• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.22-32
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• 2022

Optical character recognition is a primary technology required in different fields, including digitizing archival documents, industrial automation, automatic driving, video analytics, medicine, and financial institution, among others. It was created in 1928 using pattern matching, but with the advent of artificial intelligence, it has since evolved into a high-performance character recognition technology. Recently, methods for detecting curved text and characters existing in a complicated background are being studied. Additionally, deep learning models are being developed in a way to recognize texts in various orientations and resolutions, perspective distortion, illumination reflection and partially occluded text, complex font characters, and special characters and artistic text among others. This report reviews the recent deep learning-based text detection and recognition methods and their various applications.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2016

Although extensively developed, optical music recognition systems have mostly focused on musical symbols (notes, rests, etc.), while disregarding the chord symbols. The process becomes difficult when the images are distorted or slurred, although this can be resolved using optical character recognition systems. Moreover, the appearance of outliers (lyrics, dynamics, etc.) increases the complexity of the chord recognition. Therefore, we propose a new approach addressing these issues. After binarization, un-distortion, and stave and lyric removal of a musical image, a rule-based method is applied to detect the potential regions of chord symbols. Next, a lexicon-driven approach is used to optimally and simultaneously separate and recognize characters. The score that is returned from the recognition process is used to detect the outliers. The effectiveness of our system is demonstrated through impressive accuracy of experimental results on two datasets having a variety of resolutions.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.6-10
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• 2021

Recognition of characters printed or marked on the PCB components from images captured using cameras is an important task in PCB components inspection systems. Previous optical character recognition (OCR) of PCB components typically consists of two stages: character segmentation and classification of each segmented character. However, character segmentation often fails due to corrupted characters, low image contrast, etc. Thus, OCR without character segmentation is desirable and increasingly used via deep neural networks. Typical implementation based on deep neural nets without character segmentation includes convolutional neural network followed by recurrent neural network (RNN). However, one disadvantage of this approach is slow execution due to RNN layers. LPRNet is a segmentation-free character recognition network with excellent accuracy proved in license plate recognition. LPRNet uses a wide convolution instead of RNN, thus enabling fast inference. In this paper, LPRNet was adapted for recognizing characters printed on PCB components with fast execution and high accuracy. Initial training with synthetic images followed by fine-tuning on real text images yielded accurate recognition. This net can be further optimized on Intel CPU using OpenVINO tool kit. The optimized version of the network can be run in real-time faster than even GPU.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.651-658
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose methods for character recognition and classification for table items through deep learning. First, table areas are detected in a document image through CNN. After that, table areas are separated by separators such as vertical lines. The text in document is recognized through a neural network combined with CNN and RNN. To correct errors in the character recognition, multiple candidates for the recognized result are provided for a sentence which has low recognition accuracy.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.376-382
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• 2010

We propose a novel method to precisely detect car license plates by locating main characters, which are printed with large font size. The regions of the main characters are directly detected without detecting the plate region boundaries, so that license regions can be detected more precisely than by other existing methods. To generate a binary image, multiple thresholds are applied, and segmented regions are selected from multiple binarized images by a criterion of size and compactness. We do not employ any character matching methods, so that many candidates for main character groups are detected; thus, we use a neural network to reject non-main character groups from the candidates. The relation of the character regions and the intensity statistics are used as the input to the neural network for classification. The detection performance has been investigated on real images captured under various illumination conditions for 1000 vehicles. 980 plates were correctly detected, and almost all non-detected plates were so stained that their characters could not be isolated for character recognition. In addition, the processing time is fast enough for a commercial automatic license plate recognition system. Therefore, the proposed method can be used for recognition systems with high performance and fast processing.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 컴퓨터 비전의 분야 중 하나인 문자 인식에 관한 연구를 수행했다. 대표적인 문자인식 기법 중 하나인 광학식 문자 판독 기법의 경우 일정한 규격과 서식에서 벗어나게 되면 인식률이 떨어진다는 한계점이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 딥 러닝 기법을 적용해 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 한다. 또한 기존의 문자 인식 연구의 경우 대부분 영어 및 숫자 인식에 국한되어 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 한글 인식을 위한 딥 러닝 기반 문자 인식 알고리즘을 제시한다. 알고리즘은 1-NED 평가 방법에서 0.841의 점수를 얻었으며, 이는 영어 인식 결과와 비슷한 수치이다. 본 연구를 통해 딥 러닝 기반 한글 인식 알고리즘의 성능을 확인할 수 있으며, 이를 통해 향후 연구방향에 대해 제시한다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.225-234
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• 2019

