• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.229-236
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• 2000

This paper proposes on the Hanguel character CAI system using image processing. For this, firstly, the characters written by elementary school students or foreigners arc captured by CCD camera. Secondly, Recognition is accomplished by pre-processing, thinning and recognition processes. Thirdly, strokes are separated and beauty evaluation is done by matching feature value of the input image from the similarity measure function. In particular, this paper describe to define the similarity measuring function using extracted factor values after getting the beauty evaluation factor values of the consonant in the entire CAI system. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed system is demonstrated by experiments.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.237-241
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• 2002

In this paper, we describe how to represent hand witten decimal digits by a sequence of one to five fuzzy sets. Each fuzzy set represents an arc segment of the digit and is a Cartesian product of four fuzzy sets; the first is fur the arc length of the segment, the second is for the arc direction, the third is fur the arc shape, and the fourth is a crisp number indicating whether it has a junction point and if it has an end point of a stroke. We show that an arbitrary pair of these sequences representing two different digits is mutually disjoint. We also show that various forms of a digit written in different styles can be represented by the same sequence of fuzzy sets and hence the deviations due to different writers can be modeled by using these fuzzy sets.

• The Journal of Information Technology and Database
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.65-78
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 획 상대위치 판별을 통한 온라인 필기체 한글 문자 인식에 관하여 연구하였다. 한글을 구성하는 획을 인식하기 위하여 각 획의 시작부분과 끝부분의 방향코드를 이용하였으며, 인식된 획들을 바탕으로 각 획들간의 상대위치 정보를 이용하여 자소를 인식하였다. 온라인 필기체 한글의 경우 획의 모양과 크기가 필기자에 따라 불규칙하게 변하므로 획의 모양보다는 획의 위치를 인식에 더 중요한 자료로 삼아 인식을 행하였다. 6,000자의 온라인 필기체 한글 문자에 대하여 실험한 결과, 문자당 평균인식속도 0.034초, 획 인식률 92.3%와 문자 인식률 94.6%를 보였다. 본 실험의 결과로서 온라인 필기체 인식시스템을 구성함에 있어서 획의 시작 부분과 끝부분의 진행방향이 획인식의 중요 요소임과 획들간의 상대적 위치가 한글 문자 인식에 있어서 중요한 요소임을 밝혔다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.28B no.10
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• pp.747-754
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• 1991

In this paper, we studies the on-line recognition of handwritten character using WLD(weighted levenshtein distance) algorithm with parallelism. The Hangeul can be separated for unit of phonemes and the alphanumeric can be separated for unit of characters. And, we studies the parallelism and the concurrency of the WLD algorithm for realization of special-purpose processor. By the simulation result for 10, 000 characters in practical sentences, the recognition rate of strokes in obtained 96.57$\%$ and the separation rate for phonemes and characteristics is obtained 95.4$\%$.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.130-134
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• 2020

This paper proposes a new method for the digit recognition on a 7-segment display. The proposed method uses morphological processing that dilates segments of digits and connects them into strokes. The digits are extracted by connected component analysis and finally, template matching method recognizes the extracted digits. The proposed method is implemented using C language in Raspberry Pi 4 system with a camera module for a real-time image processing. Experiments were conducted by using various 7-segment LED displays and 7-segment mono LCD displays. The results show that the proposed method is successful for the digit recognition on the 7-segment displays.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.29-37
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• 1989

This paper presents an application of the extended DP matching method to the on-line recognition of cursive Hangeul (Korean characters). We decrease the number of matching's objects by performing rough classification matching which makes the best use of features in the first and the last segment of Hangeul. By adding the extraction function of the basic character patterns to DP matching method, we try to calculate precisely the difference among Hangeul. The extraction of the basic character patterns is done by examining the features of segments in character. Applying the extended DP matching method to the on-line recognition of cursive Hangeul, absorption of writing motion and stable separation of strokes can be performed with flexibility.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.19-26
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• 2013

