• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2017

본 논문은 딥러닝 알고리즘을 기반으로 하여 시각장애인을 위한 표지판을 검출하고 인식하는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 크게 표지판 검출 단계와 표지판 인식 단계로 나눠지는데 표지판 검출 단계에서는 영상에서 응집 채널 특징을 추출한 뒤 아다부스트 분류기를 적용하여 표지판 관심영역을 검출하였고, 표지판 인식 단계에서는 검출한 표지판 관심영역들에 합성곱 신경망을 적용하여 어떤 표지판인지 인식하였다. 본 논문에서는 미검출된 표지판의 개수가 최대한 감소하도록 아다부스트 분류기를 설계하였고, 딥러닝 알고리즘을 사용하여 인식 정확도를 높임으로써 검출 단계에서 발생한 양성 오류들을 제거시켰다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법의 양성 오류 개수가 다른 방법들의 양성 오류 개수보다 효과적으로 감소했음을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2011년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.38 No.1(A)
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• pp.491-493
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• 2011

Traffic sign detection is the domain of automatic driver assistant systems. There are literatures for traffic sign detection using color information, however, color-based method contains ill-posed condition and to extract the region of interest is difficult. In our work, we propose a method for traffic sign detection using k-means clustering method, back-propagation neural network, and projection histogram features that yields the robustness for ill-posed condition. Using the color information of traffic signs enables k-means algorithm to cluster the region of interest for the detection efficiently. In each step of clustering, a cluster is verified by the neural network so that the cluster exactly represents the location of a traffic sign. Proposed method is practical, and yields robustness for the unexpected region of interest or for multiple detections.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.237-250
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• 2015

This paper describes a hardware-oriented algorithm and its conceptual implementation in a real-time speed limit traffic sign detection system on an automotive-oriented field-programmable gate array (FPGA). It solves the training and color dependence problems found in other research, which saw reduced recognition accuracy under unlearned conditions when color has changed. The algorithm is applicable to various platforms, such as color or grayscale cameras, high-resolution (4K) or low-resolution (VGA) cameras, and high-end or low-end FPGAs. It is also robust under various conditions, such as daytime, night time, and on rainy nights, and is adaptable to various countries' speed limit traffic sign systems. The speed limit traffic sign candidates on each grayscale video frame are detected through two simple computational stages using global luminosity and local pixel direction. Pipeline implementation using results-sharing on overlap, application of a RAM-based shift register, and optimization of scan window sizes results in a small but high-performance implementation. The proposed system matches the processing speed requirement for a 60 fps system. The speed limit traffic sign recognition system achieves better than 98% accuracy in detection and recognition, even under difficult conditions such as rainy nights, and is implementable on the low-end, low-cost Xilinx Zynq automotive Z7020 FPGA.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.696-703
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a walking guidance system for the visually impaired for use at subway stations. This system, which is based on environmental knowledge, automatically detects and recognizes both exit numbers and arrow signs from natural outdoor scenes. The visually impaired can, therefore, utilize the system to find their own way (for example, using exit numbers and the directions provided) through a subway station. The proposed walking guidance system consists mainly of three stages: (a) sign detection using the MCT-based AdaBoost technique, (b) sign recognition using support vector machines and hidden Markov models, and (c) three verification techniques to discriminate between signs and non-signs. The experimental results indicate that our sign recognition system has a high performance with a detection rate of 98%, a recognition rate of 99.5%, and a false-positive error rate of 0.152.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.279-289
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• 2011

시각 장애인을 위한 실시간 보행보조 시스템의 안전한 보행안내와 편리한 서비스를 제공하기 위해 최신 하드웨어 기술과 소프트웨어 기술이 결합되고 있다. 이 시스템은 보행자가 원하는 목적지까지 보행할 수 있도록 장애물 검출 및 인지와 장소인식, 기호인식으로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 보행보조 시스템의 중요한 요소 중 하나인 기호인식을 위해 지하철 역 내부에서의 기호 객체 검출 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 논문은 조명과 잡음이 존재하는 복잡한 환경으로부터 기호 객체 영역을 강건하게 검출할 수 있는 적응적인 특징맵을 제안하였다. 그리고 보행 시 객체의 이동, 회전 및 크기에 불변하도록 고속 제르니케 모멘트 특징을 이용하여 기호를 인식한다. 화살표, 화장실, 출구번호 3개의 기호를 대상으로 하며, 에이다부스트 분류기를 이용하여 기호를 학습 및 인식한다. 실험결과에서는 5000장의 기호영상 데이터 베이스의 3개의 기호에 대해 평균 87.16%의 검출율과 20 frame/sec의 처리속도를 통해 안정적이며 실시간 시스템에 적합함을 입증한다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -3
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• pp.1662-1665
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• 2002