Deep learning has become increasingly popular in both academic and industrial areas nowadays. Various domains including pattern recognition, Computer vision have witnessed the great power of deep neural networks. However, current studies on deep learning mainly focus on quality data sets with balanced class labels, while training on bad and imbalanced data set have been providing great challenges for classification tasks. We propose in this paper a method of data analysis-based data reduction techniques for selecting good and diversity data samples from a large dataset for a deep learning model. Furthermore, data sampling techniques could be applied to decrease the large size of raw data by retrieving its useful knowledge as representatives. Therefore, instead of dealing with large size of raw data, we can use some data reduction techniques to sample data without losing important information. We group PCB characters in classes and train deep learning on the ResNet56 v2 and SENet model in order to improve the classification performance of optical character recognition (OCR) character classifier.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.433-438
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 기계 서비스 부품 도면에서 숫자를 인식하기 위하여 입력 영상에 대한 전처리와 딥러닝 모델을 제안한다. 서비스 부품 도면의 숫자를 인식하는데 있는 지시선과 도형에 의한 오검출 또는 오인식을 개선하기 위하여 수학적 형태학 필터링 전처리를 한다. 숫자 인식을 위하여 VGG-16 모델을 축소 변형한 7 개의 계층을 가지는 VGG 모델을 적용함으로써 인식 성능을 개선한다. 서비스 부품 도면의 숫자 인식 실험 결과, 제안하는 방법이 인식률 95.57%, 정확도는 92.82%로 종래의 방법에 현저히 개선된 결과를 얻었다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2021

Recently, with the development of IT technology, unmanned systems are being introduced in many industrial fields, and one of the most important factors for introducing unmanned systems in the automobile field is vehicle licence plate recognition(VLPR). The existing VLPR algorithms are configured to use image processing for a specific type of license plate to divide individual areas of a character within the plate to recognize each character. However, as the number of Korean vehicle license plates increases, the law is amended, there are old-fashioned license plates, new license plates, and different types of plates are used for each type of vehicle. Therefore, it is necessary to update the VLPR system every time, which incurs costs. In this paper, we use an object detection algorithm to detect character regardless of the format of the vehicle license plate, and apply a handwritten Hangul recognition(HHR) algorithm to enhance the recognition accuracy of a single Hangul character, which is called a Hangul unit. Since Hangul unit is recognized by combining initial consonant, medial vowel and final consonant, so it is possible to use other Hangul units in addition to the 40 Hangul units used for the Korean vehicle license plate.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.117-140
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• 2013

Hindi is the most widely spoken language in India, with more than 300 million speakers. As there is no separation between the characters of texts written in Hindi as there is in English, the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems developed for the Hindi language carry a very poor recognition rate. In this paper we propose an OCR for printed Hindi text in Devanagari script, using Artificial Neural Network (ANN), which improves its efficiency. One of the major reasons for the poor recognition rate is error in character segmentation. The presence of touching characters in the scanned documents further complicates the segmentation process, creating a major problem when designing an effective character segmentation technique. Preprocessing, character segmentation, feature extraction, and finally, classification and recognition are the major steps which are followed by a general OCR. The preprocessing tasks considered in the paper are conversion of gray scaled images to binary images, image rectification, and segmentation of the document's textual contents into paragraphs, lines, words, and then at the level of basic symbols. The basic symbols, obtained as the fundamental unit from the segmentation process, are recognized by the neural classifier. In this work, three feature extraction techniques-: histogram of projection based on mean distance, histogram of projection based on pixel value, and vertical zero crossing, have been used to improve the rate of recognition. These feature extraction techniques are powerful enough to extract features of even distorted characters/symbols. For development of the neural classifier, a back-propagation neural network with two hidden layers is used. The classifier is trained and tested for printed Hindi texts. A performance of approximately 90% correct recognition rate is achieved.