• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.55-60
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• 2017

The pulmonary function test (PFT) is an essential data source for evaluating the effect of drugs on the lungs or the status of lung function. However, the numeric values of PFT cannot be easily used for clinical studies without labor-intensive manual efforts, because PFTs are usually recorded as image files. This study was aimed at constructing a de-identified, open-access PFT database with various clinical information. For constructing the PFT database, optical character recognition (OCR), regular expression, and the parsing technique were used to extract alphanumeric data from the PFT images in a Korean tertiary teaching hospital. This longitudinal observational database contains 413,000 measurements of PFT from 183,000 patients.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.31B no.5
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• pp.162-167
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• 1994

The binary image normalization method in image processing can be used in several fields, Especially, its high speed processing method and its hardware implmentation is more useful, A normalization process of each character in character recognition requires a lot of processing time. Therefore, the research was done as a part of high speed process of OCR (optical character reader) implementation as a pipeline structure with host computer in hardware to give temporal parallism. For normalization process, general purpose CPU,MC68000, was used to implement it. As a result of experiment, the normalization speed of the hardware is sufficient to implement high speed OCR which the recognition speed is over 140 characters per second.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.161-166
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• 2011

We present a fast algorithm for Korean text extraction and segmentation from subway signboards using smart phone sensors in order to minimize computational time and memory usage. The algorithm can be used as preprocessing steps for optical character recognition (OCR): binarization, text location, and segmentation. An image of a signboard captured by smart phone camera while holding smart phone by an arbitrary angle is rotated by the detected angle, as if the image was taken by holding a smart phone horizontally. Binarization is only performed once on the subset of connected components instead of the whole image area, resulting in a large reduction in computational time. Text location is guided by user's marker-line placed over the region of interest in binarized image via smart phone touch screen. Then, text segmentation utilizes the data of connected components received in the binarization step, and cuts the string into individual images for designated characters. The resulting data could be used as OCR input, hence solving the most difficult part of OCR on text area included in natural scene images. The experimental results showed that the binarization algorithm of our method is 3.5 and 3.7 times faster than Niblack and Sauvola adaptive-thresholding algorithms, respectively. In addition, our method achieved better quality than other methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.155-161
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• 2008

최근 들어 문서나 서류 등의 보관에 대한 중요성이 커짐에 따라 기존에 종이 형태로 관리하던 문서나 서류들을 편리하게 관리하기 위해 문서 전자화 시스템을 도입하고 있는 기업 및 기관들이 많아지고 있다. 과거에는 종이로 되어 있는 서류들을 전자화시키기 위해서 사람들이 해당 서류를 보고 컴퓨터에 데이터를 수작업으로 일일이 입력해야 하는 번거로움이 있었다. 현재는 이러한 번거로움을 줄이기 위해 문서나 서류를 스캔하고, 스캔한 이미지에서 광학문자 인식(OCR: Optical Character Recognition) 기술을 이용한 방법으로 종이 형태의 문서들을 전자화하고 있다. 그러나 OCR을 통해 문자 인식을 한 이후에도 인식된 전체 문서에서 필요한 부분과 필요하지 않은 부분을 일일이 수작업으로 분류해야 하는 번거로움이 있다는 것이 문제점으로 부각되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위해 문서 양식과 인식이 필요한 부분을 미리 지정해 놓고 문자 인식을 하는 방법 및 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 문자 인식 속도를 향상시키고 보다 정확한 문자 인식이 가능하게 하여, 전체적으로 문자 인식의 효율을 향상시킬 수 있을 것이다. 또한 대량의 정형화된 문서의 문자 인식에도 효과적일 것으로 기대한다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.113-120
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• 2020

Recently, the license plate OCR system has been commercialized in a variety of fields and preferred utilizing low-cost embedded systems using only cameras. This system has a high recognition rate of about 98% or more for the environments such as parking lots where non-vehicle is restricted; however, the environments where non-vehicle objects are not restricted, the recognition rate is about 50% to 70%. This low performance is due to the changes in the environment by non-vehicle objects in real-time situations that occur anomaly data which is similar to the license plates. In this paper, we implement the appropriate anomaly detection based on semi-supervised learning for the license plate OCR system in the real-time environment where the appearance of non-vehicle objects is not restricted. In the experiment, we compare systems which anomaly detection is not implemented in the preceding research with the proposed system in this paper. As a result, the systems which anomaly detection is not implemented had a recognition rate of 77%; however, the systems with the semi-supervised learning based on anomaly detection had 88% of recognition rate. Using the techniques of anomaly detection based on the semi-supervised learning was effective in detecting anomaly data and it was helpful to improve the recognition rate of real-time situations.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1329-1338
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• 2021

