• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.700-706
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• 2005

The immigration control system authorizes the immigration of travelers by means of passport inspections such as the judgment of forged passports, the search for a wanted criminal or a person disqualified for immigration, etc. The judgment of forged passports plays an important role in the immigration control system. Therefore, as the pre-phase for the judgment of forged passports, this paper proposed a novel method for the recognition of passport using ART2-based RBF network. The proposed method extracts the area of code and individual codes by applying the Sobel masking, the smearing and the contour tracking algorithm in turn to the passport image. This paper proposed the RBF network that applies the ART2 algorithm to the middle layer, and applied the enhanced RBF network to the recognition of individual codes. The results of the experiments for performance evaluation on the real passport images showed that the proposed method has the better performance compared with other approaches.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.369-375
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• 2011

Design is important in the IT, digital appliance, and auto industries. Aesthetic and art images are being applied for better quality of the products. Most image patterns are complex and much lead-time is required to implement them to the product design process. A precise reverse engineering method generating 2.5D engraving models from 2D artistic images is proposed through the image processing, NURBS interpolation and 2.5D reconstruction methods. To generate 2.5D TechArt models from the art images, boundary points of the images are extracted by using the adaptive median filter and the novel MBF (modified boundary follower) algorithm. Accurate NURBS interpolation of the points generates TechArt CAD models. Performance of the developed system has been confirmed through the quick turnaround 2.5D engraving simulation linked with the commercial CAD/CAM system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.983-989
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• 2006

Current emigration and immigration control inspects passports by the naked eye, registers them by manual input, and compares them with items of database. In this paper, we propose the method to recognize information codes of passports. The proposed passport recognition method extracts character-rows of information codes by applying sobel operator, horizontal smearing, and contour tracking algorithm. The extracted letter-row regions is binarized. After a CDM mask is applied to them in order to recover the individual codes, the individual codes are extracted by applying vertical smearing. The recognizing of individual codes is performed by the RBF network whose hidden layer is applied by ART 2 algorithm and whose learning between the hidden layer and the output layer is applied by a generalized delta learning method. After a photo region is extracted from the reference of the starting point of the extracted character-rows of information codes, that region is verified by the information of luminance, edge, and hue. The verified photo region is certified by the classified features by the ART 2 algorithm. The comparing experiment with real passport images confirmed the good performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.2486-2491
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• 2013

There are invisible defects by naked eyes in ceramic material images such as internal stomata, cracks and foreign substances. In this paper we propose a method to detect and extract such defects from ceramic pipe weld zone by applying ART2 learning. In pre-processing, we apply Ends-in Search Stretching to enhance the intensity and then perform fuzzy binarization with triangle type membership function followed by enhanced ART2 that interacts with random input patterns to extract such invisible defects. The experiment verifies that this proposed method is sufficiently effective.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1269-1274
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• 2014

In computer vision research, binarization procedure is one of the most frequently used tools to discriminate target objects from background in grey level binary image. Fuzzy binarization is a reliable technique in environment with high uncertainty such as medical image analysis by setting the threshold as the average of minimum and maximum brightness with triangle type fuzzy membership function. However, this technique is also known as contrast sensitive method thus its discrimination power is not so great when the image has low contrast difference between objects and backgrounds and suffer from information loss as a result. Thus, in this paper, we propose a fuzzy binarization using ART2 algorithm to handle such low contrast image analysis. Proposed ART2 algorithm is applied to determine the medium point of membership function in the fuzzy binarization paradigm. The proposed methods shows low information loss rate in our experiment.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.88-95
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• 2003

