• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.1004-1012
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• 2007

In this paper, we proposed a new car license plate recognition method using an unsupervised ART2 algorithm with HSI color model. The proposed method consists of two main modules; extracting plate area from a vehicle image and recognizing the characters in the plate after that. To extract plate area, hue(H) component of HSI color model is used, and the sub-area containing characters is acquired using modified fuzzy binarization method. Each character is further divided by a 4-directional edge tracking algorithm. To recognize the separated characters, noise-robust ART2 algorithm is employed. When the proposed algorithm is applied to recognize license plate characters, the extraction rate is better than that of existing RGB model and the overall recognition rate is about 97.4%.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.21-27
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• 2018

Wearing degree and uneven wearing detection algorithm using horizontal edge information is proposed in this paper. The noise in the input image is removed by bilateral filter, and then edges are extracted from the filtered image by using the proposed mask. As the tire is worn, grooves of tire shoulder or sipes are changed more than the vertical grooves. Therefore the edges from grooves of tire shoulder or sipes have more information about the tire wearing than the edges from vertical grooves. Proposed mask that is reflected this feature is used to extract the horizontal edges. After edge extraction, the edge image is represented in two-level system. The edge pixels of the binarization image are used to decide the wearing degree and uneven wearing. This proposed method can be used easily without any other equipments. The proposed method is conducted with a real vehicle, and the experimental results show the good performance of the proposed method in detecting wearing degree and uneven wearing.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.97-107
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• 2004

This paper presents an System-on-Chip(SoC) implementation of fingerprint feature extraction system. Typical fingerprint feature extraction systems employ binarization and thinning processes which cause many extraction errors for low qualify fingerprint images and degrade the accuracy of the entire fingerprint recognition system. To solve these problems, an algorithm directly following ridgelines without the binarization and thinning process has been proposed. However, the computational requirement of the algorithm makes it hard to implement it on SoCs by using software only. This paper presents an implementation of the ridge-following algorithm onto SoCs. The algorithm has been modified to increase the efficiency of hardwares. Each function block of the algorithm has been implemented in hardware or in software by considering its computational complexity, cost and utilization of the hardware, and efficiency of the entire system. The fingerprint feature extraction system has been developed as an IP for SoCs, hence it can be used on many kinds of SoCs for smart cards.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2021

In jewelry industry, the proportion of labor costs is high. Also, the production time and quality of products are highly varied depending on the workers' capabilities. Therefore, there is a demand from the jewelry industry for automation. The ear pin insertion automation system is the robot automatically inserts the ear pins into the silicone mold, and this automated system require accurate and fast hole detection method. In this paper, we propose optimal binarization method and a template matching method that can be applied in the ear pin insertion automation system. Through the performance test, it was shown that the applied method has an accuracy of 98.5% and 0.5 seconds faster processing speed than the Otsu binarization method. So, this automation system can contribute to cost reduction, work time reduction, and productivity improvement.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.865-871
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a method of extracting prostate region using morphological characteristics of ultra-sonic image of prostate. In the first step of the proposed method, the edge area of the prostate image is extracted. The histogram of ultra-sonic image is used to extract base objects to detect the upper edge of prostate region by altering the contrast of the image, then, the lower edges of the extracted base objects are connected by using monotone cubic spline interpolation to extract the upper edge. Step 2, Otsu's binarization is applied to the region under the extracted upper edge of the prostate ultra-sonic image to extract the lower edge of prostate. In the last step, the upper and the lower edges are connected to extract prostate region and by comparing the extracted region of prostate with the one measured manually, the result showed that the morphological characteristics of prostate in ultrasonic image can be utilized to extract the prostate region.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.47-53
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a quadtree-based optimization technique that enables fast Super-resolution(SR) computation by efficiently classifying and dividing physics-based simulation data required to calculate SR. The proposed method reduces the time required for quadtree computation by downscaling the smoke simulation data used as input data. By binarizing the density of the smoke in this process, a quadtree is constructed while mitigating the problem of numerical loss of density in the downscaling process. The data used for training is the COCO 2017 Dataset, and the artificial neural network uses a VGG19-based network. In order to prevent data loss when passing through the convolutional layer, similar to the residual method, the output value of the previous layer is added and learned. In the case of smoke, the proposed method achieved a speed improvement of about 15 to 18 times compared to the previous approach.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.14-19
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• 2013

Recently, due to the increase of the use of scanned images, the text segmentation techniques, which play critical role to optimize the quality of the scanned images, are required to be updated and advanced. In this study, an algorithm has been developed based on the modification of Gaussian mixture model (GMM) by integrating the calculation of Gaussian detection gradient and the estimation of the number clusters. The experimental results show an efficient method for text segmentation in natural scenes such as storefronts, street signs, scanned journals and newspapers at different size, shape or color of texts in condition of lighting changes and complex background. These indicate that our model algorithm and research approach can address various issues, which are still limitations of other senior algorithms and methods.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.400-404
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• 2006

We suggest a method to detect rear car license plate of one more cars by using blobs. First, we try to search all of the blobs from an input image based on the difference between objects and background. Second, we obtain rectangles enclosed the blobs, and rectangle clusters by considering the properties, for example, the number, size, distance, position. Third, the cluster is verified by the Support Vector Machine. Even if we only use the adaptive binarization as the preprocessing, the detection ratio is very high.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.32-39
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• 1999

In this paper, we made CGH patterns that had continuous amplitude distribution binary coded patterns with two different methods, and analyzed those patterns by using LCSLM (liquid crystal spatial light modulator). The error diffusion algorithm and direct quantization method were used as the binarization methods. The parameters of overall average brightness, mean square error, and diffraction efficiency were used in the comparison of reconstruction characteristics. The LCSLM which we used in this experiment was a binary reflective ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulator addressed electrically with 256$\times$256 pixels, 87% fill factor and 15$\mu$m pixel pitch.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.287-290
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• 2000

In this paper we have presented approach to automatic the direction feature vectors detection, which detects the ridge line directly in gray scale images. In spite of a greater conceptual complexity, we have shown that our technique has less computational complexity than the complexity of the techniques which require binarization and thinning. Afterwards a various direction feature vectors is changed four direction feature vectors. In this paper used matching method is four direction feature vectors based matching. This four direction feature vectors consist feature patterns in fingerprint images. This feature patterns were used for identification of individuals inputed multilayer Neural Networks(NN) which has capability of excellent pattern identification.