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Automatic Extraction of Route Information from Road Sign Imagery

  • Youn, Junhee;Chong, Kyusoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.595-603
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    • 2015
  • With the advances of the big-data process technology, acquiring the real-time information from the massive image data taken by a mobile device inside a vehicle will be possible in the near future. Among the information that can be found around the vehicle, the route information is needed for safe driving. In this study, the automatic extraction of route information from the road sign imagery was dealt with. The scope of the route information in this study included the route number, route type, and their relationship with the driving direction. For the recognition of the route number, the modified Tesseract OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine was used after extracting the rectangular-road-sign area with the Freeman chain code tracing algorithm. The route types (expressway, highway, rural highway, and municipal road) are recognized using the proposed algorithms, which are acquired from colour space analysis. Those road signs provide information about the route number as well as the roads that may be encountered along the way. In this study, such information was called “OTW (on the way)” or “TTW (to the way)” which between the two should be indicated is determined using direction information. Finally, the route number is matched with the direction information. Experiments are carried out with the road sign imagery taken inside a car. As a result, route numbers, route number type, OTW or TTW are successfully recognized, however some errors occurred in the process of matching TTW number with the direction.

A Simulator for the Validation of Non-invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP) Monitoring Devices (자동혈압계 성능평가를 위한 인체혈압 시뮬레이터 개발)

  • Doh, Il;Lim, Hyun Kyoon;Ahn, Bongyoung;Chee, Youngjoon;Lee, Jongshill;OH, Jae Hoon
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.111-115
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    • 2017
  • Blood pressure is one of the important vital signs for monitoring the medical condition of a patient. Automated NIBP(non-invasive blood pressure) monitoring devices calculate systolic and diastolic blood pressures from the oscillation in cuff pressure caused by a pulsation of an artery. To validate the NIBP devices, we developed a simulator to supply the oscillometric waveforms obtained from human subjects. The simulator provided pressure pulses to device-under-test and device readings were compared to the auscultatory references. Fully automated simulation system including OCR(optical character recognition) were developed and used for NIBP monitoring devices. The validation results using the simulator agreed well with previous clinical validation. More validation studies using the standardized oscillometric waveforms would be required for the replacement of clinical trials to validate a new automated NIBP monitoring device.

A Study on Improvement of Korean OCR Accuracy Using Deep Learning (딥러닝을 이용한 한글 OCR 정확도 향상에 대한 연구)

  • Kang, Ga-Hyeon;Ko, Ji-Hyun;Kwon, Yong-Jun;Kwon, Na-Young;Koh, Seok-Ju
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.693-695
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we propose the improvement of Hangul OCR accuracy through deep learning. OCR is a program that senses printed and handwritten characters in an optical way and encodes them digitally. In the case of the most commonly used Tesseract OCR, the accuracy of English recognition is high. However, Hangul has lower accuracy because it has less learning data for a complex structure. Therefore, in this study, we propose a method to improve the accuracy of Hangul OCR by extracting the character region from the desired image through image processing and using deep learning using it as learning data. It is expected that OCR, which has been developed only by existing alphanumeric and several languages, can be applied to various languages.

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A Study of Acoustic Noise Analysis and Reduction Method for Driving CD-ROM (CD-ROM 구동 시 발생소음 분석 및 저감 방안에 관한 연구)

