• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.2312-2325
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a preprocessing method that it is to correct the distortion of text area in Korean signboard images as a preprocessing step to improve character recognition. Distorted perspective in recognizing of Korean signboard text may cause of the low recognition rate. The proposed method consists of four main steps and eight sub-steps: main step consists of potential vertical components detection, vertical components detection, text-boundary estimation and distortion correction. First, potential vertical line components detection consists of four steps, including edge detection for each connected component, pixel distance normalization in the edge, dominant-point detection in the edge and removal of horizontal components. Second, vertical line components detection is composed of removal of diagonal components and extraction of vertical line components. Third, the outline estimation step is composed of the left and right boundary line detection. Finally, distortion of the text image is corrected by bilinear transformation based on the estimated outline. We compared the changes in recognition rates of OCR before and after applying the proposed algorithm. The recognition rate of the distortion corrected signboard images is 29.63% and 21.9% higher at the character and the text unit than those of the original images.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제31B권6호
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• pp.91-103
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• 1994

As CAD systems are introduced in the filed of engineering design, the necessities for automatic drawing input are increased . In this paper, we propose a method for realizing automatic drawing input by separation of text regions and graphic regions, extraction of line vectors from graphic regions, and recognition of circular arcs and circles from line vectors. Sizes of isolated regions, on a drawing are used for separating text regions and graphic regions. Thinning and maximum allowable error method are used to extract line vectors. And geometric structures of line vectors are analyzed to recognize circular arcs and circles. By processing text regions and graphic regions separately, 30~40% of vector information can be reduced. Recognition of circular arcs and circles can increase the utilization of automatic drawing input function.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.31-34
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• 2003

In this paper, we describe a method for separating text lines in handwritten Korean address images. The most remarkable feature of the proposed method is to use a modified projection technique. named a partial projection technique. A projection based text line separation method which projects the whole address image in horizontal direction to find split points for text line separation cannot avoid failing separation in case of images with a little skew or overlap between vertically neighboring text lines. To overcome this problem, we have introduced a partial projection technique which splits an address image into a few partial address images to be equal width and then project them each horizontally. The experiment done with 989 handwritten Korean address images extracted from live mails shows the superiority of the proposed method. The correct text-line separation rate fir the testing images was about 91.5％.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2015

Many overlay texts are artificially superimposed on the broadcasting videos by humans. These texts provide additional information to the audiovisual content. Especially, the overlay text in news videos contains concise and direct description of the content. Therefore, it is most reliable clue for constructing a news video indexing system. To make the automatic person indexing of interview video in the TV news program, this paper proposes the method to only detect the name text line among the whole overlay texts in one frame. The experimental results on Korean television news videos show that the proposed framework efficiently detects the overlaid name text line.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.19-37
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• 1996

1950년대에서 1990년대까지의 정보검색 발전사를 연대별로 기술하였다. 1950년대에서는 후조합색인법과 KWIC방식을, 1960년대에서는 오프라인 시스템과 실험용 온라인시스템, 1970년대에서는 온라인시스템, 1980년대에서는 전문데이터베이스 온라인 인터페이스, 해외 데이터베이스의 이용 및 국내 온라인 시스템, 그리고 1990년대에서는 CD-ROM, 멀티미디어 및 하이퍼텍스트, 인터넷 등의 발전에 관하여 각각 기술하고 장래에 관하여 전망하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.359-362
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new feature-based text watermarking for the binary text image. The structure of specific characters from preprocessed text image are modified to embed watermark. Watermark message are embedded and detected by the following method; Hole line disconnect using the connectivity of the character containing a hole, Center line shift using the hole area and Differential encoding using difference of flippable score points. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to rotation and scaling distortion.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2012

In this paper, a novel text binarization is presented that can deal with some complex conditions, such as shadows, non-uniform illumination due to highlight or object projection, and messy backgrounds. To locate the target text region, a focus line is assumed to pass through a text region. Next, connected component analysis and stroke width estimation based on location information of the focus line is used to locate the bounding box of the text region, and each box of connected components. A series of classifications are applied to identify whether each CC(Connected component) is text or non-text. Also, a modified K-means clustering method based on an HCL color space is applied to reduce the color dimension. A text binarization procedure based on location of text component and seed color pixel is then used to generate the final result.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.660-667
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 필기 한글 문자열 영상에 대한 단어 분리 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 gap 의 크기 정보를 사용하여 단어를 분리하는데, 이때 gap은 문자열 영상을 수직방향으로 투영한 후 흰-런 (white-run)을 찾음으로써 구할 수 있다. 문자열 영상으로부터 얻어지는 gap들의 크기를 측정한 후, 각각의 gap을 단어와 단어사이에 존재하는 gap과 문자와 문자사이에 존재하는 gap 중 하나로 분류한다. 본 논문에서는 필기 영문 문자열의 단어 분리를 위해 제안된 기존의 세 가지 거리 척도를 채택하고 군집화에 기반한 세 가지 분류방법을 적용하여 한글 문자열의 단어 분리를 위한 최적의 조합을 선정하였다. 우편봉투 상에 작성된 주소열로부터 수작업으로 추출한 305 개의 문자열 영상을 사용하여 실험한 결과 BB(bounding box) 거리를 사용하여 순차적 군집 방법을 적용하는 경우 3 순위까지의 누적 단어 분리 성공률이 88.52% 로서 가장 우수한 성능을 보여 주었다. 또한 하나의 문자열 영상에 대한 단어 분리 속도는 약 0.05초이다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.30-38
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• 2012

Text extraction and binarization are the important pre-processing steps for text recognition. The performance of text binarization strongly related to the accuracy of recognition stage. In our proposed method, the first stage based on line detection and shape feature analysis applied to locate the position of a business card and detect the shape from the complex environment. In the second stage, several local regions contained the possible text components are separated based on the projection histogram. In each local region, the pixels grouped into several connected components based on the connected component labeling and projection histogram. Then, classify each connect component into text region and reject the non-text region based on the feature information analysis such as size of connected component and stroke width estimation.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.117-120
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new text watermarking method using space coding and PN sequence. A PN sequence generated from user message modifies the space between words in each line. The detection can be done without original text image using the average space with in the text. Experimental results show that proposed method has the invisible property and robustness to the attack such as the elimination of words in the text.