• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.9
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• pp.683-690
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• 2009

One of the major problems that prevent us from building a good recognition system for large-scale on-line Chinese character recognition using HMMs is increasing recognition time. In this paper, we propose a clustering method to solve recognition speed problem and an efficient distance measure between HMMs. From the experiments, we got about twice the recognition speed and 95.37% 10-candidate recognition accuracy, which is only 0.9% decrease, for 20,902 Chinese characters defined in Unicode CJK unified ideographs.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.414-420
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• 2006

Online character recognition techniques have been applied in many new fields of PDA, Tablet PC etc. But the recognition techniques can not use such high technologies naturally yet. Hidden Markov Model (HMM) that is much used recently requires high memory space and complex computational tasks because of comparing the input data with entire standard patterns. In this paper we propose a method to recognize the online characters more efficiently. At first we create chain-codes of learning data and recognition data in preprocessing phase, and then we compress dimensions of data using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and recognize a character compressed data in recognition phrase. Validity of proposed method .is verified. by experiment results.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.7_8
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• pp.713-718
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• 2003

The CONDENSATION (Conditional Density Propagation) algorithm has a robust tracking performance and suitability for real-time implementation. However, the CONDENSATION tracker has some difficulties with real-time implementation for multiple people tracking since it requires very complicated shape modeling and a large number of samples for precise tracking performance. Further, it shows a poor tracking performance in the case of close or partially occluded people. To overcome these difficulties, we present three improvements: First, we construct effective templates of people´s shapes using the SOM (Self-Organizing Map). Second, we take the discrete HMM (Hidden Markov Modeling) for an accurate dynamical model of the people´s shape transition. Third, we use the competition rule to separate close or partially occluded people effectively. Simulation results shows that the proposed CONDENSATION algorithm can achieve robust and real-time tracking in the image sequences of a crowd of people.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.10A no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a new Korean connected digit recognition based on vowel string and number of syllables. There are two steps to reduce digit candidates. The first one is to determine the number and interval of digit. Once the number and interval of digit are determined, the second is to recognize the vowel string in the digit string. The digit candidates according to vowel string are recognized based on CV (consonant vowel), VCCV and VC unit HMM. The proposed method can cope effectively with the coarticulation effects and recognize the connected digit speech very well.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.9C
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• pp.907-912
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• 2005

An efficient method for calculation of observation probability in CDHMM(Continous Density Hidden Markov Model) is proposed in this paper. the proposed algorithm, called FCOP(Fast Computation of Observation Probability), approximate obsewation probabilities in CDHMM by eliminating insignificant PDFs(Probability Density Functions) and reduces the computational load. When applied to a speech recognition system, the proposed FCOP algorithm can reduce the instruction cycles by $20\%-30\%$ and can also increase the recognition speed about $30\%$ while minimizing the loss in its recognition rate. When implemented on a practical cellular phone, the FCOP algorithm can increase its recognition speed about $30\%$ while suffering $0.2\%$ loss in recognition rate.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.475-483
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• 2012

The characteristic features of speech signal do not vary significantly from frame to frame. Therefore, it is advisable to reduce the redundancy involved in the similar feature vectors. The objective of this paper is to search for the optimal condition of minimum redundancy and maximum relevancy of the speech feature vectors in speech recognition. For this purpose, we realize redundancy reduction by way of a vigilance parameter and investigate the resultant effect on the speaker-independent speech recognition of isolated words by using FVQ/HMM. Experimental results showed that the number of feature vectors might be reduced by 30% without deteriorating the speech recognition accuracy.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.6
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• pp.219-233
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• 1999

This paper presents a real-time implementation of a speaker independent speech recognition system based on a discrete hidden markov model(DHMM). This system is developed for a car navigation system to design on-chip VLSI system of speech recognition which is used by fixed point Oak DSP core of DSP GROUP LTD. We analyze recognition procedure with C language to implement fixed point real-time algorithms. Based on the analyses, we improve the algorithms which are possible to operate in real-time, and can verify the recognition result at the same time as speech ends, by processing all recognition routines within a frame. A car noise is the colored noise concentrated heavily on the low frequency segment under 400 Hz. For the noise robust processing, the high pass filtering and the liftering on the distance measure of feature vectors are applied to the recognition system. Recognition experiments on the twelve isolated command words were performed. The recognition rates of the baseline recognizer were 98.68% in a stopping situation and 80.7% in a running situation. Using the noise processing methods, the recognition rates were enhanced to 89.04% in a running situation.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.41-47
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• 2017

The main advantage of the statistical parametric speech synthesis is its flexibility in changing voice characteristics. A personalized text-to-speech(TTS) system can be implemented by combining a speech synthesis system and a voice transformation system, and it is widely used in many application areas. It is known that the fundamental frequency and the spectral envelope of speech signal can be independently modified to convert the voice characteristics. Also it is important to maintain naturalness of the transformed speech. In this paper, a speech synthesis system based on Hidden Markov Model(HMM-based speech synthesis, HTS) using the STRAIGHT vocoder is constructed and voice transformation is conducted by modifying the fundamental frequency and spectral envelope. The fundamental frequency is transformed in a scaling method, and the spectral envelope is transformed through frequency warping method to control the speaker's vocal tract length. In particular, this study proposes a voice transformation method using the correlation between fundamental frequency and vocal tract length. Subjective evaluations were conducted to assess preference and mean opinion scores(MOS) for naturalness of synthetic speech. Experimental results showed that the proposed voice transformation method achieved higher preference than baseline systems while maintaining the naturalness of the speech quality.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.305-312
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• 1994

품사 태깅은 코퍼스에 정확한 품사 정보를 첨가하는 작업이다. 많은 단어는 하나 이상의 품사를 갖는 중의성이 있으며, 품사 태깅은 지역적 문맥을 이용하여 품사 중의성을 해결한다. 한국어에서 품사 중의성은 다양한 원인에 의해서 발생한다. 일반적으로 동형 이품사 형태소에 의해 발생되는 품사 중의성은 문맥 확률과 어휘 확률에 의해 해결될 수 있지만, 이형 동품사 형태소에 의해 발생되는 품사 중의성은 상호 정보나 의미 정보가 있어야만 해결될 수 있다. 그리나, 기존의 한국어 품사 태깅 방법은 문맥 확률과 어휘 확률만을 이용하여 모든 품사 중의성을 해결하려 하였다. 본 논문은 어절 태깅 단계에서는 중의성을 최소화하고, 형태소 태깅 단계에서는 최소화된 중의성 중에서 하나를 결정하는 두단계 태깅 방법을 제시한다. 제안된 어절 태깅 방법은 단순화된 어절 태그를 이용하므로 품사 집합에 독립적이면, 대량의 어절을 소량의 의사 부류에 사상하므로 통계 정보의 양이 적다. 또한, 은닉 마르코프 모델을 이용하므로 태깅되지 않은 원시 코퍼스로부터 학습이 가능하며, 적은 수의 파라메터와 Viterbi 알고리즘을 이용하므로 태깅 속도가 효율적이다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.43 no.4 s.310
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

This paper presents a development of a mobile sign language recognition system for daily communication of deaf people, who are sign dependent to access language, with hearing people. The system observes their sign by a cap-mounted camera and accelerometers equipped on wrists. To create a real application working in mobile environment, which is a harder recognition problem than lab environment due to illumination change and real-time requirement, a robust hand segmentation method is introduced and HMMs are adopted with a strong grammar. The result shows 99.07% word accuracy in continuous sign.