• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.1199-1205
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• 1992

In this paper, a Korean word recognition method which usese Neural Network and Hidden Markov Models(HMM) is proposed to improve a recognition rate with a small amount of learning data. The method reduces the fluctuation due to personal differences which is a problem to a HMM recognition system. In this method, effective recognizer is designed by the complement of each recognition result of the Hidden Markov Models(HMM) and Neural Network. In order to evaluate this model, word recognition experiment is carried out for 28 cities which is DDD area names uttered by two male and a female in twenties. As a result of testing HMM with 8 state, codeword is 64, the recognition rate 91[%], as a result of testing Neural network(NN) with 64 codeword the recognition rate is 89[%]. Finally, as a result of testing NN-HMM with 64 codeword which the best condition in former tests, the recognition rate is 95[%].

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.243-250
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• 2008

This paper proposes a system which extracts necessary information from call-for-paper (CFP) documents using a hidden Markov model (HMM). Even though a CFP does not follow a strict form, there is, in general, a relatively-fixed sequence of information within most CFPs. Therefore, a hiden Markov model is adopted to analyze CFPs which has an advantage of processing consecutive data. However, when CFPs are intuitively modeled with a hidden Markov model, a problem arises that the boundaries of the information are not recognized accurately. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a two-phrase hidden Markov model. In the first step, the P-HMM (Phrase hidden Markov model) which models a document with phrases recognizes CFP documents locally. Then, the D-HMM (Document hidden Markov model) grasps the overall structure and information flow of the document. The experiments over 400 CFP documents grathered on Web result in 0.49 of F-score. This performance implies 0.15 of F-measure improvement over the HMM which is intuitively modeled.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.772-779
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• 2006

The new model proposed in this paper is the hidden Markov mesh model or the 2D HMM with the causality of top-down and left-right direction. With the addition of the causality constraint, two algorithms for the evaluation of a model and the maximum likelihood estimation of model parameters have been developed theoretically which are based on the forward-backward algorithm. It is a more natural extension of the 1D HMM than other 2D models. The proposed method will provide a useful way of modeling highly variable image patterns such as offline cursive characters.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.225-225
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• 2015

Drought events usually evolve slowly in time and their impacts generally span a long period of time. This indicates that the sequence of drought is not completely random. The Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is a probabilistic model used to represent dependences between invisible hidden states which finally result in observations. Drought characteristics are dependent on the underlying generating mechanism, which can be well modelled by the HMM. This study employed a HMM with Gaussian emissions to fit the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) series and make multi-step prediction to check the drought characteristics in the future. To estimate the parameters of the HMM, we employed a Bayesian model computed via Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Since the true number of hidden states is unknown, we fit the model with varying number of hidden states and used reversible jump to allow for transdimensional moves between models with different numbers of states. We applied the HMM to several stations SPI data in South Korea. The monthly SPI data from January 1973 to December 2012 was divided into two parts, the first 30-year SPI data (January 1973 to December 2002) was used for model calibration and the last 10-year SPI data (January 2003 to December 2012) for model validation. All the SPI data was preprocessed through the wavelet denoising and applied as the visible output in the HMM. Different lead time (T= 1, 3, 6, 12 months) forecasting performances were compared with conventional forecasting techniques (e.g., ANN and ARMA). Based on statistical evaluation performance, the HMM exhibited significant preferable results compared to conventional models with much larger forecasting skill score (about 0.3-0.6) and lower Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) values (about 0.5-0.9).

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.127-129
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• 2001

입력된 문장을 분석하여 미리 정해진 범주에 따라 그 문장의 감정 상태의 천이를 출력해 주는 감정인식 시스템을 제안한다. Naive Bayes 알고리즘을 사용했던 이전 방법과 달리 새로 연구된 시스템은 Hidden Markov Model(HMM)을 사용한다. HMM은 특정 분포로 발생하는 현상에서 그 현상의 원인이 되는 상태의 천이를 찾아내는데 적합한 방법으로서, 하나의 문장에 여러 가지 감정이 표현된다는 가정 하에 감정인식에 관한 이상적인 알고리즘이라 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 HMM을 사용한 감정인식 시스템에 관한 개요를 설명하고 이전 버전에 비해 보다 향상된 실험결과를 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.336-341
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• 2000

