• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1328-1337
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• 2022

Recently, research on various font designs has been actively conducted to deliver effective emotional information in a digital environment. In this study, we propose a Hangul font outline vector modification algorithm that effectively conveys sensitivity according to weather information and can be transformed immediately. The algorithm performs a series of transformations: sets outlines according to design pattern templates, calculates the glyph's position to reflect physical rules, splits outline segments into smaller sizes and deforms the outlines. Through this, we could create several vector font designs such as humidity, cloud, wind, and snow. The usability evaluation was close to good, so it can be used in diverse ways if we improve readability and effective design expression.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.28B no.9
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• pp.712-718
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• 1991

In this paper, we propose a graphic system for high speed generation of bitmap font data from the outline font data such as PostScript, etc. In desk-top publishing system. A VLSI chip called KAFOG was designed for the high-speed calculation of a cubic Bezier curve, which was implemented in 1.5\ulcorner CMOS gate array using 17,000 gates. A cubic Bezier curve is approximated by a set of line segments in KAFOG at the throughput of 250K curves per second with the clock frequency of 40 MHz. A prototype graphic system was developed using two MC6800 microprocessors and the KAFOG chip. Two microprocessors cooperate in a master and slave mode, and handshaking is used for communication between two processors. KAFOG chip, being controlled by the slave processor, operates as a coprocessor for the calculation of the outline font. The throughput of the prototype graphic system is 40 64$\times$64 outline fonts per sencond.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.88-92
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• 2018

'UFO2MF' and 'Korean MetaFont Generator' have been developed to convert UFO codes to the corresponding Metafont codes by using outline editing methods. However, 'UFO2MF' cannot express smooth curves because it use only reference points without using control points. And 'Korean MetaFont Generator' can easily design the curve of characters, and supports Hangul characters, but this system does not support Roman characters. In this paper, we propose a UFO2xMF system, which can convert both Korean and Roman characters from outline text information into Metafont codes. UFO2xMF can apply attribute values which can change the shape of letters during the conversion of Metafont code. It is also a highly compatible system that can convert the characters of various languages not only Korean characters but also Roman and other characters into Metafont codes by applying letters with baseline and centerline of gravity.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.29A no.2
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• pp.100-106
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• 1992

In this pape, we designed and implemented a hardware accelerator for the generation of bit map font from Hangul outline font description for LBP (Laser Beam Printer) and screen applications Whole system was implemented as a double size PC/AT application board which consists of processing bolck and display block. The processing block has a master processor (MC68000)and two slave processors which are MC56001 and KAFOG chip responsible for the short vector generation. In the display block, TMS34061 was used for monitor display and GP425 was used for LBP print out. The resolution of the monitor is 640$\times$480 and that of LBP is 2385$\times$3390. The current system called KHGB90-B generates about 100 characters per second where each character consists of 32$\times$32 bits

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.311-325
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• 2009

This paper presents a method for analyzing Hangul glyphs with their outline fonts and obtaining intermediate fonts with two different fonts. The glyphs are represented and analyzed hierarchically such as characters, components(letters) and strokes. With the analysis results, we obtain several intermediate glyphs by morphing two different glyphs of same character. For a natural glyph contour morphing, we employ the curve morphing algorithm by weighted mean of strings. In addition, we provide four operations for transformation of glyphs with different topology. As a result, it is illustrated that the proposed Hangul glyphs morphing scheme is useful for new font generation from any exist fonts or handwritings.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.11-21
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• 2011

This paper proposes a method for decomposing a Hangul glyph of outline fonts into its initial, medial and final components using statistical-structural information. In a font family, the positions of components are statistically consistent and the stroke relationships of a Hangul character reflect its structure. First, we create the component histograms that accumulate the shapes and positions of the same components. Second, we make pixel clusters from character image based on pixel direction probabilities and extract the candidate strokes using position, direction, size of clusters and adjacencies between clusters. Finally, we find the best structural match between candidate strokes and predefined character model by relaxation labeling. The proposed method in this paper can be used for a study on formative characteristics of Hangul font, and for a font classification/retrieval system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.547-549
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• 2000

