• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1318-1324
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• 2003

There are two problems in the conventional ART1 algorithm. One is in similarity testing method of the conventional ART1 between input patterns and stored patterns. The other is that vigilance threshold of conventional ART1 influences the number of clusters and the rate of recognition. In this paper, new similarity testing method and dynamical vigilance threshold method are proposed to solve these problems. The former is similarity test method using the rate of norm of exclusive-NOR between input patterns and stored patterns and the rate of nodes have equivalence value, and the latter method dynamically controls vigilance threshold to similarity using fuzzy operations and the sum operation of Yager. To check the performance of new methods, we used 26 alphabet characters and nosed characters. In experiment results, the proposed methods are better than the conventional methods in ART1, because the proposed methods are less sensitive than the conventional methods for initial vigilance and the recognition rate of the proposed methods is higher than that of the conventional methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.5C
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• pp.486-492
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• 2003

The vigilance threshold of conventional fuzzy ART algorithm decide whether to permit the mismatch between any input pattern and stored pattern. If the vigilance threshold was large, despite of little difference among input and stored patterns, the input pattern may be classified to new category. On the other hand, if the vigilance threshold was small, the similarity between two patterns may be accepted in spite of lots of difference and the input pattern are classified to category of the stored pattern. Therefore, the vigilance threshold for the image recognition must be experientially set for the good result. Moreover, it may occur in the fuzzy ART algorithm that the information of stored patterns is lost in the weight-adjusting process and the rate of pattern recognition is dropped. In this paper, I proposed the enhanced fuzzy ART algorithm that supports the dynamical setting of the vigilance threshold using the generalized intersection operator of fuzzy logic and the weight value being adaptively set in proportional to the current weight change and the previous weight by reflecting the frequency of the selection of winner node. For the performance evaluation of the proposed method, we applied to the recognition of container identifiers from shipping container images. The experiment showed that the proposed method produced fewer clusters than conventional ART2 and fuzzy ART algorithm. and had tile higher recognition rate.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07b
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• pp.986-988
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• 1995

The ART(Adaptive Resonance Theory) model is self- organized with nonstationary input patterns in real time. But there is a multirun problem caused by fault clustering, or pertubated clustering and confines the advantage of the stationary real-time processing in ART model. In this paper, we propose the incremental vigilance threshold approach to decrease the number of multiruns. The incremental vigilance threshold approach is to learn with incremental vigilance threshold and competition with clusters.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.226-231
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• 2007

This paper presents a method of colored object extraction from an image using the fuzzy neural network. Fuzzy neural network divides an image into two clusters. It extracts the prototypes of Cb and Cr of object and background by controlling the vigilance parameter. The proposed method extracted object regardless of the position, the size, and the intensity of object. We compared the performance of the proposed method with that of the method of using subjective threshold value. And, we compared the performance of the proposed method with that of the method of using subjective threshold value by using several images with added noises.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.474-479
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed the novel method for the recognition of English calling cards by using the projection method and the enhanced RBF (Radial Basis Function) network. The recognition of calling cards consists of the extraction phase of character areas and the recognition phase of extracted characters. In the extraction phase, first of all, noises are removed from the images of calling cards, and the feature areas including character strings are separated from the calling card images by using the horizontal smearing method and the 8-directional contour tracking method. And using the image projection method, the feature areas are split into the areas of individual characters. We also proposed the enhanced RBF network that organizes the middle layer effectively by using the enhanced ART1 neural network adjusting the vigilance threshold dynamically according to the homogeneity between patterns. In the recognition phase, the proposed neural network is applied to recognize individual characters. Our experiment result showed that the proposed recognition algorithm has higher success rate of recognition and faster learning time than the existing neural network based recognition.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.433-444
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• 2000

The recognition of car plate was investigated by means of the enhanced fuzzy ART algorithm. The morphological information of horizontal and vertical edges was used to extract a plate area from a car image. In addition, the contour tracking algorithm by utilizing the SOFM was applied to extract the specific area which includes characters from an extracted plate area. The extracted characteristic area was recognized by using the enhanced fuzzy ART algorithm. In this study we propose the novel fuzzy ART algorithm different from the conventional fuzzy ART algorithm by the dynamical establishment of the vigilance threshold which shows a tolerance limit of unbalance between voluntary and saved patterns for clustering. The extraction rate obtained by using the morphological information of horizontal and vertical edges showed better results than that from the color information of RGB and HSI. Furthermore, the recognition rate of the enhanced fuzzy ART algorithm was improved much more than that of the conventional fuzzy ART and SOFM algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.5 s.37
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• pp.333-342
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• 2005

This paper proposes a method, which recognizes student's identification card by using image processing and recognition technology and can manage student information on the web. The presented scheme sets up an average brightness as a threshold, based on the brightest Pixel and the least bright one for the source image of the ID card. It is converting to binary image, applies a horizontal histogram, and extracts student number through its location. And, it removes the noise of the student number region by the mode smoothing with 3$\times$3 mask. After removing noise from the student number region, each number is extracted using vertical histogram and normalized. Using the enhanced ART1 algorithm recognized the extracted student number region. In this study, we propose the enhanced ART1 algorithm different from the conventional ART1 algorithm by the dynamical establishment of the vigilance parameter. which shows a tolerance limit of unbalance between voluntary and stored patterns for clustering. The Experiment results showed that the recognition rate of the proposed ART1 algorithm was improved much more than that of the conventional ART1 algorithm. So, we develop an educational matters administration system by using the proposed recognition method of the student's identification card.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.193-197
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• 2003

기존의 ART1 알고리즘은 입력 패턴과 저장 패턴간의 유사성 검증 방법의 문제점과 경계 변수에 따라 클러스터의 수와 인식률이 좌우되는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 ART1 알고리즘을 개선하기 위하여 입력 패턴과 저장 패턴간의 Exclusive NOR의 놈(norm) 비율을 사용하는 유사성 측정 방법과 퍼지 접속 연산자를 이용하여 유사성에 따라 경계변수를 동적으로 조정하는 방법을 적용한 개선된 ART1을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 1의 개수 비율이 아니라 같은 값을 가진 노드의 비율을 사용하여 유사성을 측정하고 경계 변수는 Yager의 합 접속 연산자를 사용하여 동적으로 조정한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 확인하기 위하여 26개의 영문 패턴 분류 문제와 잡음이 있는 패턴 인식 문제를 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 ART1 알고리즘 보다 경계 변수의 설정에 따라 민감하게 반응하지 않았고 인식률에서도 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.379-387
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• 2001

We proposed an enhanced extraction method of vehicle plate, in which both the brightness variation of gray and the Hue value of HSI color model were used. For the extraction of the vehicle plate from a vehicle image, first of all, candidate regions for the vehicle plate were extracted from the image by using the property of brightness variation of the image. A real place region was determined among candidate regions by the density of pixels with the Hue value of green and white. For- extracting the feature area containing characters from the extracted vehicle plate, we used the histogram-based approach of individual characters. And we proposed and applied for the recognition of characters the enhanced ART2 algorithm which support the dynamical establishment of the vigilance threshold with the genera]iced union operator of Yager. In addition, we propose an enhanced SOSL algorithm which is integrated both enhanced ART2 and supervised learning methods. The performance evaluation was performed using 100's real vehicle images and the evaluation results demonstrated that the extraction rates of tole proposed extraction method were improved, compared with that of previous methods based un brightness variation, RGB and HSI individually . Furthermore, the recognition rates of the proposed algorithms were improved much more than that of the conventional ART2 and BP algorithms.