• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.1997-2003
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• 2009

Methods for effective musical score recognition and efficient editing of musical scores are demanded because functions of computers for researches on musical activities become more and more important parts in recent days. In the conventional methods for handling musical scores manually, there are weak points such as incorrect score symbols in input process and requirement of much time to adjust the incorrect symbols. And also there is another weak point that the scores edited by each application program can be remodified by a specific application program only. In this paper, we proposed a method for automatic musical score recognition of printed musical scores in order to make up for the weak points. In the proposed method, staffs in a scanned score image are eliminated by horizontal histogram, noises are removed by 4 directional edge tracking algorithm, and then musical score symbols are extracted by using Grassfire algorithm. The extracted symbols are recognized by hierarchical ART2 algorithm. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we used 100 musical scores for experiment. In the experiment, we verified that the proposed method using hierarchical ART2 algorithm is efficient.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.369-374
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• 2008

음악 연구에 따른 컴퓨터의 역할이 점자 중요한 비중을 차지함에 따라 보다 효과적인 악보 인식과 효율적인 악보의 편집 및 수정 방법이 요구된다. 기존의 수동 입력 방식에서는 악보를 부정확하게 입력하여 수정하는 경우에는 작업 시간이 많이 소요되며, 각 수정 프로그램에서 만든 악보는 특정 프로그램에서만 재수정이 가능하다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 보완하기 위하여 이미 작성 되어있는 악보들을 자동으로 인식하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 악보 인식 방법은 수평 히스토그램을 이용하여 악보 이미지의 오선을 제거한 후, 4방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 잡음을 제거하고 Grassfire 알고리즘을 적용하여 악보 구성 기호들을 추출한다. 추출된 악보 구성 기호들은 Hierarchical ART2 알고리즘을 적용하여 인식한다. 인식된 악보구성 기초들을 이용하여 악보 구성 기호들이 속하는 마디의 위치 정보를 각각 저장하고 향후에 악보 구성 기호의 편집과 수정이 용이하게 한다. 제안된 악보 인식 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 100장의 악보 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제시된 Hierarchical ART2 알고리즘을 이용한 악보 영상의 인식 방법이 실험을 통해서 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.195-200
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• 2002

ART (Adaptive Resonance Theory [1]) neural network and its variations perform non-hierarchical clustering by unsupervised learning. We propose a scheme "arboART" for hierarchical clustering by using several ART1.5-SSS networks. It classifies multidimensional vectors as a cluster tree, and finds features of clusters. The Basic idea of arboART is to use the prototype formed in an ART network as an input to other ART network that has looser distance criteria (Ishihara, et al., [2,3]). By sending prototype vectors made by ART to one after another, many small categories are combined into larger and more generalized categories. We can draw a dendrogram using classification records of sample and categories. We have confirmed its ability using standard test data commonly used in pattern recognition community. The clustering result is better than traditional computing methods, on separation of outliers, smaller error (diameter) of clusters and causes no chaining. This methodology is applied to Kansei evaluation experiment data analysis.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.7_8
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• pp.649-658
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• 2003

We propose a hierarchical architecture of ART2 Network for performance improvement and fast pattern classification model using fitness selection. This hierarchical network creates coarse clusters as first ART2 network layer by unsupervised learning, then creates fine clusters of the each first layer as second network layer by supervised learning. First, it compares input pattern with each clusters of first layer and select candidate clusters by fitness measure. We design a optimized fitness function for pruning clusters by measuring relative distance ratio between a input pattern and clusters. This makes it possible to improve speed and accuracy. Next, it compares input pattern with each clusters connected with selected clusters and finds winner cluster. Finally it classifies the pattern by a label of the winner cluster. Results of our experiments show that the proposed method is more accurate and fast than other approaches.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1287-1292
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• 2005

