• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.7 s.103
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• pp.737-744
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a three-level color clustering algerian for the binarization of text regions extracted from natural scene images. The proposed algorithm consists of three phases of color segmentation. First, the ordinary images in which the texts are well separated from the background, are binarized. Then, in the second phase, the input image is passed through a high pass filter to deal with those affected by natural or artificial light. Finally, the image Is passed through a low pass filter to deal with the texture in texts and/or background. We have shown that the proposed algorithm is more effective used gray-information binarization algorithm. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm we use a commercial OCR software ARMI 6.0 to observe the recognition accuracies on the binarized images. The experimental results on word and character recognition show that the proposed approach is more accurate than conventional methods by over $35\%$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.608-618
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• 2007

Image binarization is an important preprocessing to identify the object of interest by dividing pixels into the background and object. We proposes efficient binarization method and a stroke reconstruction method of the low quality character image for an effective character recognition. First, the character image is binarized by using the both advantages of local and global thresholding method and then the noise elimination around the character stroke and the hole filling on the stoke by the analysis of the binarized stroke image are performed to enhance the quality of the character stroke. Proposed binarization algorithm for character image achieved an efficiency of both processing speed and performance by the adaptive threshold selection. Moreover, We could get a high qualify binary image by a stroke reconstruction of the step-by-step denoising process.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.132-140
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• 2001

최근에는 대부분의 우편물 봉투가 창이나 색깔을 포함하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 창이 있는 봉투와 색깔이 있는 우편 봉투 영상에서 구조적 방법을 분석하여 수취인 주소 영역을 자동적으로 추출하는 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 이치화전 에지 검출을 이용하여 문자열 추출 후 검출된 블록에 대해 적응 이치화를 적용함으로써 이치화 후 우편 번호를 검출할 때보다 우편 봉투의 숫자 패턴이 밝기 및 주변 환경에 의한 영향을 적게 받는다는 점에서 더 효율적이다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.75-86
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• 2004

This paper proposes a method to speed up the document image binarization using a water flow model. The proposed method extracts the region of interest (ROI) around characters from a document image and restricts pouring water onto a 3-dimensional terrain surface of an image only within the ROI. The amount of water to be filed into a local valley is determined automatically depending on its depth and slope. The proposed method accumulates weighted water not only on the locally lowest position but also on its neighbors. Therefore, a valley is filed enough with only one try of pouring water onto the terrain surface of the ROI. Finally, the depth of each pond is adaptively thresholded for robust character segmentation, because the depth of a pond formed at a valley varies widely according to the gray-level difference between characters and backgrounds. In our experiments on real document images, the Proposed method has attained good binarization performance as well as remarkably reduced processing time compared with that of the existing method based on a water flow model.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.1234-1243
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• 1994

We propose an adaptive decoding scheme for a concatenated codes with frequency-hopped spread-spectrum communication system in the presence of a pulse-burst jammer and its performance is analyzed. Concatenated coding system employing binary inner code and Reed-Solomon outer code is investigated and the use of side information is allowed to decode both erasures and errors. Our scheme makes the decoder adapts to the level of jamming by switching between two decoding modes such that the overall block error probability can be reduced. It is shown that the proposed decoding scheme yields a significant performance improvement over a conventional decoding scheme.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.3-20
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• 1993

본 연구에서는 퍼지사상화(fuzzy mapping)에 의한 사상된(mapped) 코드북을 사용하는 화자적은 음성합성 알고리즘을 제안한다. 입력화자와 기준화자의 코드북은 신경망 클러스터링 알고리즘인 자율경쟁 학습을 사용하여 작성된다. 사상된 코드북은 입력 음성벡터에 대한 두 화자의 대응 코드벡터의 소속갑(membership value)으로 퍼지 히스토그랩을 작성하여 이들을 1차 결합함으로써 얻어지는 퍼지사상화에 의하여 작성된다. 음성합성시에는 사상된 코드북을 사용하여 입력화자의 음것을 퍼지 벡터양자화한 다음, CFM 연산으로 합성함으로써 입력화자에 적응된 합성음을 얻는다. 실험에서 여러 입력화자로 30대의 남성, 20대의 여성음을 사용하였고 기준음석으로 입력음성과는 다른 20대의 여성음성을 사용하였다.실험에 사용된 음성데이타는 문장/안녕하십니까/와/굿모닝/이다. 실험결과는 각각의 입력화자에 기준화자 음성이 적응된 합성음을 얻었다.

