• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.167-170
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 화장품의 효율적 구매를 위한 화장품 성분표를 분석하고 정보를 전달하는 기능의 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템에서는 화장품 성분표에 최적화시킨 OCR (Optical Character Recognition) 모델을 사용해 화장품 성분표를 촬영한 영상에서 인식한 문자 데이터를 추출한다. 이 문자 데이터를 통해 얻은 화장품 성분이 사용자 피부 유형에 적합한지 구축된 데이터베이스와의 비교를 통해 소비자에게 최종 전달된다. 200개의 화장품 성분표 영상을 사용해 제안하는 화장품 성분표 분석 모델의 성능을 평가한 결과 80.348%의 정확도를 보였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.13-20
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• 2016

It is possible to implement an optical character recognition system using a high-resolution camera mounted on smart phones in the modern society. Further, characters extracted from the implemented application is possible to provide the voice service for the visually impaired person by using TTS. But, it is difficult for the visually impaired person to properly shoot the objects that character information are included, because it is very hard to accurately understand the current state of the object. In this paper, we propose a method of inducing an appropriate shooting for the visually impaired persons by using a smartphone gyro sensor. As a result of simulation using the implemented program, we were able to see that it is possible to recognize the more character from the same object using the proposed method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.53-63
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• 2019

To provide a hand gesture interface through deep learning in mobile environments, research on the light-weighting of networks is essential for high recognition rates while at the same time preventing degradation of execution speed. This paper proposes a method of real-time recognition of written characters in the air using a finger on mobile devices through the light-weighting of deep-learning model. Based on the SSD (Single Shot Detector), which is an object detection model that utilizes MobileNet as a feature extractor, it detects index finger and generates a result text image by following fingertip path. Then, the image is sent to the server to recognize the characters based on the learned OCR model. To verify our method, 12 users tested 1,000 words using a GALAXY S10+ and recognized their finger with an average accuracy of 88.6%, indicating that recognized text was printed within 124 ms and could be used in real-time. Results of this research can be used to send simple text messages, memos, and air signatures using a finger in mobile environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.01a
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• pp.209-212
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• 2017

최근 정보통신기술의 비약적 발전에 따라 문서 제작 과정 또한 디지털 방식의 형태가 주를 이루게 되었다. 하지만 이와 더불어 문서를 통한 개인 정보 유출의 문제 또한 대두되게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 이미지 형식의 문서의 유출 방지를 위해 광학문자인식(OCR)을 활용한 문자인식 기능과 개인정보 검출 기능을 통합적으로 수행 한하여 기존 OCR엔진과의 차별점을 두었다. 또한 원하는 경로의 파일 탐색을 가능하도록 하고, 선택한 경로에 저장되어 있는 이미지파일 내의 검출 문자들을 정규표현식을 사용해 특정한 개인정보 패턴과 매칭하여 문서 내 포함된 개인정보를 반환하여 출력한다. 이러한 개인정보 검출 결과 중요 개인정보가 포함된 파일을 사용자에게 별도로 통보하도록 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존의 개인정보 검출 과정의 번거로움을 극복하여 사용자의 편의 향상과 더불어 문서를 통한 개인정보의 유출을 사전에 방지 할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.29-41
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• 2022

Alien species cause problems in various ecosystems, reduce biodiversity, and destroy ecosystems. Due to these problems, the problem of a management plan is increasing, and it is difficult to accurately identify each individual and calculate the number of individuals, especially when researching alien turtle species such as GPS and PIT based on capture. this study intends to conduct an individual recognition study using a UAV. Recently, UAVs can take various sensor-based photos and easily obtain high-definition image data at low altitudes. Therefore, based on previous studies, this study investigated five variables to be considered in UAV flights and produced a test paper using them. OCR was used to monitor the displayed turtles using the manufactured test paper, and this confirmed the recognition rate. As a result, the use of yellow numbers showed the highest recognition rate. In addition, the minimum threat distance was confirmed to be 3 to 6m, and turtles with a shell size of 6 to 8cm were also identified during the flight. Therefore, we tried to propose an object recognition methodology for turtle display text using OCR, and it is expected to be used as a new turtle monitoring technique.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2021

The conventional credit card number recognition system generally needs a card to be placed in a designated location before its processing, which is not an ideal user experience especially for people with visual impairment. To improve the user experience, this paper proposes a novel algorithm that can automatically detect the location of a credit card number based on the fact that a group of sixteen digits has a fixed aspect ratio. The proposed algorithm first performs morphological operations to obtain multiple candidates of the credit card number with >4:1 aspect ratio, then recognizes the card number by testing each candidate via OCR and BIN matching techniques. Implemented with OpenCV and Firebase ML, the proposed scheme achieves 77.75% accuracy in the credit card number recognition task.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2004

In this paper, a new character segmentation algorithm of machine printed character recognition is proposed. The new approach of the proposed character segmentation algorithm overcomes the weak points of both feature-based approaches and recognition-based approaches in character segmentation. This paper defines side profiles of touching characters. The character segmentation algorithm gives a candidate single character in touching characters by side profiles, without any help of character recognizer. It segments touching characters and decides the candidate single character by side profiles. This paper also defines cutting cost, which makes the proposed character segmentation find an optimal segmenting path. The performance of the proposed character segmentation algorithm in this paper has been obtained using a real envelope reader system, which can recognize addresses in U.S. mail pieces and sort the mail pieces. 3359 mail pieces were tested. The improvement was from $68.92\%\;to\;80.08\%$ by the proposed character segmentation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.693-695
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose the improvement of Hangul OCR accuracy through deep learning. OCR is a program that senses printed and handwritten characters in an optical way and encodes them digitally. In the case of the most commonly used Tesseract OCR, the accuracy of English recognition is high. However, Hangul has lower accuracy because it has less learning data for a complex structure. Therefore, in this study, we propose a method to improve the accuracy of Hangul OCR by extracting the character region from the desired image through image processing and using deep learning using it as learning data. It is expected that OCR, which has been developed only by existing alphanumeric and several languages, can be applied to various languages.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.57-62
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• 2014

This paper proposes a new optical recognition method of credit card numbers. Firstly, the proposed method segments numbers from the input image of a credit card. It uses the significant differences of standard deviations between the foreground numbers and the background. Secondly, the method extracts gradient features from the segmented numbers. The gradient features are defined as four directions of grayscale pixels for 16 regions of an input number. Finally, it utilizes an artificial neural network classifier that uses an error back-propagation algorithm. The proposed method is implemented using C language in an embedded Linux system for a high-speed real-time image processing. Experiments were conducted by using real credit card images. The results show that the proposed algorithm is quite successful for most credit cards. However, the method fails in some credit cards with strong background patterns.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.161-170
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• 2019

Multi-product mass production small and medium enterprise factories have a wide variety of products and a large number of products, wasting manpower and expenses for inventory management. In addition, there is no way to check the status of inventory in real time, and it is suffering economic damage due to excess inventory and shortage of stock. There are many ways to build a real-time data collection environment, but most of them are difficult to afford for small and medium-sized companies. Therefore, smart factories of small and medium enterprises are faced with difficult reality and it is hard to find appropriate countermeasures. In this paper, we implemented the contents of extension of existing inventory management method through character extraction on label with barcode and QR code, which are widely adopted as current product management technology, and evaluated the effect. Technically, through preprocessing using OpenCV for automatic recognition and classification of stock labels and barcodes, which is a method for managing input and output of existing products through computer image processing, and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function of Google vision API. And it is designed to recognize the barcode through Zbar. We propose a method to manage inventory by real-time image recognition through Raspberry Pi without using expensive equipment.