• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.219-226
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• 2016

In our general life, what we recognize information with our human eyes and use it is diverse and massive. But even the current technologies improved by artificial intelligence are exorbitantly deficient comparing to human visual processing ability. Nevertheless, many researchers are trying to get information in everyday life, especially concentrate effort on recognizing information consisted of text. In the fields of recognizing text, to extract the text from the general document is used in some information processing fields, but to extract and recognize the text from real image is deficient too much yet. It is because the real images have many properties like color, size, orientation and something in common. In this paper, we applies an adaptive edge enhanced MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) to extract the text area in those diverse environments and the scene text, and show that the proposed method is a comparatively nice method with experiments.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.1
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• pp.142-149
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• 2016

This paper proposes a method to detect LP(License Plate) of vehicles in indoor and outdoor parking lots. In restricted environment, there are many conventional methods for detecting LP. But, it is difficult to detect LP in natural and complex scenes with background clutters because several patterns similar with text or LP always exist in complicated backgrounds. To verify the performance of LP text detection in natural images, we apply MB-LGP feature by combining with ensemble machine learning algorithm in purpose of selecting optimal features of small number in huge pool. The feature selection is performed by adaptive boosting algorithm that shows great performance in minimum false positive detection ratio and in computing time when combined with cascade approach. MSER is used to provide initial text regions of vehicle LP. Throughout the experiment using real images, the proposed method functions robustly extracting LP in natural scene as well as the controlled environment.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.174-184
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• 2016

Information identification with image data by means of low-level visual features has evolved as a challenging research domain. Conventional text-based mapping of image data has been gradually replaced by content-based techniques of image identification. Feature extraction from image content plays a crucial role in facilitating content-based detection processes. In this paper, the authors have proposed four different techniques for multiview feature extraction from images. The efficiency of extracted feature vectors for content-based image classification and retrieval is evaluated by means of fusion-based and data standardization-based techniques. It is observed that the latter surpasses the former. The proposed methods outclass state-of-the-art techniques for content-based image identification and show an average increase in precision of 17.71% and 22.78% for classification and retrieval, respectively. Three public datasets - Wang; Oliva and Torralba (OT-Scene); and Corel - are used for verification purposes. The research findings are statistically validated by conducting a paired t-test.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.27-33
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• 2014

This paper proposes a gradation image processing method for the development of a Road Sign Recognition Platform (RReP), which aims to facilitate the rapid and accurate management and surveying of approximately 160,000 road signs installed along the highways, national roadways, and local roads in the cities, districts (gun), and provinces (do) of Korea. RReP is based on GPS(Global Positioning System), IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit), INS(Inertial Navigation System), DMI(Distance Measurement Instrument), and lasers, and uses an imagery information collection/classification module to allow the automatic recognition of signs, the collection of shapes, pole locations, and sign-type data, and the creation of road sign registers, by extracting basic data related to the shape and sign content, and automated database design. Image division and merging, which were applied in this study, produce superior results compared with local binarization method in terms of speed. At the results, larger texts area were found in images, the accuracy of text recognition was improved when images had been gradated. Multi-threshold values of natural scene images are used to improve the extraction rate of texts and figures based on pattern recognition.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.139-142
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• 2006

본 연구는 장면 이미지로부터 텍스트에 존재하는 문자-에지 특징을 이용하여 텍스트를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 캐니(Canny)에지 연산자를 이용하여 장면 이미지로부터 에지를 추출하고, 추출된 에지로부터 16종류의 에지-맵 생성한다. 생성된 에지 맵을 재구성하여 문자 특징을 갖는 8종류의 문자-에지 맵을 만단다. 텍스트는 배경과 잘 분리되는 특징이 있으므로 텍스트에 존재하는 '문자-에지 맵'의 특징을 이용하여 텍스트를 추출한다. 텍스트 영역에 대한 검증은 문자-에지 맵의 분포와 텍스트에 존재하는 글자간의 공백 특징으로 한다. 제안한 방법은 다양한 종류의 장면 이미지를 실험대상으로 하였고, 텍스트는 적어도 2글자 이상으로 구성된다는 제한조건과 너무 크거나 작은 텍스트는 텍스트 추출에서 제외하였다. 실험결과 텍스트 영역 추출률은 약 83%를 얻었다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.61-68
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a method of character detection by analyzing image enhancement and character type to detect characters in natural images that can be acquired in everyday life. The proposed method emphasizes the boundaries of the object part using the unsharp mask in order to improve the detection rate of the area to be recognized as a character in a natural image. By using the boundary of the enhanced object, the character candidate region of the image is detected using Maximal Stable Extermal Regions (MSER). In order to detect the region to be judged as a real character in the detected character candidate region, the shape of each region is analyzed and the non-character region other than the region having the character characteristic is removed to increase the detection rate of the actual character region. In order to compare the objective test of this paper, we compare the detection rate and the accuracy of the character region with the existing methods. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the detection rate and accuracy of the character region over the existing character detection method.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.479-488
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• 2002

In recent years the amount of digital video used has risen dramatically to keep pace with the increasing use of the Internet and consequently an automated method is needed for indexing digital video databases. Textual information, both superimposed and embedded scene texts, appearing in a digital video can be a crucial clue for helping the video indexing. In this paper, a new method is presented to extract both superimposed and embedded scene texts in a freeze-frame of news video. The algorithm is summarized in the following three steps. For the first step, a color image is converted into a gray-level image and applies contrast stretching to enhance the contrast of the input image. Then, a modified local adaptive thresholding is applied to the contrast-stretched image. The second step is divided into three processes: eliminating text-like components by applying erosion, dilation, and (OpenClose+CloseOpen)/2 morphological operations, maintaining text components using (OpenClose+CloseOpen)/2 operation with a new Geo-correction method, and subtracting two result images for eliminating false-positive components further. In the third filtering step, the characteristics of each component such as the ratio of the number of pixels in each candidate component to the number of its boundary pixels and the ratio of the minor to the major axis of each bounding box are used. Acceptable results have been obtained using the proposed method on 300 news images with a recognition rate of 93.6%. Also, my method indicates a good performance on all the various kinds of images by adjusting the size of the structuring element.