• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.806-816
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• 2009

Character recognition system consists of four step; text localization, text segmentation, character segmentation, and recognition. The character segmentation is very important and difficult because of noise, illumination, and so on. For high recognition rates of the system, it is necessary to take good performance of character segmentation algorithm. Many algorithms for character segmentation have been developed up to now, and many people have been recently making researches in segmentation of touching or overlapping character. Most of algorithms cannot apply to the text regions of management number marked on the slab in steel image, because the text regions are irregular such as touching character by strong illumination and by trouble of nozzle in marking machine, and loss of character. It is difficult to gain high success rate in various cases. This paper describes a new algorithm of character segmentation to recognize slab management number marked on the slab in the steel image. It is very important that pre-processing step is to convert gray image to binary image without loss of character and touching character. In this binary image, non-touching characters are simply separated by using vertical projection profile. For separating touching characters, after we use combined profile to find candidate points of boundary, decide real character boundary by using method based on recognition. In recognition step, we remove noise of character images, then recognize respective character images. In this paper, the proposed algorithm is effective for character segmentation and recognition of various text regions on the slab in steel image.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 영문 인쇄체의 접합 문자를 분할하는 새로운 알고리듬을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 문자 분할의 접근 방식은 특징을 기반으로 한 접근 방식(feature-based approaches)과 인식을 기반으로 한 접근 방식(recognition-based approaches)의 단점을 보안한 새로운 문자 분할 방법이다. 접합 문자의 측면 윤곽 특징을 정의하고, 그 측면 윤곽 특징을 이용하여 문자 인식의 도움 없이도 접합 문자 내의 문자를 일차 내정하여 분할 한 후 다시 측면 윤곽 특징을 이용하여 문자 분할을 최종 확정한다. 또한 본 논문에서는 분할 비용을 정의하는데, 분할 비용은 최적의 경로로 문자 분할을 수행하도록 한다. 제안된 문자 분할의 성능은 U.S. 메일에서 주소를 자동으로 인식하여 메일을 자동으로 도착지별로 분류하는 시스템(Envelope Reader System)을 이용해 구해졌다. 3359개의 메일이 실험되어졌는데, 제안된 문자 분할 알고리즘에 의해 분류율이 $68.92\%$에서 $80.08\%$로 성능이 향상되었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.389-391
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• 2007

This paper describes about the printed character segmentation and recognition system for slabs in steel manufacturing process. To increase the recognition rate, it is important to improve success rate of character segmentation. Since Slabs front area surface are not uniform and surface temperature is very high, marked characters not only undergo damages but also have much noise. On the other hand, since almost marked characters are very thick and the space between characters is only about 10 $^{\sim}$ 15 mm, there are many touching characters. Therefore appropriate character image preprocessing and segmentation algorithm is needed. In this paper we propose a multi-local thresholding method for damaged character restoration, a modified touching character segmentation, algorithm for marked characters. Finally a effective Multi-Class SVM is used to recognize segmented characters.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.248-251
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 접합 문자를 분할하는 알고리듬을 소개한다. 문자 인식기는 문자를 인식하기 위해 문자 분할을 전처리 단계에 필요로 하는데, 문자 분할은 높은 수행력을 위해 문자 인식 결과를 필요로 한다. 이 딜레마를 해결하기 위해서는 문자 분할과 문자 인식, 이 두 문제를 동시에 해결하는 방법이 필요하다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 문자 분할 전에 접합문자 내에 있는 소속 문자를 인식하고 문자를 분할하는 새로운 문자 분할 방법을 제시한다. 본 연구에서 제시한 문자 분할알고리즘은 접합 문자 내에 있는 소속 문자를 문자 분할 전에 인식하기 위해 측면 윤곽을 정의하고, 그 히스토그램을 구해 프로토타입에 있는 단일 문자의 측면 윤곽 히스토그램과 비교 계산하여 가장 적은 거리차를 가지는 단일 문자를 분할 문자의 일차 후보로 내정하여, 분할 비용을 가지고 접합 문자를 분할한다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2012

Character segmentation is a preprocessing step in many offline handwriting recognition systems. In this paper, Chinese characters are categorized into seven different structures. In each structure, the character size with the range of variations is estimated considering typical handwritten samples. The component removal and merge criteria are presented to remove punctuation symbols or to merge small components which are part of a character. Finally, the criteria for segmenting the adjacent characters concerning each other or overlapped are proposed.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1995년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.427-430
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• 1995

This paper proposes a new image processing algorithm to recognize korean documents. It take out the region of syllable area from input character image, then it makes recognition of a consonant and a vowel in the character. A precision segmentation is very important to recognize the input character. The input image has 8-bit gray scaled resolution. Not only the shape but also vertical and horizontal lines dispersion graph are used for segmentation. Theresult shows a higher accuracy of character segmentation.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권9호
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• pp.1231-1238
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• 1995

In on-line character recognition, to segment input character is important. This paper proposes an internal character segmentation algorithm. The internal segmentation algorithm produces candidate words by considering possible combinations of Korean alphabets. In this process, we make use of projections of strokes onto the horizontal axis to remove ambiguities among candidate words. As a result of experiments, the internal segmentation algorithm shows better performance than external segmentation algorithm as the gap between sample characters becomes smaller.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.469-472
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• 2003

Skew is inevitably occurred in a scanned document image Thus, character recognition systems are generally very sensitive to a skew angle. In this paper, we propose a robust slant correction algorithm based on dithering and estimating vortical transition. Character strings are segmented by projecting the vertical transition point and the slant corrected image. The segmentation method using the vertical transition point can effectively split the character strings touching vertically each other. Experimental results show that the proposed method has achieved robust slant correction and good performance of character string segmentation.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.410-422
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• 1997

In this paper, we descried a bottom-up document structure analysis method in bilingual Korean-English document. We proposed a character segmentation method based on the layout information of connected component of each character. In many researches, a document has been analyzed into text blocks and graphics. We analyzed a document into four parts: text, table, graphic, and separator. A text is recursively subdivided into text blocks, text lines, words, and characters. To extract the character in bilingual text, we proposed a new method of word of word separation of Korean or English. Futhermore, we used a character merging and segmentation method in accordance with the properties of Hangul on the Korean word blocks. Experimental results on the various documents show that the proposed method is very effectively operated on the document structure analysis and the character segmentation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.729-739
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• 2010

Due to the rapid development of mobile devices equipped with cameras, instant translation of any text seen in any context is possible. Mobile devices can serve as a translation tool by recognizing the texts presented in the captured scenes. Images captured by cameras will embed more external or unwanted effects which need not to be considered in traditional optical character recognition (OCR). In this paper, we segment a text image captured by mobile devices into individual single characters to facilitate OCR kernel processing. Before proceeding with character segmentation, text detection and text line construction need to be performed in advance. A novel character segmentation method which integrates touched character filters is employed on text images captured by cameras. In addition, periphery features are extracted from the segmented images of touched characters and fed as inputs to support vector machines to calculate the confident values. In our experiment, the accuracy rate of the proposed character segmentation system is 94.90%, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.