There are rarely effective methods to help visually impaired people when they want to know the expiration date of products excepted to only Braille. In this study, we developed an expiration date notification system based on YOLO and OCR for visually impaired people. The handicapped people can automatically know the expiration date of a specific product by using our system without the help of a caregiver, fast and accurately. The proposed system is worked by four different steps: (1) identification of a target product by scanning its barcode; (2) segmentation of an image area with the expiration date using YOLO; (3) classification of the expiration date by OCR: (4) notification of the expiration date by TTS. Our system showed an average classification accuracy of about 86.00% when blindfolded subjects used the proposed system in real-time. This result validates that the proposed system can be potentially used for visually impaired people.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.729-739
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• 2010

Due to the rapid development of mobile devices equipped with cameras, instant translation of any text seen in any context is possible. Mobile devices can serve as a translation tool by recognizing the texts presented in the captured scenes. Images captured by cameras will embed more external or unwanted effects which need not to be considered in traditional optical character recognition (OCR). In this paper, we segment a text image captured by mobile devices into individual single characters to facilitate OCR kernel processing. Before proceeding with character segmentation, text detection and text line construction need to be performed in advance. A novel character segmentation method which integrates touched character filters is employed on text images captured by cameras. In addition, periphery features are extracted from the segmented images of touched characters and fed as inputs to support vector machines to calculate the confident values. In our experiment, the accuracy rate of the proposed character segmentation system is 94.90%, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.01a
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• pp.21-22
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• 2021

사람들이 체중을 조절하고 건강을 관리하기 위한 방법 중 하루 영양소 섭취량을 조절이 있다. 현대 사회에선 가공식품의 섭취량이 증가함에 따라 자연스레 가공식품들의 영양소를 파악하고 기록하는 것도 중요한 문제가 되었다. 본 논문에서는 실제 가공 식품의 포장지에 인쇄되어있는 영양성분 표 이미지를 인식할 수 있는 OCR을 FOTS 기반으로 구현 및 실험을 진행하였다. 실제로 시중에서 파는 영양성분 표는 한글과 영어가 섞여 있기 때문에 한글을 인식하는 모델과 영어와 숫자를 인식하는 모델을 따로 학습한 뒤 생성하여 각 언어에 대한 인식률을 향상시켰다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.1273-1280
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• 1996

In order perform high accuracy recognition of text recognition systems, the recognized text must be processed through a post-processing stage using contextual information. We present a system that combines multiple knowledge sources to post-process the output of an optical character recognition(OCR) system. The multiple knowledge sources include characteristics of word, wrongly recognized types of Hangul characters, and Hangul word learning In this paper, the wrongly recognized characters which are made by OCR systems are collected and analyzed. We imput a Korean dictionary with approximately 15 0,000 words, and Korean language texts of Korean elementary/middle/high school. We found that only 10.7% words in Korean language texts of Korean elementary/middle /high school were used in a Korean dictionary. And we classified error types of Korean character recognition with OCR systems. For Hangul word learning, we utilized indexes of texts. With these multiple knowledge sources, we could predict a proper word in large candidate words.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.289-296
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• 2020

This study suggests a methodology for automatically extracting placing information from 2D reinforced concrete details drawings and generating a 3D reinforcement placing model to develop a mobile augmented reality for bar placing work. To make it easier for users to acquire placing information, it is suggested that users takes pictures of structural drawings using a camera built into a mobile device and extract placing information using vision recognition and the OCR(Optical Character Registration) tool. In addition, an augmented reality app is implemented using the game engine to allow users to automatically generate 3D reinforcement placing model and review the 3D models by superimposing them with real images. Details are described for application to the proposed methodology using the previously developed programming tools, and the results of implementing reinforcement augmented reality models for typical members at construction sites are reviewed. It is expected that the methodology presented as a result of application can be used for learning bar placing work or construction review.