the feature parameters for recognition.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.195-198
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• 2002

We propose an efficient mixture Gaussian synthesis method for decision tree based state tying that produces better context-dependent models in a short period of training time. This method makes it possible to handle mixture Gaussian HMMs in decision tree based state tying algorithm, and provides higher recognition performance compared to the conventional HMM training procedure using decision tree based state tying on single Gaussian GMMs. This method also reduces the steps of HMM training procedure. We applied this method to training of PBS, and we expect to achieve a little point improvement in phoneme accuarcy and reduction in training time.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.29 no.A
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• pp.95-100
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• 2009

In this paper, we implemented a speaker-independent speech recognizer using the TMS320F28335 DSP which is optimized for control applications. For this implementation, we used a small-sized commercial DSP module and developed a peripheral board including a codec, signal conditioning circuits and I/O interfaces. The speech signal digitized by the TLV320AIC23 codec is analyzed based on MFCC feature extraction methed and recognized using the continuous-density HMM. Thanks to the internal SRAM and flash memory on the TMS320F28335 DSP, we did not need any external memory devices. The internal flash memory contains ADPCM data for voice response as well as HMM data. Since the TMS320F28335 DSP is optimized for control applications, the recognizer may play a good role in the voice-activated control areas in aspect that it can integrate speech recognition capability and inherent control functions into the single DSP.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.27 no.A
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• pp.211-218
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• 2007

As demands for interaction of humans and robots are increasing, robots are expected to be equipped with intelligibility which humans have. Especially, for natural communication, hearing capabilities are so essential that speech recognition technology for robot is getting more important. In this paper, we implement a speech recognizer suitable for robot applications. One of the major problem in robot speech recognition is poor speech quality captured when a speaker talks distant from the microphone a robot is mounted with. To cope with this problem, we used wireless transmission of commands recognized by the speech recognizer implemented using TMS320VC5510 DSK. In addition, as for implementation, since TMS320VC5510 DSP is a fixed-point device, we represent efficient realization of HMM algorithm using fixed-point arithmetic.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.37-42
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• 2010

Final year students are normally encountering high pressing in their study. In view of this fact, this research focuses on determining mental states condition of college student in final year based on the psycho-physiological information. The experiments were conducted in two times, i.e., prior- and post- graduation seminar examination. The early results indicated that the student profile of mood states (POMS) in prior final graduation seminar showed higher scores than students in post final graduation seminar. Thus, in this research, relation between biosignal representing by heart rate variability (HRV) and questionnaire responses were evaluated by hidden Markov model (HMM) and neural networks (NN).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.176-179
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose the new method that separate the existing common VQ code book into two parts, one is the common VQ code book which is the half of existing common VQ code book, another is the personal speaker VQ code book which accommodate the personal speaker characteristic, variation to improve the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system using discrete HMM. We apply the propose method m this paper to the text-dependent speaker verification system using discrete HMM and have the improvement performance of about 0.24% compared to existing method