This paper proposes a novel semantic feature detection (SFD) method for real-time image transmission of sign language and finger spelling. We extract semantic information as an interlingua from input text by natural language processing, and then transmit the semantic feature detection, which actually is a parameterized action representation, to the 3-D articulated humanoid models prepared in each client in remote locations. Once the SFD is received, the virtual human will be animated by the synthesized SFD. The experimental results based on Japanese sign langauge and Chinese sign langauge demonstrate that this algorithm is effective in real-time image delivery of sign language and finger spelling.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.73-79
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• 1998

In this paper, a new traffic sign detection algorithm.. and a symbol recognition algorithm are proposed. For traffic sign detection, a dominant color transform is introduced, which serves as a tool of highlighting a dominant primary color, while discarding the other two primary colors. For symbol recognition, the curvilinear shape distribution on a circle centered on the centroid of symbol, called a circular pattern vector, is used as a spatial feature of symbol. The circular pattern vector is invariant to scaling, translation, and rotation. As simulation results, the effectiveness of traffic sign detection and recognition algorithms are confirmed, and it is shown that group of circular patter vectors based on concentric circles is more effective than circular pattern vector of a single circle for a given equivalent number of elements of vectors.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.252-263
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• 2016

Road sign is an important street furniture that gives some information such as road conditions, driving direction and condition for a driver. Thus, road sign is a major target of image recognition for self-driving car, ADAS(autonomous vehicle and intelligent driver assistance systems), and ITS(intelligent transport systems). In this paper, an enhanced road sign recognition system is proposed for MMS(Mobile Mapping System) using the single camera and GPS. For the proposed system, first, a road sign recognition scheme is proposed. this scheme is composed of detection and classification step. In the detection step, object candidate regions are extracted in image frames using hybrid road sign detection scheme that is based on color and shape features of road signs. And, in the classification step, the area of candidate regions and road sign template are compared. Second, a Geo-marking scheme for geo-content that is consist of road sign image and coordinate value is proposed. If the serious situation such as car accident is happened, this scheme can protect geographical information of road sign against illegal users. By experiments with test video set, in the three parts that are road sign recognition, coordinate value estimation and geo-marking, it is confirmed that proposed schemes can be used for MMS in commercial area.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.631-653
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• 2020

Sign language is a natural, visually oriented and non-verbal communication channel between people that facilitates communication through facial/bodily expressions, postures and a set of gestures. It is basically used for communication with people who are deaf or hard of hearing. In order to understand such communication quickly and accurately, the design of a successful sign language translation system is considered in this paper. The proposed system includes object detection and classification stages. Firstly, Single Shot Multi Box Detection (SSD) architecture is utilized for hand detection, then a deep learning structure based on the Inception v3 plus Support Vector Machine (SVM) that combines feature extraction and classification stages is proposed to constructively translate the detected hand gestures. A sign language fingerspelling dataset is used for the design of the proposed model. The obtained results and comparative analysis demonstrate the efficiency of using the proposed hybrid structure in sign language translation.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2000

In this paper, a vision-based roadway detection algorithm for an automated vehicle control system, based on roadway sign information on roads, is proposed. First, in order to detect roadway signs, the color scene image is enhanced under hue-invariance. Fuzzy logic is employed to simplify the enhanced color image into a binary image and the binary image is morphologically filtered. Then, an effective algorithm of locating signs based on binary rank order transform (BROT) is utilized to extract signs from the image. This algorithm performs better than those previously presented. Finally, the inner shapes of roadway signs with curving roadway direction information are recognized by neural networks. Experimental results show that the new detection algorithm is simple and robust, and performs well on real sign detection. The results also show that the neural networks used can exactly recognize the inner shapes of signs even for very noisy shapes.