• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.193-200
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• 2019

Hearing impaired people are living in a voice culture area, but due to the difficulty of communicating with normal people using sign language, many people experience discomfort in daily life and social life and various disadvantages unlike their desires. Therefore, in this paper, we study a sign language translation system for communication between a normal person and a hearing impaired person using sign language and implement a prototype system for this. Previous studies on sign language translation systems for communication between normal people and hearing impaired people using sign language are classified into two types using video image system and shape input device. However, existing sign language translation systems have some problems that they do not recognize various sign language expressions of sign language users and require special devices. In this paper, we use machine learning method of artificial neural network to recognize various sign language expressions of sign language users. By using generalized smart phone and various video equipment for sign language image recognition, we intend to improve the usability of sign language translation system.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.243-248
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• 2006

간판인식은 관광지의 간판을 자동 인식하여 외국인 또는 외지인에게 편리한 관광 정보제공을 목적으로 연구되고 있다. 간판 인식 연구에서는 인식기의 훈련과 객관적인 성능 측정을 위해 간판영상 데이터베이스가 필수적이다. 이 논문은 전주 한옥마을을 대상으로 수집한 간판영상 데이터베이스에 대해 기술한다. 총 45개의 서로 다른 간판에 대해 각각 50개씩 영상을 다양한 조건에서 획득하였다. 이 데이터베이스는 패턴 인식 분야 연구를 위한 중요한 콘텐츠 이다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.133-142
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• 2019

The existing auxiliary communicating aids for the hearing-impaired have an inconvenience of using additional expensive sensing devices. This paper presents a hand image detection based algorithm to interpret the sign language of the hearing-impaired. The proposed sign language recognition system exploits the hand image only captured by the camera without using any additional gloves with extra sensors. Based on the hand image processing, the system can perfectly classify several numeric sign language representations. This work proposes a simple lightweight classification algorithm to identify the hand image of the hearing-impaired to communicate with others even further in an environment of complex background. Experimental results show that the proposed system can interpret the numeric sign language quite well with an accuracy of 95.6% on average.

• 복식
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• 제38권
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• pp.101-122
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to define the fundamentals of one symbolic concept, so calles vestment-sign, based on the logical relationship of sign system about the trichotomy by charles S. Peice's sign concept for the communication system of meaning in the non-linguistic image domain. To prove the argument of vestment-sign, I selected 3 type of vestment language by styliste, Elsa Schiaparel-li. The third image vestmental chosen here, titled“Larme-Illusion(1938)”,printed by Salvad-or Dali will produce one symbolic proposition as a logical result which is generated and developed through the interpretation of other images. First of all the text, which is manifested by Elsa Schiaparelli's first image vestmental, tit-led“Notation Musical(1937)”and is symbolized as one category in the representation of the form, is regarded symbolic and metaphorical from a standpoint that the title and the meaning is connected to the form. The second image vestment, titled“Ruches Noirs(1938)”represents externally splendid feminity man-ifested by the symbolic and metaphorical expression. And the purity of sensitivity aiming to humanity in the detail of the poetic feeling of naturalism makes us imagine the battle fild of furious sensitivity. Like as the result of the battle, the third image stimulated our eyesight with the“absence”of dressing function. The proposition of the text,《Death》which the third image delivers, constructs sign system to bring up a meaning with the disappearance of physical“signifier”. This establishment of the symbolic concept presents the etymological authority of symbol generation called“Design”.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.233-237
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• 2013

이미지 인식은 패턴인식의 중요한 한 연구 분야이다. 본 논문은 이미지 세그멘테이션 알고리즘을 소개하고, 이의 응용으로 도로 Sign 인식시스템에 적용하여 그 결과를 고찰하였다. 본 논문에서, 우리는 이미지 프로세싱 기술의 도움으로 도로 Sign 의 체계적인 연구를 하였고, 이에 해당하는 알고리즘을 만들었다. 도로 Sign을 인식하기 위하여, 본 논문은 이미지 세그멘테이션 알고리즘 파트와 이미지 인식파트의 두 부분으로 나누어서 기술하였다. 인식실험은 도로 Sign 인식 알고리즘 모델이 스마트 폰에 유용하게 사용될 것과, 그 외 여러분야에 사용될 수 있음을 보여 준다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제13권2호
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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.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2000

In this paper, a vision-based roadway detection algorithm for an automated vehicle control system, based on roadway sign information on roads, is proposed. First, in order to detect roadway signs, the color scene image is enhanced under hue-invariance. Fuzzy logic is employed to simplify the enhanced color image into a binary image and the binary image is morphologically filtered. Then, an effective algorithm of locating signs based on binary rank order transform (BROT) is utilized to extract signs from the image. This algorithm performs better than those previously presented. Finally, the inner shapes of roadway signs with curving roadway direction information are recognized by neural networks. Experimental results show that the new detection algorithm is simple and robust, and performs well on real sign detection. The results also show that the neural networks used can exactly recognize the inner shapes of signs even for very noisy shapes.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2013

도로표지는 운전자들에게 유용한 정보들을 제공함으로서 안전하고 원활한 교통을 확보하기 위한 중요한 시설물이다. 도로표지를 체계적으로 관리하기 위해서는 도로표지 내용에 대한 DB구축이 필요하며 이를 위한 작업은 거의 수동으로 진행되고 있어 많은 시간과 비용이 소요된다. 본 연구에서는 도로표지 영상에서 방향정보를 자동으로 인식 추출하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 또한 OpenCV를 이용해 이를 구현하였으며 도로표지 영상에 적용하였다. 방향정보의 자동추출을 위해, 영상 개선, 영상 이진화, 방향지시 도형 영역 추출, 특징점 추출, 템플릿 영상정합 등의 영상처리 기법을 코딩하여 적용하였으며 이를 통해 방향정보 자동 인식의 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.378-383
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• 2012

This paper presents the implementation of an automatic road sign recognizer for an intelligent transport system. In this system, lists of road signs are processed with actions such as line segmentation, single sign segmentation, and storing an artificial sign in the database. The process of taking the video stream and extracting the road sign and storing in the database is called the road sign recognition. This paper presents a study on recognizing traffic sign patterns using a segmentation technique for the efficiency and the speed of the system. The image is converted from one scale to another scale such as RGB to grayscale or grayscale to binary. The images are pre-processed with several image processing techniques, such as threshold techniques, Gaussian filters, Canny edge detection, and the contour technique.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -3
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• pp.1662-1665
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• 2002

This paper proposes a novel semantic feature detection (SFD) method for real-time image transmission of sign language and finger spelling. We extract semantic information as an interlingua from input text by natural language processing, and then transmit the semantic feature detection, which actually is a parameterized action representation, to the 3-D articulated humanoid models prepared in each client in remote locations. Once the SFD is received, the virtual human will be animated by the synthesized SFD. The experimental results based on Japanese sign langauge and Chinese sign langauge demonstrate that this algorithm is effective in real-time image delivery of sign language and finger spelling.