• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.326-328
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• 2000

The paper proposes the scheme of skew detection for Thai printed document images by using linear regression algorithm. It intends to use with the Thai character recognition systems to reduce the skew detection time. This scheme begins by finding the center of gravity of a document image. This point is used as the starting point for gathering data in the scheme. The data is obtained by scanning incrementally one pixel in vertically with the width of 20-pixels. After the scanning process, if data Is different from it's neighbor more than ${\pm}$ 15 pixels, it will be considered as noise or data in other lines and will be deleted. The last step is the operation by using linear regression algorithm on these selected data and the skew angle will be obtained. The proposed method has been tested with 45 document images with different fonts, sizes and skew angles. The experiment results show that the proposed method can detect the skew angle with the error of less then one degree. The average processing time is about 19 times faster than that of the Hough Transform method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.55-72
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• 1997

This paper presents a digital signature scheme for facsimile document which directly embeds a signature onto the document. We use multiple reference lines which have been scanned just before and modify each distance of changing pels both on the reference line specified by key and on the coding line with a single bit of the signature data. The time to take in signature is reduced by spreading of signature. Non-repudiation in origin, the 3rd condition of digital signature is realized by proposed digital signature scheme. The transmitter embeds the signature secretly and transfers it, and the receiver makes a check of any forgery on the signature and the document. This scheme is compatible with the ITU-T.4(CCITT G3 or G4 facsimile standards). The total amount of data transmitted and the image quality are about the same to that of the original document, and thus a third party notices that no signature is embedded on the document.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.211-221
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• 2003

The objective of this paper is performance analysis of the digital document image decimation algorithm which generates a value of decimated element by an average of a target pixel value and a value of neighbor intelligible element to adaptively reflect the merits of ZOD method and FOD method on the decimated image. First, a target pixel located at the center of sliding window is selected, then the gradient amplitudes of its right neighbor pixel and its lower neighbor pixel are calculated using first order derivative operator respectively. Secondly, each gradient amplitude is divided by the summation result of two gradient amplitudes to generate each local intelligible weight. Next, a value of neighbor intelligible element is obtained by adding a value of the right neighbor pixel times its local intelligible weight to a value of the lower neighbor pixel times its intelligible weight. The decimated image can be acquired by applying the process repetitively to all pixels in input image which generates the value of decimated element by calculating the average of the target pixel value and the value of neighbor intelligible element. In this paper, the performance comparison of proposed method and conventional methods in terms of subjective performance and hardware complexity is analyzed and the preferable approach for developing the decimation algorithm of the digital document image on the basis of this analysis result has been reviewed.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.7
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• pp.871-880
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• 2002

In this paper, I proposed the adaptive watermarking based on the discrete wavelet transform for the very robust watermarking against intentional distortion which attacks on image. A watermark is an binary image such as document(sign), and such watermark image is embedded in the LH and HL band of wavelet transformed domain for copyright protection of image data. To evaluate robustness of the proposed method, we applied some basic algorithm of image processing such as brightening, darkening, sharpening, blurring, cropping, histogram equalizing and lossy compression(JPEG, gif). As a result of experiment, the proposed method has the good image quality and the high perceptibility of watermark. It was demonstrated by experiments that the proposed algorithm can provide an excellent protection under various attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.65-73
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• 2013

As the advent of the digital age, documents are often scanned to be archived or to be transmitted over the network. The largest proportion of documents is texts and the next is seal images indicating the author of the documents. While a lot of research has been conducted to recognize texts in scanned documents and commercialized text recognizing products are developed as highlighted the importance of the scanned document, information about seal images is discarded. In this paper, we study how to extract the seal image area from the color or black and white document containing the seal image and how to save the seal image. We propose a preprocessing step to remove other components except for the candidate outlines of the seal imprint from scanned documents and a method to select the final region of interest from these candidates by using the feature of seal images. Also in case of a seal imprint overlapped with texts, the most similar image among those stored in the database is selected through the template matching process. We verify the implemented system for a various type of documents produced in schools and analyze the results.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.165-174
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• 2020

This document outlines a new color image encryption technology development. After splitting the original image into 240-bit blocks and modifying the first block by an initialization vector, an improved Feistel circuit is applied, sponsored by a genetic crossover operator and then strong chaining between the encrypted block and the next clear block is attached to set up the confusion-diffusion and heighten the avalanche effect, which protects the system from any known attack. Simulations carried out on a large database of color images of different sizes and formats prove the robustness of such a system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.469-472
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• 2003

Skew is inevitably occurred in a scanned document image Thus, character recognition systems are generally very sensitive to a skew angle. In this paper, we propose a robust slant correction algorithm based on dithering and estimating vortical transition. Character strings are segmented by projecting the vertical transition point and the slant corrected image. The segmentation method using the vertical transition point can effectively split the character strings touching vertically each other. Experimental results show that the proposed method has achieved robust slant correction and good performance of character string segmentation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.401-403
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a generative adversarial networks (GAN) based text-to-image generating method. In many natural language processing tasks, which word expressions are determined by their term frequency -inverse document frequency scores. Word2Vec is a type of neural network model that, in the case of an unlabeled corpus, produces a vector that expresses semantics for words in the corpus and an image is generated by GAN training according to the obtained vector. Thanks to the understanding of the word we can generate higher and more realistic images. Our GAN structure is based on deep convolution neural networks and pixel recurrent neural networks. Comparing the generated image with the real image, we get about 88% similarity on the Oxford-102 flowers dataset.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.5 s.101
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• pp.521-526
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• 2005

In this Paper, we propose a keyword spotting system as an alternative to searching system for poor quality Korean document images and compare the Proposed system with an OCR-based document retrieval system. The system is composed of character segmentation, feature extraction for the query keyword, and word-to-word matching. In the character segmentation step, we propose an effective method to remove the connectivity between adjacent characters and a character segmentation method by making the variance of character widths minimum. In the query creation step, feature vector for the query is constructed by a combination of a character model by typeface. In the matching step, word-to-word matching is applied base on a character-to-character matching. We demonstrated that the proposed keyword spotting system is more efficient than the OCR-based one to search a keyword on the Korean document images, especially when the quality of documents is quite poor and point size is small.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.1481-1492
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• 1999

As Internet is popularized by the advent of Web concept having characteristics such as open network, user-friendly, and easy-usage, there are many changes in Information systems providing various information. Web is rapidly transferred traditional Information systems to Web-based Information systems, because it provides not only text information but also multimedia information including image, audio, video, and etc. Also, as information contents were changed from text-based simple abstract information to full-text information, there was appeared various document formats processing Full-text information. But, as they naturally demand large systems memory, long processing time, broader transmission bandwidth, and etc, estimating of these factors is necessary when constructing information systems. This paper focuses on how to design and construct information system processing full-text information and providing function of an integrated document. Primarily, we should review standard document format which is used or developed, and any document format is appropriate to process full-text information in review with viewpoint of information system. Also, practically we should construct information system providing full-text information based on PDF document.