Hidden Markov Model(HMM)을 기반으로 한 얼굴 검출과 얼굴 인식에 대한 프레임작업에 대한 것이다. 관찰 벡터는 Karhunen-Loves Transform(KLT)의 상관관계를 이용하여 얻은 HMM의 정역학 특성을 사용하였으며, 본 연구에서 보여준 얼굴인식 방법은 이전의 HMM 기반의 얼굴인식 방법에서 인식률을 약간 개선함으로써 컴퓨터 연산을 훨씬 간단히 할 수 있음을 보여준다

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.7
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• pp.523-530
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• 2007

This paper proposes a new stochastic optimization algorithm for hidden Markov models (HMMs) used as a recognizer of automatic lipreading. The proposed method combines a global stochastic optimization method, the simulated annealing technique, and the local optimization method, which produces fast convergence and good solution quality. We mathematically show that the proposed algorithm converges to the global optimum. Experimental results show that training HMMs by the method yields better lipreading performance compared to the conventional training methods based on local optimization.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.1 s.97
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• pp.9-16
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• 2005

This paper focuses on the study of the face authentication system and the robustness of fact authentication methods under illumination changes. Four different face authentication methods are tried. These methods are as fellows; PCA(Principal Component Analysis), GMM(Gaussian Mixture Modeis), 1D HMM(1 Dimensional Hidden Markov Models), Pseudo 2D HMM(Pseudo 2 Dimensional Hidden Markov Models). Experiment results involving an artificial illumination change to fate images are compared with each other. Face feature vector extraction based on the 2D DCT(2 Dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform) if used. Experiments to evaluate the above four different fate authentication methods are carried out on the ORL(Olivetti Research Laboratory) face database. Experiment results show the EER(Equal Error Rate) performance degrade in ail occasions for the varying ${\delta}$. For the non illumination changes, Pseudo 2D HMM is $2.54{\%}$,1D HMM is $3.18{\%}$, PCA is $11.7{\%}$, GMM is $13.38{\%}$. The 1D HMM have the bettor performance than PCA where there is no illumination changes. But the 1D HMM have worse performance than PCA where there is large illumination changes(${\delta}{\geq}40$). For the Pseudo 2D HMM, The best EER performance is observed regardless of the illumination changes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.197-197
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• 2016

Forecasting future drought events in a region plays a major role in water management and risk assessment of drought occurrences. The creeping characteristics of drought make it possible to mitigate drought's effects with accurate forecasting models. Drought forecasts are inevitably plagued by uncertainties, making it necessary to derive forecasts in a probabilistic framework. In this study, a new probabilistic scheme is proposed to forecast droughts, in which a discrete-time finite state-space hidden Markov model (HMM) is used aggregated with the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP) precipitation projection (HMM-RCP). The 3-month standardized precipitation index (SPI) is employed to assess the drought severity over the selected five stations in South Kore. A reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is used for inference on the model parameters which includes several hidden states and the state specific parameters. We perform an RCP precipitation projection transformed SPI (RCP-SPI) weight-corrected post-processing for the HMM-based drought forecasting to derive a probabilistic forecast that considers uncertainties. Results showed that the HMM-RCP forecast mean values, as measured by forecasting skill scores, are much more accurate than those from conventional models and a climatology reference model at various lead times over the study sites. In addition, the probabilistic forecast verification technique, which includes the ranked probability skill score and the relative operating characteristic, is performed on the proposed model to check the performance. It is found that the HMM-RCP provides a probabilistic forecast with satisfactory evaluation for different drought severity categories, even with a long lead time. The overall results indicate that the proposed HMM-RCP shows a powerful skill for probabilistic drought forecasting.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.81-87
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• 1989

This paper discribes the method associated with modeling of Korean phonemes. Hidden Markov models(HMM's) may be viewed as an effective technique for modeling the inherent nonstationarity of speech signal. We propose a 3-state phoneme model to represent the sequentially changing characteristics of phonemes, i.e., transition-to-stationary-to-transition. Also we clarify that the duration of a phoneme is an important factor to have an effect in recognition accuracy and show that improvement in recognition rate can be obtained by using duration-dependent 3-state hidden Markov models.