• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.1087-1090
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• 2014

This paper describes an overview and research work related to web page segmentation. Over a period of time, various techniques have been used and proposed to extract meaningful information from web pages automatically. Due to voluminous amount of data this extraction demanded state of the art techniques that segment the web pages just like or close to humans. Motivation behind this is to facilitate applications that rely on the meaningful data acquired from multiple web pages. Information extraction, search engines, re-organized web display for small screen devices are few strong candidate areas where web page extraction has adequate potential and utility of usage.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.9
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• pp.547-553
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• 2008

We propose a two-stage document layout segmentation method. At the first stage, as top-down segmentation, morphological distance map algorithm extracts a collection of rectangular regions from a given input image. This preliminary result from the first stage is employed as input parameters for the process of next stage. At the second stage, a machine-learning algorithm is adopted RBF network, one of neural networks based on statistical model, is selected. In order for constructing the hidden layer of RBF network, a data clustering technique bared on the self-organizing property of Kohonen network is utilized. We present a result showing that the supervised neural network, trained by 300 number of sample data, improves the preliminary results of the first stage.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.273-285
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• 2000

While page segmentation is an important step in document recognition, there haven's been many researches on it. More improvement is still needed on the segmentation of document elements in complicated or color documents. In this paper, I present a new page segmentation method which can segment pages with multiple columns, dotted lines, graphics, and photographs. I extract all connected components using contour following and combine them depending on the size and positional information of them. Separate text location is done for non-text color regions to extract possible text lines. To see the performance of the proposed method, experiments are done for 180 documents. Four commercial OCR programs are also tested and the proposed method showed the best result.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.215-220
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new texture-based page segmentation and classification method in which table region, background region, image region and text region in a given document image are automatically identified. The proposed method for document images consists of two stages, document segmentation and contents classification. In the first stage, we segment the document image, and then, we classify contents of document in the second stage. The proposed classification method is based on a texture analysis. Each contents in the document are considered as regions with different textures. Thus the problem of classification contents of document can be posed as a texture segmentation and analysis problem. Two-dimensional Gabor filters are used to extract texture features for each of these regions. Our method does not assume any a priori knowledge about content or language of the document. As we can see experiment results, our method gives good performance in document segmentation and contents classification. The proposed system is expected to apply such as multimedia data searching, real-time image processing.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

Document page segmentation is an important step in building a quality optical character recognition module. The study examined already existing work on the topic of page segmentation and focused on the development of a segmentation model that has greater functional significance for application in an organization, as well as broad capabilities for managing the quality of the model. The main problems of document segmentation were highlighted, which include a complex background of intersecting objects. As classes for detection, not only classic text, table and figure were selected, but also additional types, such as signature, logo and table without borders (or with partially missing borders). This made it possible to pose a non-trivial task of detecting non-standard document elements. The authors compared existing neural network architectures for object detection based on published research data. The most suitable architecture was RetinaNet. To ensure the possibility of quality control of the model, a method based on neural network modeling using the RetinaNet architecture is proposed. During the study, several models were built, the quality of which was assessed on the test sample using the Mean average Precision metric. The best result among the constructed algorithms was shown by a model that includes four neural networks: the focus of the first neural network on detecting tables and tables without borders, the second - seals and signatures, the third - pictures and logos, and the fourth - text. As a result of the analysis, it was revealed that the approach based on four neural networks showed the best results in accordance with the objectives of the study on the test sample in the context of most classes of detection. The method proposed in the article can be used to recognize other objects. A promising direction in which the analysis can be continued is the segmentation of tables; the areas of the table that differ in function will act as classes: heading, cell with a name, cell with data, empty cell.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.15-19
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose an efficient document layout analysis algorithm that includes table detection. Typical methods of document layout analysis use the height and gap between words or columns. To correspond to the various styles and sizes of documents, we propose an algorithm that uses the mean value of the distance transform representing thickness and compare with components in the local area. With this algorithm, we combine a table detection algorithm using the same feature as that of the text classifier. Table candidates, separators, and big components are isolated from the image using Connected Component Analysis (CCA) and distance transform. The key idea of text classification is that the characteristics of the text parallel components that have a similar thickness and height. In order to estimate local similarity, we detect a text region using an adaptive searching window size. An improved adaptive run-length smoothing algorithm (ARLSA) was proposed to create the proper boundary of a text zone and non-text zone. Results from experiments on the ICDAR2009 page segmentation competition test set and our dataset demonstrate the superiority of our dataset through f-measure comparison with other algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.4072-4091
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• 2015