• ICROS
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.43-50
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• 1997

이 글에서는 이진 증류탑을 위한 적응 제어 기법에 대해 소개하였다. 제안된 방법은 최근 개발된 다변수 예측 제어 알고리즘과 공분산 행렬 정규화 기능을 갖는 추정 알고리즘에 기초하고 있다. 이러한 적응 시스템은 그 설계과정이 복잡하지 않아 실저적 적용 가능성이 높다는 점에서 가치가 있다. 필터를 제외하면 단 두 개의 제어기 상수만이 결정되면 되고, 더욱이 이들이 공정의 상승 및 정정 시간과 관련되어 그 설정이 쉽다는 중요한 특징을 갖는다. 이와 같은 제어기 설계의 간소화에도 불구하고 증류탑의 설정값 추종 성능 및 Feed 변화에 대한 제어 성능의 우수함을 공정 모사를 통해 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.5
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• pp.42-47
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• 1999

연속 계조도 영상을 이진 영상(하프톤 영상)으로 변환하는 하프톤 기법중 대표적인 두 방법은 순차적 디더법과 오차 확산법이 있다. 이 중에서 오차확산법은 예리한 하프톤 영상을 얻기위한 우수한 하프톤 기법으로 잘 알려져 있다. 그러나 알고리듬에 기인하는 여러 인공잡음들이 발생하므로 이를 개선하기 위한 방법으로 최적의 필터 계수를 얻기 위한 많은 연구가 진행되었다. 본 논문에서는 연속 계조도 입력 영상과 하프톤 영상사이의 양자화 오차를 영상에 적응적이며 최적으로 확산시키기 위해 양자화 오차를 초기 가능성의 퍼지 부분 집합으로 정의하였다. 이러한 퍼지 부분 집합의 중심화소에 대해 이웃한 화소의 오차 가능성을 고려한 후 FAM 규칙을 이용하여 각각 화소들의 오차 가능성을 영상에 따라 적응적으로 갱신하였으며 이를 원영상에 더하여 다시 양자화 과정을 번복하는 퍼지 이완 알고리듬을 이용한 오차 확산법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법을 이용하여 얻은 결과를 최적 필터 계수를 구하기 위한 기존의 방법의 결과 영상과 비교 분석하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.689-699
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• 2016

As the demand for LCD increases, the importance of inspection equipment for improving the efficiency of LCD production is continuously emphasized. The pattern inspection apparatus is one that detects minute defects of pattern quickly using optical equipment such as line scan camera. This pattern inspection apparatus makes a decision on whether a pixel is a defect or not using a single threshold value in order to meet constraint of real time inspection. However, a method that uses an adaptive thresholding scheme with different threshold values according to characteristics of each region in a pattern can greatly improve the performance of defect detection. To apply this adaptive thresholding scheme it has to be known that a certain pixel to be inspected belongs to which region. Therefore, this paper proposes a region matching algorithm that recognizes the region of each pixel to be inspected. The proposed algorithm is based on the pattern matching scheme with the consideration of real time constraint of machine vision and implemented through GPGPU in order to be applied to a practical system. Simulation results show that the proposed method not only satisfies the requirement for processing time of practical system but also improves the performance of defect detection.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.14-20
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• 2003

This paper presents a text extraction method of camera based document image. It is more difficult to recognize camera based document image in comparison with scanner based image because of segmentation problem due to variable lighting condition and versatile fonts. Both document binarization and character extraction are important processes to recognize camera based document image. After converting color image into grey level image, gray level normalization is used to extract character region independent of lighting condition and background image. Local adaptive binarization method is then used to extract character from the background after the removal of noise. In this character extraction step, the information of the horizontal and vertical projection and the connected components is used to extract character line, word region and character region. To evaluate the proposed method, we have experimented with documents mixed Hangul, English, symbols and digits of the ETRI database. An encouraging binarization and character extraction results have been obtained.