• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1027-1030
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• 1999

Recently many efforts on the development of automatic processing system for delivery sequence sorting have been performed in ETRI, which requires the use of postal 4 state bar code system to encode delivery points. This paper addresses the issue on the reduction of reading error in postal 4 state raster beam based bar code reader by adjusting measured values of bar code width to its average value over each interval. The test results show that the above method reduces the average reading error rate approximately by 90-100%.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회/대한산업공학회 2003년도 춘계공동학술대회
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• pp.1020-1027
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• 2003

The development of an automatic delivery sorter requires enormous cost and time, and actually it is a key business which gains control of the future of postal service for national economy. In this paper, we select executive alternatives considering the restrictive conditions both in physically and technically such as installation location, OCR location, and the types of VCS. Then, we evaluated selected alternatives through the analysis of a cost and a performance. And we also performed economy analysis reflecting on the qualitative factors.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.15-24
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• 2007

우편물의 자동구분을 위해서는 주소영상의 인식이 필수적이다. 주소영상의 인식 과정은 주소영상 전처리, 문자인식, 주소해석의 과정으로 이루어져 있다. 주소영상 전처리 과정을 통해 추출된 문자영상들은 인식과정으로 전달되고 이 과정에서 각 문자영상마다 다수의 후보문자와 인식 스코어가 생성된다. 주소해석기는 후보문자와 인식 스코어의 집합을 이용하여 유효한 최종 주소를 생성한다. 우편물의 자동구분 율은 주소영상의 인식과정에 포함된 모든 과정의 성능에 따라 좌우되는데 특히 문자인식 성능이 중요한 요인이다. 주소인식에서 좋은 문자인식기란 주소해석이 용이할 수 있도록 신뢰도 높은 후보문자를 생성하는 것이라 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 문자인식기에서 신뢰도 높은 후보문자를 생성하는 방법을 제안한다. 논문에서는 현행 우편물 자동구분기의 주소인식 시스템에서 사용되고 있는 MLP 인식기를 개별 문자인식을 위한 인식기로 사용한다. MLP 인식기는 인식 속도와 인식률 측면에서 가장 우수한 인식기의 하나로 알려져 있지만, false alarm과 같은 잘못된 결과를 생성하기도 하는데 이는 주소해석을 어렵게 만드는 주요 요인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 주소해석을 쉽게 하고 우편물 구분율을 높이기 위해 기 구현된 MLP 인식기의 출력값을 재추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 재추정값의 신뢰도를 높이기 위한 인식기의 통계적 동작특성을 생성하는 방법과, 기존 MLP와 신뢰도 재추정기로서 동작하는 Subspace 인식기를 결합하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법의 타당성을 확인하기 위해 우체국에 설치된 우편물구분기로부터 획득한 문자영상을 이용하여 실험하였다. 실험 결과 제안 방법이 개별 문자 및 비문자에 대한 오류율과 기각률 측면에서 높은 신뢰도를 보임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국포장학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2020

As post-harvest processes of onions are carried by a 20 kg-net package which results in high-cost and low-efficiency, especially, the insufficient drying and physical damage of onions after harvesting leads to a huge second loss in storage, we had developed a low-cost, high-efficiency post-harvest bulk handling machinery system by collecting onions on a farm using ton-bags, drying with forced air circulation, and sorting/packaging. The post-harvest bulk handling machinery system consisted of 6 devices, and this study designed an automatic feed hopper with a feeding rate control device, an inclined belt conveyor with a two-step chute, and an automatic pallet unloading device for feeding onions into the sorting/packing line. This study also analyzed the performance and control of the total system. The device had 1-ton handling capacity, but the operational condition was set to increase the capacity. The three-step filling method of pallet by the velocity control of the inclined belt conveyor was applied in the post-harvest bulk handling machinery system for the prevention of physical damage. If one worker was set to operate the total system, the time required to complete one palletized load was approximately 5 minutes and 5 seconds. The calculated daily handling capacity was approximately 94 tons, when the daily actual working time was 8 hours. When the developed system was applied to the managerial size of 2,000 ton, the processing cost per ton of the system was decreased by 19.5%, compared with the existing 20 kg-net package-based handling. The developed post-harvest bulk handling machinery system would be a good substitute for the rapid decline and aging of rural labor.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.37-51
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• 1992

Quantizing and extracting visual features of mushroom(Lentinus edodes L.) are crucial to the sorting and grading automation, the growth state measurement, and the dried performance indexing. A computer image processing system was utilized for the extraction and measurement of visual features of front and back sides of the mushroom. The image processing system is composed of the IBM PC compatible 386DK, ITEX PCVISION Plus frame grabber, B/W CCD camera, VGA color graphic monitor, and image output RGB monitor. In this paper, an automatic thresholding algorithm was developed to yield the segmented binary image representing skin states of the front and back sides. An eight directional Freeman's chain coding was modified to solve the edge disconnectivity by gradually expanding the mask size of 3$\times$3 to 9$\times$9. A real scaled geometric quantity of the object was directly extracted from the 8-directional chain element. The external shape of the mushroom was analyzed and converted to the quantitative feature patterns. Efficient algorithms for the extraction of the selected feature patterns and the recognition of the front and back side were developed. The developed algorithms were coded in a menu driven way using MS_C language Ver.6.0, PC VISION PLUS library fuctions, and VGA graphic functions.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.153-158
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• 1999

