• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.1546-1552
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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(Pocket PC) for supporting natural and convenient data input. One of the most important issues 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.461-463
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• 1999

컴퓨터 발전되면서 컴퓨터는 소형화 되어져 왔다. 컴퓨터의 소형화란 사람들이 들고 다니면서 어디서든지 쉽게 사용할 수 휴대성이 만족되어져야 한다. 휴대성을 만족하기 위해서 입력장치의 간편화가 요구되는데 가장 널리 알려진 키보드는 너무 크기 때문에 휴대성 만족하기에는 많은 문제를 안고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 등장한 것이 전자펜이다. 전자펜은 크기도 작고 사용법도 사람들이 많이 사용하는 펜과 비슷하기 때문에 배우기 쉽다는 장점이 있다. 그러므로 전자펜을 사용하기 위해서는 전자펜을 사용했을 때 컴퓨터가 사람이 쓴 문자나 제스쳐를 인식할 수 있는 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 온라인 문자인식기술에 대해서 간략히 설명을 한 뒤, 입력한 글자를 편집할 수 있는 제스쳐 인식 기술에 대해서 설명할 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.30B no.9
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• pp.84-93
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• 1993

Recently, several nonlinear shape normalization methods have been proposed in order to compensate for the shape distortions in handwritten characters. In this paper, we review these nonlinear shape normalization methods from the two points of view : feature projection and feature density equalization. The former makes feature projection histogram by projecting a certain feature at each point of input image into horizontal-or vertical-axis and the latter equalizes the feature densities of input image by re-sampling the feature projection histogram. A systematic comparison of these methods has been made based on the following criteria: recognition rate, processing speed, computational complexity and measure of variation. Then, we present the result of quantitative evaluation of each method based on these criteria for a large variety of handwritten Hangul syllables.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.1
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• pp.147-153
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• 1995

In this paper, we propose the position- and size-independent handwritten on-line Korean character recognition system using multilayer neural networks which are trained with error back-propagation learning algorithm and the features of Hanguel consonants and vowels. Starting point, end point, and three vectors from starting point to end point of each stroke of characters inputted from mouse or tablet are applied as inputs of neural networks. If double consonants and vowels are separated by single consonants and vowels, all consonants and vowels have at most four strokes. Therefore, four neural networks learn the consonants and the vowels having each number of strokes. Also, we propose the algorithm of separating the consonants and vowels and constructing a character.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.195-200
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 글자 구분선 없이 자유로이 쓰여진 필기체 한글의 인식 방안을 보인다. 즐단위의 한글 입력 영상에서 글자의 골격선을 추출하는 새로운 방법과 골격선들 간의 접촉점과 끝점을 그래프의 노드로 표현하고, 획은 그래프의 가지로 표현하는 방안을 보인다. 한글의 글자 구성 원리는 모음을 중심으로 모아쓰므로, 그래프로 표현된 즐단위의 한글에서 모음의 시작위치 및 속성을 가지는 로드로부터 한글의 모음을 가장 먼저 유도하여 인식하고, 우측 글자 및 자소끼리의 접촉을 분리하여 초성 자음 및 종성 자음을 인식하여, 좌에서 우의 방향으로 한 문자씩 인식해 나간다. 본 논문에서의 자유로이 필기된 한글의 인식 실험은 우리나라의 주소 50개를 서로 다른 25인이 필기한 영상 데이터를 사용하였고 한글 문자의 인식율은 89%이다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.49-57
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• 2010

In this thesis, We studied on hand-written character recognition, that characters entered into a digital input device and remove noise and separating character elements using preprocessing. And processed character images has done thinning and 3-level wavelet transform for making normalized image and reducing image data. The structural method among the numerical Hangul recognition methods are suitable for recognition of printed or hand-written characters because it is usefull method deal with distortion. so that method are applied to separating elements and analysing texture. The results show that recognition by analysing texture is easily distinguished with respect to consonants. But hand-written characters are tend to decreasing successful recognition rate for the difficulty of extraction process of the starting point, of interconnection of each elements, of mis-recognition from vanishing at the thinning process, and complexity of character combinations. Some characters associated with the separation process is more complicated and sometime impossible to separating elements. However, analysis texture of the proposed character recognition with the exception of the complex handwritten is aware of the character.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.185-196
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• 1999

In this dissertation, a new off-line recognition system is proposed using a subgraph pattern, neural network. After thinning is applied to input characters, balance having a noise elimination function on location is performed. Then as the first step for recognition procedure, circular elements are extracted and recognized. From the subblock HT, space feature points such as endpoint, flex point, bridge point are extracted and a subgraph pattern is formed observing the relations among them. A region where vowel can exist is allocated and a candidate point of the vowel is extracted. Then, using the subgraph pattern dictionary, a vowel is recognized. A same method is applied to extract horizontal vowels and the vowel is recognized through a simple structural analysis. For verification of recognition subgraph in this paper, experiments are done with the most frequently used Myngjo font, Gothic font for printed characters and handwritten characters. In case of Gothic font, character recognition rate was 98.9%. For Myngjo font characters, the recognition rate was 98.2%. For handwritten characters, the recognition rate was 92.5%. The total recognition rate was 94.8% with mixed handwriting and printing characters for multi-font recognition.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.689-697
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• 2010

In this study, we propose a new procedure for improving the character recognition of text area extracted from video images. The recognition of strings extracted from video, which are mixed with Hangul, English, numbers and special characters, etc., is more difficult than general character recognition because of various fonts and size, graphic forms of letters tilted image, disconnection, miscellaneous videos, tangency, characters of low definition, etc. We improved the recognition rate by taking commonly used letters and leaving out the barely used ones instead of recognizing all of the letters, and then using SVM and RDA character recognition methods. Our numerical results indicate that combining SVM and RDA performs better than other methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.266-279
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose machine printed character recognition methods which utilize the character type information and divide the character clusters. The characters are subdivided into a total of seven types, of which six types are for Hangul according to the grapheme combination fashions and one type for English characters, numerals, and symbols. According to the character type, we separate input character image into several recognition units and recognize them by using the direction angle feature. The recognition for each character type is completed by combining recognition units which are recognized by neural networks respectively For combining a total of seven character recognizers, we implemented seven methods such as switching method, integrating method, and their several variants. As experimental results, we obtained 98.2% recognition rate of simple switching method, 90.54% of integrating one, and between 97.35% and 98.65% of five variants.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.235-247
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• 2002

For an efficient indexing and retrieval of digital video data, research on video caption extraction and recognition is required. This paper proposes methods for extracting artificial captions from video data and enhancing their image quality for an accurate Hangul and English character recognition. In the proposed methods, we first find locations of beginning and ending frames of the same caption contents and combine those multiple frames in each group by logical operation to remove background noises. During this process an evaluation is performed for detecting the integrated results with different caption images. After the multiple video frames are integrated, four different image enhancement techniques are applied to the image: resolution enhancement, contrast enhancement, stroke-based binarization, and morphological smoothing operations. By applying these operations to the video frames we can even improve the image quality of phonemes with complex strokes. Finding the beginning and ending locations of the frames with the same caption contents can be effectively used for the digital video indexing and browsing. We have tested the proposed methods with the video caption images containing both Hangul and English characters from cinema, and obtained the improved results of the character recognition.