This paper presents an effective pattern classification model by designing an artificial neural network based pattern classifiers for face recognition. First, a RGB image inputted from a frame grabber is converted into a HSV image which is similar to the human beings' vision system. Then, the coarse facial region is extracted using the hue(H) and saturation(S) components except intensity(V) component which is sensitive to the environmental illumination. Next, the fine facial region extraction process is performed by matching with the edge and gray based templates. To make a light-invariant and qualified facial image, histogram equalization and intensity compensation processing using illumination plane are performed. The finally extracted and enhanced facial images are used for training the pattern classification models. The proposed H-ART2 model which has the hierarchical ART2 layers and F-LVQ model which is optimized by fuzzy membership make it possible to classify facial patterns by optimizing relations of clusters and searching clustered reference patterns effectively. Experimental results show that the proposed face recognition system is as good as the SVM model which is famous for face recognition field in recognition rate and even better in classification speed. Moreover high recognition rate could be acquired by combining the proposed neural classification models.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.4189-4202
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a priority-based unequal error protection scheme of data partitioned H.264/AVC video with hierarchical quadrature amplitude modulation. In order to map data with higher priority onto the most significant bits of QAM constellation points, a priority sorting method categorizes different data partitions according to the unequal importance factor of encoded video data in one group of pictures by evaluated the average distortion. Then we propose a hierarchical quadrature amplitude modulation arrangement with adaptive constellation distances, which takes into account the unequal importance of encoded video data and the channel status. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the received video quality by about 2 dB in PSNR comparing with the state-of-the-art unequal error protection scheme, and outperforms EEP scheme by up to 5 dB when the average channel SNR is low.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.83-88
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• 2016

Subtopic mining is the extraction and ranking of possible subtopics, which disambiguate and specify the search intentions of an input query in terms of relevance, popularity, and diversity. This paper describes the limitations of previous studies on the utilization of web resources, and proposes a subtopic mining method with a two-level hierarchy based on hierarchical search intentions and web resources, in order to overcome these limitations. Considering the characteristics of resources provided by the official subtopic mining task, we extract various second-level subtopics reflecting hierarchical search intentions from web documents, and expand and re-rank them using other provided resources. Terms in subtopics with wider search intentions are used to generate first-level subtopics. Our method performed better than state-of-the-art methods in almost every aspect.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.415-423
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• 2018

In recent years, Computer-based learning, such as machine learning and deep learning in the computer field, is attracting attention. They start learning from the lowest level and propagate the result to the highest level to calculate the final result. Research literature has shown that systematic learning and growth can yield good results. However, systematic models based on systematic models are hard to find, compared to various and extensive research attempts. To this end, this paper proposes the first TNT(Transitive Nested Triangle)model, which is a growth and fusion model that can be used in various aspects. This model can be said to be a recursive model in which each function formed through geometric forms an organic hierarchical relationship, and the result is used again as they grow and converge to the top. That is, it is an analytical method called 'Horizontal Sibling Merges and Upward Convergence'. This model is applicable to various aspects. In this study, we focus on explaining the TNT model.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.4
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• pp.443-450
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed the novel hierarchical algorithm for the recognition of English calling cards that processes multiresolution images of calling cards hierarchically to extract individual characters and recognizes the extracted characters by using the enhanced neural network method. The hierarchical recognition algorithm generates multiresolution images of calling cards, and each processing step in the algorithm selects and processes the image with suitable resolution for lower processing overhead and improved output. That is, first, the image of 1/3 times resolution, to which the horizontal smearing method is applied, is used to extract the areas including only characters from the calling card image, and next, by applying the vertical smearing and the contour tracking masking, the image of a half time resolution is used to extract individual characters from the character string areas. Lastly, the original image is used in the recognition step, because the image includes the morphological information of characters accurately. And for the recognition of characters with diverse font types and various sizes, the enhanced RBF network that improves the middle layer based on the ART1 was proposed and applied. The results of experiments on a large number of calling card images showed that the proposed algorithm is greatly improved in the performance of character extraction and recognition compared with the traditional recognition algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.418-421
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• 2007

In this paper, we proposed a hierarchical nearest-neighbor searching method for deciding fitness of a clustered segment. It is difficult to distinguish the difference between correct spots and atypical noisy spots in footprint patterns. Therefore we could not completely remove unsuitable noisy spots from binarized image in image preprocessing stage or clustering stage. As a preprocessing stage for recognition of insect footprints, this method decides whether a segment is suitable or not, using degree of clustered segment fitness, and then unsuitable segments are eliminated from patterns. Removing unsuitable segments can improve performance of feature extraction for recognition of inset footprints.