• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.220-224
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• 2006

The text to be included in the natural images has many important information in the natural image. Therefore, if we can extract the text in natural images, It can be applied to many important applications. In this paper, we propose a text region extraction method using pattern histogram of character-edge map. We extract the edges with the Canny edge detector and creates 16 kind of edge map from an extracted edges. And then we make a character-edge map of 8 kinds that have a character feature with a combination of an edge map. We extract text region using 8 kinds of character-edge map and 16 kind of edge map. Verification of text candidate region uses analysis of a character-edge map pattern histogram and structural feature of text region. The method to propose experimented with various kind of the natural images. The proposed approach extracted text region from a natural images to have been composed of a complex background, various letters, various text colors effectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.400-406
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 출입국자 관리의 효율성과 체계적인 출입국 관리를 위하여 여권 코드를 자동으로 인식하고 위조 여권을 판별할 수 있는 지능형 여권 인식 및 얼굴 인증 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 지능형 여권 인식 시스템은 여권 영상에서 경계선 검출 및 수평 최소값 필터 등을 적용하여 코드의 문자열 영역을 추출하고 기울어진 각도를 보정하였다. 검출된 코드 문자열의 인식을 위해 새로운 ART 알고리즘을 제안하여 적용하였고 휴리스틱 방법을 이용하여 인식 결과를 보정한 후 이 인식 결과를 바탕으로 여권 소지자의 사진 및 관련 정보를 여권 데이터베이스에서 추출하였다. 여권에서 추출된 출입국자의 사진 및 얼굴과 데이터베이스에 저장된 사진 및 얼굴과의 유사도 측정을 통하여 여권 사진의 위조 여부를 판단하였다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 여권 코드의 자동인식과, DB에 저장된 사진 정보를 바탕으로 얼굴 사진 영역의 인중을 통하여 위조 여권을 판별할 수 있는 지능형 출입국 관리 시스템을 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.31-37
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• 2001

License plate recognition system for an exclusive bus-lane is made of 5 core parts which are vehicle detection, image acquisition individual character extraction, character recognition and data transmission. Among them, the accuracy of license plate extraction can bring effect significantly to the accuracy of a whole system recognition rate also the more exact extraction of license plate is required in various weather and environment conditions. Therefore in this paper we propose a plat extraction algorithm that makes pyramid structure to reduced the extraction processing time binarizes plate's template region using adaptive thresholding extracts candidate region containing plate, and verifies a final region using plate character distribution characteristics among the candidates. Experimenal results were exactly extracted the license plate region by using proposed method to the image obtained in an exclusive bus-lane with various weather and environment conditions.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.122-130
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• 2009

Conventional approaches for car number plate detection have dealt with those input images having similar sizes and simple background acquired under well organized environment. Thus their performance get reduced when input images include number plates with different sizes and when they are acquired under different lighting conditions. To solve these problem, this paper proposes a new scheme that uses the geometrical features of number plates and their topological information with reference to other features of the car. In the first step, those edges constructing a rectangle are detected and several pixels neighboring those edges are selected as the seed pixels for region growing. For region growing, color and intensity are used as the features, and the result regions are merged to construct the candidate for a number plate if their features are within a certain boundary. Once the candidates for the number plates are generated then their topological relations with other parts of the car such as lights are tested to finally determine the number plate region. The experimental results have shown that the proposed method can be used even for detecting small size number plates where characters are not visible.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.19-25
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• 2001

A novel approach for the feature extraction of handwritten characters is proposed by using spatial filtering neural networks with 4 layers. The proposed system first removes rough pixels which are easy to occur in handwritten characters. The system then extracts and removes the boundary information which have no influence on characters recognition. Finally, The system extracts feature information and removes the noises from feature information. The spatial filters adapted in the system correspond to the receptive fields of ganglion cells in retina and simple cells in visual cortex. With PE2 Hangul database, we perform experiments extracting features of handwritten characters recognition. It will be shown that the network can extract feature informations from handwritten characters successfully.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.80-83
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• 1996

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.241-244
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 차량 영상의 수평 및 수직 명암 값 변화 정보를 이용하여 번호판 영역을 추출하고 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 번호판 내용을 인식하는 알고리즘에 관해 기술하였다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 번호판 영역에서 문자와 배경이 뚜렷하게 구별되고, 일정한 명암도 변화를 가지면서 다른 영역보다 밀집도가 높다는 특성을 이용하여 수평 및 수직 명암도 변화값을 구하여 차량영상에서 번호판 영역을 추출하며 상당히 어둡거나 밝게 입력된 영상에도 동일한 인식 성능을 얻기 위하여 밝기 보정을 수행한다. 또한, 입력 문자의 크기, 이동 및 회전에 무관한 특성을 추출을 위해 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 차량 번호를 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법들을 적용한 결과 계산 속도가 훨씬 빠르며, 차량 번호판의 크기에 관계없이, 또한 잡음에 크게 영향을 받지 않으면서 번호판 추출이 정확하여 실시간 처리의 가능성을 제시하였을 뿐만 아니라 번호판 영역이 불투명하거나 불규칙한 조명 상태에서도 검출이 가능하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.358-363
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• 2009

Text region detection from the natural scene images used in a variety of applications, many research are needed in this field. Recent research methods is to detect the text region using various algorithm which it is combination of edge based and connected component based. Therefore, this paper proposes an text region detection using edge and regional minima/maxima transformation algorithm from natural scene images, and then detect the connected components of edge and regional minima/maxima, labeling edge and regional minima/maxima connected components. Analysis the labeled regions and then detect a text candidate regions, each of detected text candidates combined and create a single text candidate image, Final text region validated by comparing the similarity and adjacency of individual characters, and then as the final text regions are detected. As the results of experiments, proposed algorithm improved the correctness of text regions detection using combined edge and regional minima/maxima connected components detection methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.175-186
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• 2004

We present a hybrid approach of texture-based method and connected component (CC)-based method for text extraction in complex images. Two primary methods, which are mainly utilized in this area, are sequentially merged for compensating for their weak points. An automatically constructed MLP-based texture classifier can increase recall rates for complex images with small amount of user intervention and without explicit feature extraction. CC-based filtering based on the shape information using NMF enhances the precision rate without affecting overall performance. As a result, a combination of texture and CC-based methods leads to not only robust but also efficient text extraction. We also enhance the processing speed by adopting appropriate region marking methods for each input image category.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.697-698
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 시각 장애우의 식품 안전성 증진을 위해 광학 문자 인식 (optical character recognition, OCR) 및 실시간 객체 인식 (you only look once, YOLO) 알고리즘에 기반한 식품의 유통기한 자동 알림 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 1) 스마트폰 카메라를 통해 실시간으로 입력되는 영상에서 YOLO 알고리즘을 활용하여 유통기한으로 예측되는 이미지 영역을 검출하고, 2) 검출된 영역에서 OCR 알고리즘을 활용하여 유통기한 데이터를 추출하며, 3) 최종 추출된 유통기한 데이터를 음성으로 변환하여 시각 장애우에게 전달한다. 개발된 시스템은 유통기한 정보를 추출해서 사용자에게 전달하기까지 평균 약 7초 이내의 빠른 응답 속도를 보였으며, 62.8%의 객체 인식 정확도와 93.6%의 문자 인식 정확도를 보였다. 이러한 결과들은 제안하는 시스템을 시각 장애우들이 실용적으로 활용할 수 있다는 가능성을 보여준다.