• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.951-959
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• 2017

In this paper, we design and implement an Android-based Hangul food menu recognition application that recognizes characters from images captured by a smart phone. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is divided into preprocessing, recognition and post-processing. In the preprocessing process, the characters are extracted using Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER). In recognition process, Tesseract-OCR, a free OCR engine, is used to recognize characters. In the post-processing process, the wrong result is corrected by using the dictionary DB for the food menu. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, experiments were conducted to compare the recognition performance using the actual menu plate as the DB. The recognition rate measurement experiment with OCR Instantly Free, Text Scanner and Text Fairy, which is a character recognizing application in Google Play Store, was conducted. The experimental results show that the proposed method shows an average recognition rate of 14.1% higher than other techniques.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.337-345
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• 2009

When the drill hole diameter for the package substrate is under $100{\mu}m$, the smear in the drill hole cannot be eliminated by wet desmear process only. We intended to change the substrate's hydrophobic characteristics to hydrophilic characteristics by adapting the atmospheric pressure plasma prior to the wet desmear process. Atmospheric pressure plasma process was made as the inline type equipment which is adequate for the package substrate's manufacturing process and remote DBD type electrodes were used for the equipment. As the result of atmospheric pressure plasma processing, the contact angle of the substrate was enhanced from 71 degree to 30 degree. Dielectric film thickness, drill hole diameter and surface roughness were measured to evaluated the characteristics of the wet desmear process in case of plasma processing and in case of none. By the measurement, it was analyzed that the process uniformity within the whole panel was largely enhanced. Also, it was verified that the smear in the drill hole was eliminated efficiently which was analyzed by the SEM image of the drill hole.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.91-98
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• 2019

Accidents of worker that occur in isolated places are difficult to rescue, unlike general construction accidents. There is a problem of communication limitation when an accident occurs in an isolated place. Also, it is difficult to search the accident place due to the absence of CCTV. In order to solve these problems, this paper proposes a device that combines IoT technology with a safety helmet, which must be worn in the workplace. The proposed device additionally designs and implements a real-time PPG(Photoplethysmography) sensor, body temperature sensor, accelerometer sensor and a camera sensor on the helmet. The proposed helmet system allows the user and the control center to monitor the state of the worker. In addition, when an abnormal biological signal or fall occurs to the worker, the image is transmitted to the control center. By using the proposed system, it is possible to check the status of the worker in real time, so that it has an advantage that it can cope with the accident quickly.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.535-543
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new gaze detection method using 2-D facial images captured by a camera on top of the monitor. We consider only the facial rotation and translation and not the eyes' movements. The proposed method computes the gaze point caused by the facial rotation and the amount of the facial translation respectively, and by combining these two the final gaze point on a monitor screen can be obtained. We detected the gaze point caused by the facial rotation by using a neural network(a multi-layered perceptron) whose inputs are the 2-D geometric changes of the facial features' points and estimated the amount of the facial translation by image processing algorithms in real time. Experimental results show that the gaze point detection accuracy between the computed positions and the real ones is about 2.11 inches in RMS error when the distance between the user and a 19-inch monitor is about 50~70cm. The processing time is about 0.7 second with a Pentium PC(233MHz) and 320${\times}$240 pixel-size images.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.606-619
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• 1998

In this paper, we have tfesigned and ihlplemented ACE(Application sharing Collaboration Engine) which is pessible an application sharing to collaborate among peoples who are geographically dispersed. The application sharing is a technology whereby two or more users collaborate to share the output of single application running on one computer system to the other users, and to provide input to the applications. We defined ASO(Applicatio!1 Sharing Object) object and its behavior to share applications in real time and ACE processes a sharing using ASO object among the distributed systems. ASO is classified into activateASO, updateASO, inputASO, and controlASO. The each ASO's behavior involves both events which occur at specific moments such as keystrokes and mouse clicks and more persistent status which can be observed at any time such as the image on the screen. The implemented ACE can be applied to the data conferencing, distance education, and project collaboration for engineer in distributed environments.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.68-75
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• 2017

This study deals with a color-based tracking method of a moving object effectively in case that the color of the moving object is same as or similar to that of background. The CamShift algorithm, which is the representative color-based tracking method, shows unstable tracking when the color of moving objects exists in the background. In order to overcome the drawback, this paper proposes the CamShift algorithm merged with depth information of the object. Depth information can be obtained from Kinect device which measures the distance information of all pixels in an image. Experimental result shows that the proposed tracking method, the Camshift merged with depth information of the tracking object, makes up for the unstable tracking of the existing CamShift algorithm and also shows improved tracking performance in comparison with only CamShift algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.798-801
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• 2014