In the Malaysian license plates, alphabets and numerals which are made by plastic, are adhered to a frame as embossing style and occasionally characters in horizontal, vertical directions are aligned with narrow space. So the extraction of character stroke information can be hard in the vehicle images of low illumination intensity. In this paper, Malaysian license plate recognition algorithm for low illumination intensity image is proposed. DoG filtering based character stroke generation method is introduced to derive exact connected components of strokes in the vehicle image of low illumination intensity. After localization of plate by connected component analysis, characters are segmented and recognized. Algorithm is experimented for the 6,046 vehicle images captured in Kuala Lumpur by IR camera without using any special light during day and night. The experimental results show that recognition accuracy of plates is 96.1%.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.12
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• pp.894-906
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• 2006

There are many difficulties to develop a mobile contents due to many constraints on mobile environments. It is difficult to make a good mobile contents with only visual reduction of existing contents on wire Internet. Therefore, it is essential to devise the data representation and to develop the authoring tool to meet the needs of the mobile contents market. We suggest the compact mobile contents to learn Chinese characters and developed its authoring tool. The animation which our system produces is realistic as if someone writes letters with pen or brush. Moreover, our authoring tool makes a user generate a Chinese character animation easily and rapidly although she or he has not many knowledge in computer graphics, mobile programming or Chinese characters. The method to generate the stroke animation is following: We take basic character shape information represented with several contours from TTF(TrueType Font) and get the information for the stroke segmentation and stroke ordering from simple user input. And then, we decompose whole character shape into some strokes by using polygonal approximation technique. Next, the stroke animation for each stroke is automatically generated by the scan line algorithm ordered by the stroke direction. Finally, the ordered scan lines are compressed into some integers by reducing coordinate redundancy As a result, the stroke animation of our system is even smaller than GIF animation. Our method can be extended to rendering and animation of Hangul or general 2D shape based on vector graphics. We have the plan to find the method to automate the stroke segmentation and ordering without user input.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.11
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• pp.140-149
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• 1996

Cursive characters are written on an economical principle to reduce the motion of a pen in the limit of distinction between characters. That is, the pen is not lifted up to move for writing a next stroke, the pen is not moved at all, or connected two strokes chance their shapes to a similar and simple shape which is easy to be written. For these reasons, strokes and korean alphabets are not only easy to be changed, but also difficult to be splitted. In this paper, we propose a curvature stroke modeling method for splitting and matching by using a structural primitive. A curvature stroke is defined as a substroke which does not change its curvanture. Input strokes handwritten in a cursive style are splitted into a sequence of curvature strokes by segmenting the points which change the direction of rotation, which occur a sudden change of direction, and which occur an excessive rotation Each reference of korean alphabets is handwritten in a printed style and is saved as a sequence of curvature strikes which is generated by splitting process. And merging process is used to generate various sequences of curvature strikes for matching. Here, it is also considered that imaginary strokes can be written or omitted. By using a curvature stroke as a unit of recognition, redundant splitting points in input characters are effectively reduced and exact matching is possible by generating a reference curvature stroke, which consists of the parts of adjacent two korean alphasbets, even when the connecting points between korean alphabets are not splitted. The results showed 83.6% as recognition rate of the first candidate and 0.99sec./character (CPU clock:66MHz) as processing time.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.358-377
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for trajectory recovery. Our system uses a triangulation procedure for skeletonization and graph theory to extract the trajectory. Skeletonization extracts the polyline skeleton according to the polygonal contours of the handwritten characters, and as a result, the junction becomes clear and the characters that are touching each other are separated. The approach for the trajectory recovery is based on graph theory to find the optimal path in the graph that has the best representation of the trajectory. An undirected graph model consisting of one or more strokes is constructed from a polyline skeleton. By using the polyline skeleton, our approach accelerates the process to search for an optimal path. In order to evaluate the performance, we built our own dataset, which includes testing and ground-truth. The dataset consist of thousands of handwritten characters and word images, which are extracted from five handwritten documents. To show the relative advantage of our skeletonization method, we first compare the results against those from Zhang-Suen, a state-of-the-art skeletonization method. For the trajectory recovery, we conduct a comparison using the Root Means Square Error (RMSE) and Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) in order to measure the error between the ground truth and the real output. The comparison reveals that our approach has better performance for both the skeletonization stage and the trajectory recovery stage. Moreover, the processing time comparison proves that our system is faster than the existing systems.