• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.155-161
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• 2013

PURPOSES: This study is to develop a road traffic sign recognition and automatic positioning for road facility management. METHODS: In this study, we installed the GPS, IMU, DMI, camera, laser sensor on the van and surveyed the car position, fore-sight image, point cloud of traffic signs. To insert automatic position of traffic sign, the automatic traffic sign recognition S/W developed and it can log the traffic sign type and approximate position, this study suggests a methodology to transform the laser point-cloud to the map coordinate system with the 3D axis rotation algorithm. RESULTS: Result show that on a clear day, traffic sign recognition ratio is 92.98%, and on cloudy day recognition ratio is 80.58%. To insert exact traffic sign position. This study examined the point difference with the road surveying results. The result RMSE is 0.227m and average is 1.51m which is the GPS positioning error. Including these error we can insert the traffic sign position within 1.51m CONCLUSIONS: As a result of this study, we can automatically survey the traffic sign type, position data of the traffic sign position error and analysis the road safety, speed limit consistency, which can be used in traffic sign DB.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.768-775
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• 2005

For sign languages are main communication means among hearing-impaired people, there are communication difficulties between speaking-oriented people and sign-language-oriented people. Automated sign-language recognition may resolve these communication problems. In sign languages, finger spelling is used to spell names and words that are not listed in the dictionary. There have been research activities for gesture and posture recognition using glove-based devices. However, these devices are often expensive, cumbersome, and inadequate for recognizing elaborate finger spelling. Use of colored patches or gloves also cause uneasiness. In this paper, a vision-based finger spelling recognition system is introduced. In our method, captured hand region images were separated from the background using a skin detection algorithm assuming that there are no skin-colored objects in the background. Then, hand postures were recognized using a two-dimensional grid analysis method. Our recognition system is not sensitive to the size or the rotation of the input posture images. By optimizing the weights of the posture features using a genetic algorithm, our system achieved high accuracy that matches other systems using devices or colored gloves. We applied our posture recognition system for detecting Korean Sign Language, achieving better than $93\%$ accuracy.

• 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.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.696-703
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a walking guidance system for the visually impaired for use at subway stations. This system, which is based on environmental knowledge, automatically detects and recognizes both exit numbers and arrow signs from natural outdoor scenes. The visually impaired can, therefore, utilize the system to find their own way (for example, using exit numbers and the directions provided) through a subway station. The proposed walking guidance system consists mainly of three stages: (a) sign detection using the MCT-based AdaBoost technique, (b) sign recognition using support vector machines and hidden Markov models, and (c) three verification techniques to discriminate between signs and non-signs. The experimental results indicate that our sign recognition system has a high performance with a detection rate of 98%, a recognition rate of 99.5%, and a false-positive error rate of 0.152.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.252-263
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• 2016

Road sign is an important street furniture that gives some information such as road conditions, driving direction and condition for a driver. Thus, road sign is a major target of image recognition for self-driving car, ADAS(autonomous vehicle and intelligent driver assistance systems), and ITS(intelligent transport systems). In this paper, an enhanced road sign recognition system is proposed for MMS(Mobile Mapping System) using the single camera and GPS. For the proposed system, first, a road sign recognition scheme is proposed. this scheme is composed of detection and classification step. In the detection step, object candidate regions are extracted in image frames using hybrid road sign detection scheme that is based on color and shape features of road signs. And, in the classification step, the area of candidate regions and road sign template are compared. Second, a Geo-marking scheme for geo-content that is consist of road sign image and coordinate value is proposed. If the serious situation such as car accident is happened, this scheme can protect geographical information of road sign against illegal users. By experiments with test video set, in the three parts that are road sign recognition, coordinate value estimation and geo-marking, it is confirmed that proposed schemes can be used for MMS in commercial area.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1088-1095
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• 2009

In this paper, we describe the reorientation method of distorted road sign by using projection transformation for improving recognition rate of road sign. RSR (Road Sign Recognition) is one of the most important topics for implementing driver assistance in intelligent transportation systems using pattern recognition and vision technology. The RS (Road Sign) includes direction of road or place name, and intersection for obtaining the road information. We acquire input images from mounted camera on vehicle. However, the road signs are often appeared with rotation, skew, and distortion by perspective camera. In order to obtain the correct road sign overcoming these problems, projection transformation is used to transform from 4 points of image coordinate to 4 points of world coordinate. The 4 vertices points are obtained using the trajectory as the distance from the mass center to the boundary of the object. Then, the candidate areas of road sign are transformed from distorted image by using homography transformation matrix. Internal information of reoriented road signs is segmented with arrow and the corresponding indicated place name. Arrow area is the largest labeled one. Also, the number of group of place names equals to that of arrow heads. Characters of the road sign are segmented by using vertical and horizontal histograms, and each character is recognized by using SAD (Sum of Absolute Difference). From the experiments, the proposed method has shown the higher recognition results than the image without reorientation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.1375-1378
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• 1997

In this paper, we presents the algorithm which is to recognize the traffic sign on the road the traffic signal in a video image for autonomous navigation. First, the rocognition of traffic sign on the road can be detected using boundary point estimation form some scan-lines within the lane deducted. For this algorithm, index matrix method is used to detemine what sign is. Then, the traffic signal recognition is performed by usign the window minified by several scan-lines which position may be expected. For this algoritm, line profile concept is adopted.

• 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.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2017

본 논문은 딥러닝 알고리즘을 기반으로 하여 시각장애인을 위한 표지판을 검출하고 인식하는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 크게 표지판 검출 단계와 표지판 인식 단계로 나눠지는데 표지판 검출 단계에서는 영상에서 응집 채널 특징을 추출한 뒤 아다부스트 분류기를 적용하여 표지판 관심영역을 검출하였고, 표지판 인식 단계에서는 검출한 표지판 관심영역들에 합성곱 신경망을 적용하여 어떤 표지판인지 인식하였다. 본 논문에서는 미검출된 표지판의 개수가 최대한 감소하도록 아다부스트 분류기를 설계하였고, 딥러닝 알고리즘을 사용하여 인식 정확도를 높임으로써 검출 단계에서 발생한 양성 오류들을 제거시켰다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법의 양성 오류 개수가 다른 방법들의 양성 오류 개수보다 효과적으로 감소했음을 확인하였다.

• 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.