여행 정보 시스템(ATIS), 교통 관리 시스템 (ITS) 등 궤적 기반 서비스에서, 서비스 품질을 향상시키기 위해서는 주어진 궤적 질의에 대한 정확한 주행시간을 예측하는 것이 필수적이다. 이를 위한 대표적인 공간 데이터 분석 기법으로는 데이터 분류에서 높은 정확도를 보장하는 규칙 기반 분류화 기법이 존재한다. 그러나 기존 규칙 기반 분류화 기법은 단일 컴퓨터 환경만을 고려하기 때문에, 대용량 공간 데이터 처리에 적합하지 않은 문제점이 존재한다. 이를 해결하기 위해, 본 연구에서는 맵리듀스 환경에서 규칙 기반 분류화를 이용한 궤적 데이터 주행 시간 예측 알고리즘을 개발하고자 한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 첫째, 맵리듀스를 이용하여 대용량 공간 데이터를 병렬적으로 분석함으로써, 활용도 높은 궤적 데이터 규칙을 생성한다. 이를 통해 대용량 공간 데이터 기반의 규칙 생성 시간을 감소시킨다. 둘째, 그리드 구조 기반의 지도 데이터 분할을 통해, 사용자 질의처리 시 탐색 성능을 향상시킨다. 즉, 주행 시간 예측을 위한 규칙 그룹을 탐색 시 질의를 포함하는 그리드 셀만을 탐색하기 때문에, 질의처리 성능이 향상된다. 마지막으로 맵리듀스 구조에 적합한 질의처리 알고리즘을 설계하여, 효율적인 병렬 질의처리를 지원한다. 이를 위해 맵 함수에서는 선정된 그리드 셀에 대해, 질의에 포함된 도로 구간에서의 주행 시간을 병렬적으로 측정한다. 아울러 리듀스 함수에서는 출발 시간 및 구간별 주행 시간을 바탕으로 맵 함수의 결과를 병합함으로써, 최종 결과를 생성한다. 이를 통해 공간 빅데이터 분석을 통한 주행 시간 예측 기법의 처리 시간 및 결과 정확도를 향상시킨다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.101-108
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• 2019

Due to recent improvements in computer processing speed and image processing technology, researches are being actively carried out to combine information from camera with existing GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and dead reckoning. In this study, developed a vision-based positioning assistant algorithm to estimate the distance to the object from stereo images. In addition, GNSS/on-board vehicle sensor/vision based positioning algorithm is developed by combining vision based positioning algorithm with existing positioning algorithm. For the performance analysis, the velocity calculated from the actual driving test was used for the navigation solution correction, simulation tests were performed to analyse the effects of velocity precision. As a result of analysis, it is confirmed that about 4% of position accuracy is improved when vision information is added compared to existing GNSS/on-board based positioning algorithm.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.111-117
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a mobile remicon quality management system to enable inspection and correspondence with a smart phone in the field check of remicon. We also proposed a real-time slump data processing part to digitize field inspection and XML formats for data exchange with the server. We used the smart phone to transmit real-time image about field inspection of remicon and judged the error at the same time. By doing this, we shared the situation of the remicon products in the field and the head office. Based on the actual results, the development technology is used to determine whether the product is abnormal or not, and to provide appropriate information to the company and the site. Based on the analysis of raw material quality data, it is possible to present real time optimal blending ratio according to raw material import with raw material management data, which is the biggest problem of the ready mixed concrete industry.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.16-23
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• 2021

Lithium carbonate recovered from the waste solution generated during the lithium secondary battery manufacturing process contains heavy metals such as cobalt, nickel, and manganese. In this study, the recrystallization of lithium carbonate was performed to remove heavy metals contained in the powder and to increase the purity of lithium carbonate. First, the leaching efficiency of lithium carbonate according to pH in the aqueous hydrochloric acid solution was examined, and the effect on the recrystallization of lithium carbonate according to the equivalent and concentration of sodium carbonate was confirmed. As the equivalent and concentration of sodium carbonate increased, the recovery rate of lithium carbonate improved. And the SEM image showed that the crystal shape was changed depending on the reaction conditions with sodium carbonate. Finally, the high purity lithium carbonate of 99.9% or more was recovered by washing with water.