As a basic research for the development of the automatic grading and sorting system for dried oak mushrooms, the device to acquire both cap and gill side images of mushroom has been developed and neural network based side recognition and quality grading has been proposed via inputting both side images. 20 quality grades have been selected considering the requirement of grade classifications imposed by the mushroom company. Developed DC motor driven‘V’type reversing device for the image acquisition of both side images of mushroom showed more than 95% success. Most error was caused by very small size mushrooms with a radius of around 1cm. However, it required a further research to reduce the reversing time. Grading and side recognition were performed via inputting normalized size factors and average gray levels of $8{\times}8$ grids converted from the raw images of both surfaces to the multi-layer back propagation(BP) network. Accuracy of the grading showed about 88.5% and the total grading time including reversing operation was around 2 seconds.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.167-174
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• 2004

Density is a physical property which contains information relating to the internal quality of fruits and vegetables, and can be used as an index for nondestructive quality evaluation. Density sorting has been employed by farmers for some agricultural products since ancient times. In this study, an automatic density measuring system based on the platform scale or water displacement method was developed for density sorting of watermelon. It consisted of water tan, load cell, net tray, electric motor, limit switch, control system and its program. The resolution of density was 0.001 g/㎤. In order to calibrate and evaluate the accuracy, the density was measured using a balloon kept in cold water. It showed 1.002 g/㎤ which almost correspond to real density of water. Test results with 6 watermelons and 3 replications showed that the standard deviations of the dens were 0.001∼0.004 g/㎤. The relationship between density and internal quality of watermelon was investigated using the system. The densities of hollow watermelons were less than 0.950 g/㎤, it was apparent that the density of the watermelon was related to the degree of hollowness. But the soluble solid contents and internal defects could not be estimated from the density.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.233-238
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• 1995

A computer vision system was built to generate images of a single, stationary egg. This system includes a CGD camera, a frame grabber, and incandescent back lighting system. Image processing algorithms were developed to inspect egg shell and to sort eggs. Those values of both gray level and area of dark spots in the egg image were used as criteria to detect holes in egg and those values of both area and roundness of dark spots in the egg image were used to detect cracks in egg. For a sample of 300 eggs, this system was able to correctly analyze an egg for the presence of a defect 97.5% of the time. The weights of eggs were found to be linear to both the projected area and the perimeter of eggs viewed from above. Those two values were used as criteria to sort eggs. The coefficients of determination(r$^2$) for the regression equations between weights and those two values were 0.967 and 0.972 in the two sets of experiment. Accuracies in grading were found to be 95.6% and 96.7% as compared with results from sizing by electronic weight scale.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.303-308
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• 2010

Surface color is the most important quality factor for the grade evaluation of cherry tomato. Color is one of the representative indicators for the maturity which is closely related to the internal quality of cherry tomato, such as firmness, sugar content, and acidity. This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between surface color and internal quality of cherry tomatoes harvested from both hydroponic and soil culture at different ripening stages. To calculate the color values of cherry tomatoes an automatic color imaging system was constructed. A specially designed image processing algorithm for the color measurement was developed. The color values of L*, a*, b* were calculated from the initial color values of RGB and then compared with the internal quality. Statistical analyses indicated that the internal quality was more highly correlated with the surface color than size of cherry tomatoes. Color image features were also investigated to detect external damage of cherry tomatoes. The value of (R value - R mean value)/R mean value was the most effective image feature for the detection of damaged areas on the surface of cherry tomatoes. The results of this study demonstrated the feasibility of color sorting process as an alternative of the conventional drum type size sorting system for cherry tomato industry.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.48-53
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• 2000

1. 난중(卵重) 및 진동량 계측 시스템은 로드셀 1개를 이용한 기존의 방법을 로드셀 배치 I, 계란의 이송방향과 평행하게 같은 방향으로 부착한 방법을 로드셀 배치 II 로 하였고 로드셀 2개를 이용하여 서로 마주보도록 부착한 방법을 로드셀 배치 III, 2 개의 로드셀이 계란의 이송방향과 평행하게 같은 방향으로 부착한 방법을 로드셀 배치 IV로 구성하여 난중(卵重) 및 진동량을 측정, 분석 하였다. 2. 4가지의 로드셀 배치에 따른 난중(卵重)측정결과 로드셀 배치 I, 로드셀 배치 II, 로드셀 배치 III, 로드셀 배치 IV에 의한 난중(卵重)평균 오차가 각각 1.2128g, 0.5953g, 0.7786g, 0.2793g으로 로드셀 2개를 계란 이송방향과 평행하게 부착한 방법이 난중(卵重) 평균 오차가 가장 낮게 나와 정밀도가 매우 높음을 알 수 있었다. 3 계란 자동 선별기를 이용하여 대란 등급의 계란 선별시 X, Y, Z축 방향에서 평균 진동량이 각각 $5.1937{\times}10^{-3}G$, $9.3604{\times}10^{-3}G$, $16.8657{\times}10^{-3}G$로서 Z축방향의 진동값이 X, Y방향보다 상대적으로 크다는 것을 알 수 있었다.