  • 이재승;차성운
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.904-907
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    • 2002
  • Optical disk drive device is improved in rotating speed for faster data reading. In the case of CD-ROM, rotating speed is over 10000 rpm in the practical use. As a result of high rotating speed, unexpected effects as like increasing disk fluctuation and acoustic noise are raised by the air friction on the rotating disk and the eccentricity of rotating parts. The overall acoustic noise of running CD-ROM could be classified into two different characterized noise. The first is the structural-borne noise which is generated from vibrating solid body. By the reason, the signal of structural borne noise has very similar to the signal of surface vibrating one. It has dense noise energy at specific frequency region. The other is the air-borne noise which is generated from turbulence or vortex caused by friction between disk and air. The signal of air-borne noise has no dominant peak point at acoustic pressure-frequency domain. The noise energy is widely distributed while comparatively high and large frequency region. The structural-borne noise could be reduced by reducing vibration of structure and in addition it's target reducing frequency is narrow. However the air-borne noise reduction is effectively needed of enclosing method for the noise source located near the disk surface because it is difficult to define target frequency point. In this study, the acoustic noise at driving CD-ROM is classified by the sides of it's character and tried to reduce the overall acoustic noise.

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Development of a Real-time Sensor-based Virtual Imaging System (센서기반 실시간 가상이미징 시스템의 구현)

  • 남승진;오주현;박성춘
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2003
  • In sport programs, real-time virtual imaging system come into notice for new technology which can compose information like team logos, scores. distances directly on playing ground, so it can compensate for the defects of general character generator. In order to synchronize graphics to camera movements, generally two method is used. One is for using sensors attached to camera moving axis and the other is for analyzing camera video itself. KBS technical research institute developed real-time sensor-based virtual imaging system 'VIVA', which uses four sensors on pan, tilt, zoom, focus axis and controls virtual graphic camera in three dimensional coordinates in real-time. In this paper, we introduce our system 'VIVA' and it's technology. For accurate camera tracking we calculated view-point movement occurred by zooming based on optical principal point variation data and we considered field of view variation not only by zoom but also by focus. We developed our system based on three dimensional graphic environment. so many useful three dimensional graphic techniques such as keyframe animation can be used. VIVA was successfully used both in Busan Asian Games and 2002 presidential election. We confirmed that it can be used not only in the field but also in the studio programs in which camera is used within more close range.

An Implementation of an Android Mobile System for Extracting and Retrieving Texts from Images (이미지 내 텍스트 추출 및 검색을 위한 안드로이드 모바일 시스템 구현)

  • Go, Eun-Bi;Ha, Yu-Jin;Choi, Soo-Ryum;Lee, Ki-Hoon;Park, Young-Ho
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.57-67
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    • 2011
  • Recently, an interest in a mobile search is increasing according to the growing propagation of smart phones. However, a keypad, which is not appropriate for mobile environment, is the only input media for the mobile search. As an alternative, voice emerged as a new media for the mobile search, but this also has weaknesses. Thus, in the paper, we propose a mobile content called Orthros for searching the Internet using images as an input. Orthros extracts texts from images, and then inserts the texts to public search engines as a keyword. Also, Orthros can repeat searching with the extracted texts by storing result URL to internal databases. As an experiment, we analyze properties of recognizable images and present the implementation method in details.

A Korean CAPTCHA Study: Defeating OCRs In a New CAPTCHA Context By Using Korean Syllables

  • Yang, Tae-Cheon;Ince, Ibrahim Furkan;Salman, Yucel Datu
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.50-56
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    • 2009
  • Internet is being used for several activities by a great range of users. These activities include communication, e-commerce, education, and entertainment. Users are required to register regarding website in order to enroll web activities. However, registration can be done by automated hacking software. That software make false enrollments which occupy the resources of the website by reducing the performance and efficiency of servers, even stop the entire web service. It is crucial for the websites to have a system which has the capability of differing human users and computer programs in reading images of text. Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Human Apart (CAPTCHA) is such a defense system against Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. OCR can be defined as software which work for defeating CAPTCHA images and make countless number of registrations on the websites. This study proposes a new CAPTCHA context that is Korean CAPTCHA by means of the method which is splitting CAPTCHA images into several parts with random rotation values, and drawing random lines on a grid background by using Korean characters only. Lines are in the same color with the CAPTCHA text and they provide a distortion of image with grid background. Experimental results show that Korean CAPTCHA is a more secure and effective CAPTCHA type for Korean users rather than current CAPTCHA types due to the structure of Korean letters and the algorithm we are using: rotation and splitting. In this paper, the algorithm of our method is introduced in detail.