A separation of text and non-text elements plays an important role in document layout analysis. A number of approaches have been proposed but the quality of separation result is still limited due to the complex of the document layout. In this paper, we present an efficient method for the classification of text and non-text components in document image. It is the combination of whitespace analysis with multi-layer homogeneous regions which called recursive filter. Firstly, the input binary document is analyzed by connected components analysis and whitespace extraction. Secondly, a heuristic filter is applied to identify non-text components. After that, using statistical method, we implement the recursive filter on multi-layer homogeneous regions to identify all text and non-text elements of the binary image. Finally, all regions will be reshaped and remove noise to get the text document and non-text document. Experimental results on the ICDAR2009 page segmentation competition dataset and other datasets prove the effectiveness and superiority of proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.384-387
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• 2019

2018년 Meltdown 공격이 발표된 이후 Foreshadow, ZombieLoad 등 다양한 종류의 마이크로아키텍처 기반 부 채널 공격과 방어 기법들이 발표되었다. 그중 Meltdown 공격을 원천 차단할 수 있는 KPTI (Kernel Page Table Isolation)는 커널 영역을 사용자 메모리 영역과 분리하여 커널 정보의 유출을 방어할 수 있으나, 최대 46%의 시스템 성능 저하를 가져온다. 본 연구는 런타임에 시스템콜 발생빈도를 분석하여 낮은 오버헤드로 Meltdown-type 공격을 탐지하고, 방어하는 프로그램을 개발하고 실험하였다. 개발한 Fault Monitoring Tool은 기존 시스템 대비 적은 오버헤드(최대 7%)로 악의적인 사용자를 구분해 내고 방어할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.14-20
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• 2003

In this paper efficient skew estimation and correction approaches are proposed. To detect the skew of text images, Hough transform using the perpendicular angle view property and shape moments are peformed. The resultant primary text skew angle is used to align the original text. The performance evaluations of the proposed methods with respect to running time are shown.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.71-74
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 새로운 문자 분할 알고리즘을 제안한다. 고전적인 문자 분할 알고리즘은 학술적인 문서영상과 같이 단순한 구조를 가진 문서영상을 대상으로 하여 좋은 성능을 보였지만 다양한 문자 크기와 색상, 그림, 복잡한 배경 등으로 구성된 문서영상에서는 좋지 못한 성능을 보인다. 최근에 제안고 있는 방법들은 복잡한 문서영상에서도 좋은 성능을 보이도록 다양한 기법들을 적용하여 우수한 성능을 보이고 있지만, 대부분의 방법들이 영상을 일정한 크기의 블록으로 나누어 문자분할을 하기 때문에 세밀한 부분에서는 성능이 어느 정도 한계를 보인다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 블록의 크기에 제한을 갖지 않는 새로운 방법으로서, watershed 알고리즘을 이용한 문자분할 방법을 제시한다. 구체적으로, watershed 알고리즘을 이용하여 문서영상의 구조(docstrum)를 파악하고 이를 기반으로 문자를 분할한다. 제안하는 방법은 크게 엣지 검출, distance transform, watershed 알고리즘을 이용한 docstrum 분석, 문자 분할의 네 단계를 거친다. 실험 결과 블록에 기반한 기존의 방법들이 놓치는 세밀한 부분에서도 제안된 알고리즘은 올바른 분할결과를 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.