• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.269-281
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• 2001

This thesis deals with a novel font-dependent Hangul recognition algorithm invariant to position translation, scaling, and rotation using circular pattern vectors. The proposed algorithm removes noise from input letters using binary morphology and generates the circular pattern vectors. The generated circular pattern vectors represent spatial distributions on several concentric circles from the center of gravity in a given letter. Then the algorithm selects the letter minimizing the distance between the reference vectors and the generated circular pattern vectors. In order to estimate performances of the proposed algorithm, the completed Batang Hangul 2,350 letters were used as test images with scaling and rotational transformations. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm are better than conventional algorithm using the ring projection in the recognition rates of Hangul letters with scaling and rotational transformation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.1379-1389
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• 1996

Hangul character always consists of consonants-vowel-consonants in order. Using this point, this paper proposes an approach to design a model for spotting each letter in Hangul, and then recognize characters based on the spotting results. The network model consist of a set of HMMs. The letter search is carried out by Viterbi algorithm, while character recognition is performed by searching the lattice of letter hypotheses. Experimental results show that, in spite of simple architecture of recognition, the performance is quite high reaching 87.47% for discrete regular characters. In particular the approach shows highly plausible segmentation of letters in characters.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.24-35
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• 2018

Deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) is an advanced technology in image recognition. Because of extreme computing resource requirements, DCNN implementation with software alone cannot achieve real-time requirement. Therefore, the need to implement DCNN accelerator hardware is increasing. In this paper, we present a field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based hardware accelerator design of DCNN targeting handwritten Hangul character recognition application. Also, we present design optimization techniques in SDAccel environments for searching the optimal FPGA design space. The techniques we used include memory access optimization and computing unit parallelism, and data conversion. We achieved about 11.19 ms recognition time per character with Xilinx FPGA accelerator. Our design optimization was performed with Xilinx HLS and SDAccel environment targeting Kintex XCKU115 FPGA from Xilinx. Our design outperforms CPU in terms of energy efficiency (the number of samples per unit energy) by 5.88 times, and GPGPU in terms of energy efficiency by 5 times. We expect the research results will be an alternative to GPGPU solution for real-time applications, especially in data centers or server farms where energy consumption is a critical problem.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.27-76
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• 1989

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.139-160
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• 1991

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.73-97
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• 1995

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.332-339
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• 1986

This paper proposes a new method for the normalization of shape pattern based on Gaussian probability density function to increase automatic recognition rate of hand-written Hangul pattern. The sizes of hand-written Hangul pattern are detected from the input images, and pattern sizes are normalized by two variables interpolation. The pattrn shapes are noralized by letting correlation coefficients equal to zero. It is analyzed theoretically and verified through computer simulation for the relation between input image and normaized shape pattern. It is confirmed that this method is effective and reasonable for deformed hand-written Hangul pattern. Experimental resu results show that the declination. size and stroke width of hand-written Hangul patterns are mych improved.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.33-50
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• 1990

Recently, neural networks have been proposed as computaional models for hard prlblems that the brain appears to solve easily. This paper proposes a hierarchical network which practically recognizes printed Hangul characters based on the various psychological stueies. This system is composed of a type classification netwotk and six recognition networks. The former clessifier input character images into one of the six thper by their overall sturcture, and the latter further classify them into character code. Extperiments with most frequently used 990 printed hangul characters conform the superiority of the propsed system. After all, neural nework approach turns out to be very reasonable through a comparison with statistical classifier and an analysis of mis-classification and generalization capability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.244-246
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 낱자 인식기와 자소 조합 인식기를 혼용한 저품질 인쇄체 한글의 고성능 인식 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법에서는 입력 문자를 한글 6형식과 기타 형식의 문자, 총 7종으로 분류한, 입력문자를 인식 대상 문자의 수와 자소 복잡도에 따라 하나 또는 두 개의 인식 단위(HRU: Hangul recognition unit)로 분리하여 인식한다. 각 인식 단위 영상에서 추출한 방향각 특징을 다층신경망 인식기를 이용하여 인식한다. 다음으로, 각 다층신경망 인식기의 신뢰도를 조합하여 최종 인식 결과를 도출한다. 제안한 방법을 사용한 실험에서 98.80%의 인식률을 얻을 수 있었으며, 이는 기존 방법에 비해 23.61%의 오류가 감소한 것이다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.161-166
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• 2004

Electronic Ink is a stored data in the form of the handwritten text or the script without converting it into ASCII by handwritten recognition on the pen-based computers and Personal Digital Assistants(PDA) for supporting natural and convenient data input. One of the most important issue is to search the electronic ink in order to use it. We proposed and implemented a script matching algorithm for the electronic ink. Proposed matching algorithm separated the input stroke into a set of primitive stroke using the curvature of the stroke curve. After determining the type of separated strokes, it produced a stroke feature vector. And then it calculated the distance between the stroke feature vector of input strokes and one of strokes in the database using the dynamic programming technique.