• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.30B no.9
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• pp.84-93
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• 1993

Recently, several nonlinear shape normalization methods have been proposed in order to compensate for the shape distortions in handwritten characters. In this paper, we review these nonlinear shape normalization methods from the two points of view : feature projection and feature density equalization. The former makes feature projection histogram by projecting a certain feature at each point of input image into horizontal-or vertical-axis and the latter equalizes the feature densities of input image by re-sampling the feature projection histogram. A systematic comparison of these methods has been made based on the following criteria: recognition rate, processing speed, computational complexity and measure of variation. Then, we present the result of quantitative evaluation of each method based on these criteria for a large variety of handwritten Hangul syllables.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.7-20
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a two-step noise compensation algorithm in feature extraction for achieving robust speech recognition. The proposed method frees us from requiring a priori information on noisy environments and is simple to implement. First, in frequency domain, the Harmonics-based Spectral Subtraction (HSS) is applied so that it reduces the additive background noise and makes the shape of harmonics in speech spectrum more pronounced. We then apply a judiciously weighted variance Feature Vector Normalization (FVN) to compensate for both the channel distortion and additive noise. The weighted variance FVN compensates for the variance mismatch in both the speech and the non-speech regions respectively. Representative performance evaluation using Aurora 2 database shows that the proposed method yields 27.18% relative improvement in accuracy under a multi-noise training task and 57.94% relative improvement under a clean training task.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.31-39
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• 2018

This paper aims to present a taxonomy of non-standard words (NSW) for developing a French text normalization system and to propose a method for evaluating this system based on a corpus. The proposed taxonomy of French NSWs consists of 13 categories, including 2 types of letter-based categories and 9 types of number-based categories. In order to evaluate the text normalization system, a representative test set including NSWs from various text domains, such as news, literature, non-fiction, social-networking services (SNSs), and transcriptions, is constructed, and an evaluation equation is proposed reflecting the distribution of the NSW categories of the target domain to which the system is applied. The error rate of the test set is 1.64%, while the error rate of the whole corpus is 2.08%, reflecting the NSW distribution in the corpus. The results show that the literature and SNS domains are assessed as having higher error rates compared to the test set.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.2690-2701
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• 2013

Humans are able to recognize small number of people they know well by the way they walk. This ability represents basic motivation for using human gait as the means for biometric identification. Such biometric can be captured at public places from a distance without subject's collaboration, awareness or even consent. Although current approaches give encouraging results, we are still far from effective use in practical applications. In general, methods set various constraints to circumvent the influence factors like changes of view, walking speed, capture environment, clothing, footwear, object carrying, that have negative impact on recognition results. In this paper we investigate the influence of walking speed variation to different visual based gait recognition approaches and propose normalization based on geometric transformations, which mitigates its influence on recognition results. With the evaluation on MoBo gait dataset we demonstrate the benefits of using such normalization in combination with different types of gait recognition approaches.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.629-633
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• 2001

In this paper, we improve noise tolerance in image classification by combining ICA(Independent Component Analysis) with Normalization. When we add noise to the raw image data the degree of noise tolerance becomes N(0, 0.4) for PCA and N(0, 0.53) for ICA. However, when we use the preprocessing approach the degree of noise tolerance after Normalization becomes N(0, 0.75), which shows the improvement of noise tolerance in classification.

• 한국어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.76-81
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• 2017

외국어로 구성된 용어를 발음에 기반하여 자국의 언어로 표기하는 것을 음차 표기라 한다. 국가 간의 경계가 허물어짐에 따라, 외국어에 기원을 두는 용어를 설명하기 위해 뉴스 등 다양한 웹 문서에서는 동일한 발음을 가지는 외국어 표기와 한국어 표기를 혼용하여 사용하고 있다. 이에 좋은 검색 결과를 가져오기 위해서는 외국어 표기와 더불어 사람들이 많이 사용하는 다양한 음차 표기를 함께 검색에 활용하는 것이 중요하다. 음차 표기 모델과 음차 표기 대역 쌍 추출을 통해 음차 표현을 생성하는 기존 방법 대신, 본 논문에서는 신뢰할 수 있는 다양한 음차 표현을 찾기 위해 문서에서 음차 표기 후보를 찾고, 이 음차 표기 후보가 정확한 표기인지 판별하는 방식을 제안한다. 다양한 딥러닝 모델을 비교, 검토하여 최종적으로 음차 표기 대역 쌍 판별에 특화된 모델인 Distance LSTM-CNN 모델을 제안하며, 제안하는 모델의 Batch Size 영향을 줄이고 학습 시 수렴 속도 개선을 위해 Layer Normalization을 적용하는 방법을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.646-649
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• 2004

LiDAR(Light Detection and Ranging) system can record intensity data as well as range data. Recently, LiDAR intensity data is widely used for landcover classification, ancillary data of feature extraction, vegetation species identification, and so on. Since the intensity return value is associated with several factors, same features is not consistent for same flight or multiple flights. This paper investigated correlation between intensity and range data. Once the effects of range was determined, the single flight line normalization and the multiple flight line normalization was performed by an empirical function that was derived from relationship between range and return intensity

• Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.123-134
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• 2005

Confidence measure (CM) is used for the rejection of mis-recognized words in an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. Rahim, Lee, Juang and Cho's confidence measure (RLJC-CM) is one of the widely-used CMs [1]. The RLJC-CM is calculated by averaging phone-level CMs. An extension of the RLJC-CM was achieved by Kim et al [2]. They devised the normalized CM (NCM), which is a statistically normalized version of the RLJC-CM by using the tri-phone based CM normalization. In this paper we verify the NCM by generalizing tri-phone to n-phone unit. To apply various units for the normalization, mono-phone, tri-phone, quin-phone and $\infty$-phone are tested. By the experiments in the domain of the isolated word recognition we show that tri-phone based normalization is sufficient enough to enhance the rejection performance of the ASR system. Also we explain the NCM in regard to two class pattern classification problems.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.91-94
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• 2005

The performance of speech recognition is degraded by the mismatch between training and test environments. Many methods have been presented to compensate for additive noise and channel effect in the cepstral domain, and Cepstral Mean Subtraction (CMS) is the representative method among them. Recently, high order cepstral moment normalization method has introduced to improve recognition accuracy. In this paper, we apply high order moment normalization method and smoothing filter for real-time processing. In experiments using Aurora2 DB, we obtained error rate reduction of 49.7% with the proposed algorithm in comparison with baseline system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.3
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• pp.24-30
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• 1995

The process of conventional floating-point additio $n_traction operation consists of alignment, additio $n_traction, normalization, and rounding stage. Because rounding stage needs an incrementor or adder, it occupies much time and chip area. In addition, it needs additional time and hardware for renormalization which occurs in overflow due to rounding In this paper, floating-point adde $r_tractor performing rounding and additio $n_traction in parallel is presented by using the feature of additio $n_traction and carry select adder used in additio $n_tracting stage. Proposed floating point adde $r_tractor doesn't need time and incrementor nor adder for rounding. Also, renormalization doesn't occur since rounding is performed prior to normalization.to normalization.