• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.24-31
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• 2012

This paper introduce a technique for Word segmentation for the handwritten recognition of Urdu script. Word segmentation or word tokenization is a primary technique for understanding the sentences written in Urdu language. Several techniques are available for word segmentation in other languages but not much work has been done for word segmentation of Urdu Optical Character Recognition (OCR) System. A method is proposed for word segmentation in this paper. It finds the boundaries of words in a sequence of ligatures using probabilistic formulas, by utilizing the knowledge of collocation of ligatures and words in the corpus. The word identification rate using this technique is 97.10% with 66.63% unknown words identification rate.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1091-1101
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• 1988

In this paper, a method to segment each character and extract figure from Korean documents is proposed. At first, each character string is extracted by means of iterative horizontal propagation, shrink algorithm and run-length algorithm. Individual character region is extracted by iterative horizontal and vertical manipulation. Next, characters of right pitch are searched. Each character is segmented by the position information. Overlapped character is segmented on the ground of the width of already extracted character. The rest are extracted as special characters of half pitch. Using 9 data input in the form of 840 X 600 from Korean monthly magazine, experiment was simulated. Extraction rate of character is 100%, and that of individual character is 98%. Judging from these results, efficiency on extracting character region and segmenting individual character is proved.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.29-35
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• 2010

While diversification of the use of video in the prevalence of cheap video equipment, augmented reality can print additional real-world images and video image. Although many recent advent augmented reality techniques, currently attempting to correct the character recognition is performed. In this paper characters marked with a visual marker recognition, and the color to match the marker color of the characters finds. And, it was shown on the screen by the character recognition. In this paper, by applying the phoneme pattern segmentation algorithm by the horizontal projection, we propose to segment the phoneme to match the six types of Hangul representation. Throughout the experiment sample of phoneme segmentation using augmented reality showed proceeding result at each step, and the experimental results was found to be that detection rate was above 90%.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.92-98
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• 2020

This paper proposes a vehicle license plate recognition system using light weight deep learning models without high-end server. The proposed license plate recognition system consists of 3 steps: [license plate detection]-[character area segmentation]-[character recognition]. SSD-Mobilenet was used for license plate detection, ResNet with localization was used for character area segmentation, ResNet was used for character recognition. Experiemnts using Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG Q9, accuracy showed 85.3% accuracy and around 1.1 second running time.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.2509-2528
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• 2019

There are various styles of license plates for different countries and use cases that require style-specific methods. In this paper, we propose and illustrate a multi-style license plate recognition system. The proposed system performs a series of processes for license plate candidates detection, structure classification, character segmentation and character recognition, respectively. Specifically, we introduce a license plate structure classification process to identify its style that precedes character segmentation and recognition processes. We use a K-Nearest Neighbors algorithm with pre-training steps to recognize numbers and characters on multi-style license plates. To show feasibility of our multi-style license plate recognition system, we evaluate our system for multi-style license plates covering single line, double line, different backgrounds and character colors on Korean and the U.S. license plates. For the evaluation of Korean license plate recognition, we used a 50 minutes long input video that contains 138 vehicles of 6 different license plate styles, where each frame of the video is processed through a series of license plate recognition processes. From two experiments results, we show that various LP styles can be recognized under 50 ms processing time and with over 99% accuracy, and can be extended through additional learning and training steps.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.907-910
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• 2011

This paper proposes a character segmentation algorithm of steel plate images composed of adaptive binarization by the SCW (Sliding Concentric Windows) technique, the object labelling by CCA (Connected Component Analysis), and 2D projection method. The SCW technique carries out the grayscale-to-binary image conversion in consideration of local characteristics of images. The character decision algorithm followed by the labelling technique by CCA (Connected Component Analysis) determines the character area effectively reducing the noise effect. The 2D projection with horizontal and vertical directions produces a tight bounding box for a character based on the cross points. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm segments the characters in steel plate images effectively. The proposed algorithm can be applied to the devices with limited resources due to its excellent performance and low complexity.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2515-2517
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• 2002

The process of character recognition goes through 5 steps; image acquisition, character region extraction, preprocessing, character region segmentation, character recognition. Therefore the final recognition rate of character recognition is directly affected by the performance of each step. This paper is a leading research for object recognition using image processing algorithm which is one of the field of study in computer vision. And this paper will suggest an algorithm to extract the portion of number chain, which is part of the research embodying a system to perceive the data of manufacture and the name of the producer on the wrapping of groceries. In addition, this can extract the number chain comparatively accurate without using many complex algorithm by diving and extracting the moving number region at the same time.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.4
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• pp.481-490
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• 2002

Off-line handwritten character recognition is in difficulty of incomplete preprocessing because it has not dynamic information has various handwriting, extreme overlap of the consonant and vowel and many error image of stroke. Consequently off-line handwritten character recognition needs to study about preprocessing of various methods such as binarization and thinning. This paper considers running time of watershed algorithm and the quality of resulting image as preprocessing for off-line handwritten Korean character recognition. So it proposes application of effective watershed algorithm for segmentation of character region and background region in gray level character image and segmentation function for binarization by extracted watershed image. Besides it proposes thinning methods that effectively extracts skeleton through conditional test mask considering routing time and quality of skeleton, estimates efficiency of existing methods and this paper's methods as running time and quality. Average execution time on the previous method was 2.16 second and on this paper method was 1.72 second. We prove that this paper's method removed noise effectively with overlap stroke as compared with the previous method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06c
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• pp.439-444
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• 2008

본 논문은 한영 혼용 문서에서의 문자 분할을 위한 효율적인 언어 인식기를 고안하였다. 한영 혼용 문서를 스캔한 후, OCR(광학 문자 판독, Optical Character Recognition)을 할 때, 문자 분할의 중요성은 상당히 크다. 인식 없이 문자를 분할하는 external segmentation 방법에서는, 인식할 언어가 한글 혹은 영어인가에 따라 문자 분할 방법이 달라진다. 그러므로, 한영 혼용 이미지를 인식하기 위해서 문자 분할을 하기 전에 언어를 미리 결정해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 문자 분할 방법을 효율적으로 하기 위한 언어 인식기를 제안하고 그 방법을 적용하였다. 그 결과 한영 혼용된 책 이미지에서 94.09%의 문자 분할 성공률을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.179-181
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• 2004

인쇄체 문자 인식에서 접합 문자는 주요한 에러 발생의 원인이다. 본 논문에서는 접합 문자를 분할하기 위해 두 개의 분할 비용을 정의한다. 첫째, 절단 비용은 한 패턴을 분할하는 데 얼마나 많은 블랙픽셀이 분리되어야 하는가이다. 둘째, 접선 비용은 분할선이 얼마나 많은 블랙 픽셀과 화이트 픽셀사이를 지나가는가이다. 폰트 분류기는 접합 문자의 후보 문자를 제공한다. 후보 문자의 문자 폭은 접합 문자를 분리하기 위한 기준선을 제공하며, 그 기준선 부근의 픽셀들이 분할 가능 영역을 나타낸다. 절단 비용의 최소값과 접선 비용의 최대값이 되는 지점이 최종적으로 접합 문자를 분할하는 위치이다. 이렇게 정의된 절단 비용과 접선 비용을 가지고 접합 문자를 분할하면 보다 정확한 문자 분할을 하여 문자 인식에서 에러 발생을 줄일 수 있다.