Essential Condition to Form the Blue Ocean Market Based on the Value Innovation - Cases from Gum.Refrigerator Market - (가치혁신에 의한 블루오션 시장사례에 관한 연구 - 국내 껌.냉장고 시장분석 -)

  • Park, Hyeon-Suk;Park, Hang-Jun
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.55-75
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    • 2006
  • This study aims to identify the unknown essential condition to form the blue ocean market, in addition to the innovation of customer value which does not become a sufficient condition though it is one of the essential conditions to form a blue ocean market, and induce companies to take a firm foothold in the blue ocean market after going to the blue ocean market by segmenting the market after setting up appropriate strategies. On the basis of those goals of this study, we dealt with subjects like the problem of approaching the market that possesses factors of differentiated value innovation, the segmentation of value innovative market, the problem about the major variables that shed light on the character of blue ocean optical illusion market, the strategy for following companies to enter the market, which we applied to the actual analysis based on the investigation into the literature related to value innovation and blue ocean strategy, investigation into the actual cases and objective data. We analysed a domestic refrigerator market and a domestic chewing gum market as representative examples of durables and nondurables and segmented each market on a value innovation market. We discovered the blue ocean and the blue ocean's illusive market of the two markets. I've mentioned and studied the characters of those positively.

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Implementation of Portable Visible Light Receiver using USB OTG (USB OTG를 활용한 휴대용 가시광 수신기 구현)

  • Lee, Dae-Hee;Lee, Jong-Sung;Oh, Chang-Heon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.741-743
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    • 2017
  • The visible light communication is a communication method of outputting binary data based on the illumination threshold value at the light receiving diode of the receiving unit, when the LED of the transmitting unit transmits light. However, separate receiver is necessary to receive the optical signal, there is a problem that a device not equipped with such a receiver can not utilize visible light communication. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a portable visible light receiver applicable to devices using USB OTG. Implemented portable visible light receiver converts the binary data received from the LED into a character string of ASCII code and transmits it to another device. Through data transmission experiments using smart phone confirmed that it is possible to transmit ASCII codes in the proposed method.

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Synthesis and Properties of Novel Y-type Nonlinear Optical Polyester Containing Cyanovinylthiophene with Enhanced Thermal Stability of Second Harmonic Generation

  • Lee, Ga-Young;Kim, Jin-Hyang;Jang, Han-Na;Won, Dong-Seon;No, Hyo-Jin;Lee, Ju-Yeon;Rhee, Bum-Ku;Choi, Hee-Dok
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.661-666
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    • 2009
  • 1-{2,4-Di-(2-hydroxyethoxy)phenyl}-2-(2-thienyl)ethene (5) was prepared and condensed with terephthaloyl chloride to yield polyester (6). Polymer 6 was reacted with tetracyanoethylene to give novel Y-type polyester (7) containing 1-(2,4-dioxyethoxy)phenyl-2-{5-(2,2,3-tricyanovinyl)-2-thienyl)}ethenyl groups as NLO-chromophores, which are parts the polymer backbones. Polymer 7 is soluble in common organic solvents such as acetone and N,N-dimethylformamide. It showed thermal stability up to 300 ${^{\circ}C}$ in thermogravimetric analysis with glasstransition temperature obtained from differential scanning calorimetry near 134 ${^{\circ}C}$. The second harmonic generation (SHG) coefficient ($d_33$) of poled polymer film at the 1560 nm fundamental wavelength was around 6.74 x $10^{-9}$ esu. The dipole alignment exhibited high thermal stability up to the glass-transition temperature ($Tg$), and there was no SHG decay below 135 ${^{\circ}C}$ because of the partial main-chain character of polymer structure, which is acceptable for NLO device applications.