Truetype 글꼴은 외곽선정보를 벡터 데이터 형태로 가지고 있기 때문에 사용자의 수정이 매우 용이한 글꼴이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 truetype 글꼴의 특성을 이용하여 글꼴의 외곽선 정보를 알아낸 후 외곽선을 다양한 패턴으로 분할하는 방법을 제시하려 한다. 직선에서는 Brensenham 알고리즘을 이용한 패턴 분할을 행하였고, 곡선에서는 Casteljar 알고리즘을 바탕으로 선형보간법을 이용한 재귀호출 방법을 사용하여 패턴 분할을 행하였다. 이러한 임의 패턴 분할을 이용해서 다양한 길이를 가진 형태의 패턴을 생성함으로써, 글꼴의 외곽선에 다양한 효과를 줄 수 있다.

• 한국어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.44-48
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• 2016

오늘날 폰트를 디자인하는데 주로 사용되는 외곽선 방식은 글자의 크기를 손쉽게 변경할 수 있으나 글자의 굵기나 스타일을 변화시키려면 다시 수작업을 통해서 디자인을 변경해야 한다. 이를 보완하기 위한 프로그래머블 폰트인 메타폰트는 매개변수를 사용하여 글자의 변화가 매우 용이하다. 하지만 메타폰트는 프로그래밍 언어이므로 메타폰트에 대한 선행학습이 필요하여 폰트 디자이너에게 사용되지 않았다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 폰트 디자이너에게 익숙한 외곽선 방식에 편집기를 제공하면서 글자의 스타일에 대한 변화를 메타폰트에서 처리하여 다양한 폰트를 파생할 수 있는 한글 외곽선 폰트 시스템을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 본 시스템에서는 외곽선 방식의 폰트를 제작할 수 있도록 하는 웹 외곽선 폰트 편집기를 구현하였으며 외곽선 방식의 폰트를 메타폰트로 변환하는 UFO2mf를 구현하였다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 폰트 시스템은 기존 외곽선 방식의 스타일 변화에 대한 수고를 덜어줄 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.44-48
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• 2016

오늘날 폰트를 디자인하는데 주로 사용되는 외곽선 방식은 글자의 크기를 손쉽게 변경할 수 있으나 글자의 굵기나 스타일을 변화시키려면 다시 수작업을 통해서 디자인을 변경해야 한다. 이를 보완하기 위한 프로그래머블 폰트인 메타폰트는 매개변수를 사용하여 글자의 변화가 매우 용이하다. 하지만 메타폰트는 프로그래밍 언어이므로 메타폰트에 대한 선행학습이 필요하여 폰트 디자이너에게 사용되지 않았다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 폰트 디자이너에게 익숙한 외곽선 방식에 편집기를 제공하면서 글자의 스타일에 대한 변화를 메타폰트에서 처리하여 다양한 폰트를 파생할 수 있는 한글 외곽선 폰트 시스템을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 본 시스템에서는 외곽선 방식의 폰트를 제작할 수 있도록 하는 웹 외곽선 폰트 편집기를 구현하였으며 외곽선 방식의 폰트를 메타폰트로 변환하는 UFO2mf를 구현하였다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 폰트 시스템은 기존 외곽선 방식의 스타일 변화에 대한 수고를 덜어줄 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.95-101
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• 2019

Recently, there have been many issues related to text recognition using Tesseract. One of these issues is that the text recognition accuracy is significantly lower for smaller fonts. Tesseract extracts text by creating an outline with direction in the image. By searching the Tesseract database, template matching with characters with similar feature points is used to select the character with the lowest error. Because of the poor text extraction, the recognition accuracy is lowerd. In this paper, we compared text recognition accuracy after applying various super-resolution methods to smaller text images and experimented with how the recognition accuracy varies for various image size. In order to recognize small Korean text images, we have used super-resolution algorithms based on deep learning models such as SRCNN, ESRCNN, DSRCNN, and DCSCN. The dataset for training and testing consisted of Korean-based scanned images. The images was resized from 0.5 times to 0.8 times with 12pt font size. The experiment was performed on x0.5 resized images, and the experimental result showed that DCSCN super-resolution is the most efficient method to reduce precision error rate by 7.8%, and reduce the recall error rate by 8.4%. The experimental results have demonstrated that the accuracy of text recognition for smaller Korean fonts can be improved by adding super-resolution methods to the OCR preprocessing module.