The automatic recognition of transport containers using image processing is very hard because of the irregular size and position of identifiers, diverse colors of background and identifiers, and the impaired shapes of identifiers caused by container damages and the bent surface of container, etc. We proposed and evaluated the novel recognition algorithm of container identifiers that overcomes effectively the hardness and recognizes identifiers from container images captured in the various environments. The proposed algorithm, first, extracts the area including only all identifiers from container images by using CANNY masking and bi-directional histogram method. The extracted identifier area is binarized by the fuzzy binarization method newly proposed in this paper and by applying contour tracking method to the binarized area, container identifiers which are targets of recognition are extracted. We proposed and applied the ART2-based RBF network for recognition of container identifiers. The results of experiment for performance evaluation on the real container images showed that the proposed algorithm has more improved performance in the extraction and recognition of container identifiers than the previous algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.421-423
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 ART2 알고리즘을 이용하여 잠금 상태에서 스마트폰의 어플리케이션을 쉽고 빠르게 구동하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 자신이 원하는 그림과 설치되어 있는 어플리케이션과의 대응 테이블을 만들기 위하여 학습 어플리케이션을 실행한다. 학습 어플리케이션의 동작 순서는 어플리케이션 실행 후 화면 하단에서 빠른 실행을 하고자 하는 어플리케이션을 선택하고 좌측상단에 위치하고 있는 입력 부분에 그림을 그린 후, 학습 버튼을 클릭한다. 그려진 그림의 배경은 0으로 그림은 1로 변환하고 ART2의 입력으로 사용할 수 있도록 일정한 크기로 정규화한다. 정규화 된 데이터를 팽창 연산을 통하여 학습에 용이하도록 최외각 픽셀을 확장하여 ART2의 입력 데이터로 적용한다. 학습이 끝난 후, 잠금 상태에서 액정 윗부분에 학습된 것과 같은 모양의 그림을 그리면 해당 어플리케이션이 실행된다. 제안된 방법은 기존의 방식인 잠금 해제 후, 어플리케이션을 탐색하고, 해당 어플리케이션을 실행하는 3 단계로 된 방식을 1 단계로 줄이기 때문에 원하는 어플리케이션을 실행하는데 시간이 적게 소요되는 장점이 있다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.100-104
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• 2008

Generally, it is difficult to find constant patterns on identifiers in a container image, since the identifiers are not normalized in color, size, and position, etc. and their shapes are damaged by external environmental factors. This paper distinguishes identifier areas from background noises and removes noises by using an ART2-based quantization method and general morphological information on the identifiers such as color, size, ratio of height to width, and a distance from other identifiers. Individual identifier is extracted by applying the 8-directional contour tracking method to each identifier area. This paper proposes a refined ART2-based RBF network and applies it to the recognition of identifiers. Through experiments with 300 container images, the proposed algorithm showed more improved accuracy of recognizing container identifiers than the others proposed previously, in spite of using shorter training time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.377-382
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 애견 질병에 대한 전문적인 지식이 부족한 일반인들을 대상으로 자신의 애견 건강상태를 파악 할 수 있는 진단 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 진단 시스템은 105가지 질병과 각 질병의 증상을 데이터베이스에 구축하여 입력된 증상을 통해서 애견의 질병을 도출한다. 본 논문에서는 신경망의 자율 학습 방법인 ART2 알고리즘을 적용하여 질병을 클러스터링 하고 그 결과 값인 클러스터의 출력값과 연결강도를 데이터베이스에 저장한다. 각 질병의 증상과 관련된 질의 결과를 입력 벡터로 제시하여 학습된 질병 정보와 비교하여 애견의 건강 상태를 진단한다. 애견의 건강 상태를 진단하는데 있어서 질병과 증상의 정확한 정보는 매우 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 질병과 증상의 정보를 데이터베이스로 구축하고 질병과 증상 정보를 효율적으로 관리할 수 있도록 하였다. 제안된 진단 시스템을 구현하여 수의학 전문의가 분석한 결과, 본 논문에서 제안한 시스템이 애견 질병의 보조 진단 시스템으로서의 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.87-89
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 Ends-In Search Stretching 기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조하고, 명암 대비가 강조된 영상에서 삼각형 타입의 소속 함수를 이용한 퍼지 이진화 기법을 적용한 후, 그 다음 임의의 패턴 입력에 대해서도 효과적으로 특징을 분류하는 개선된 ART2 알고리즘을 이용하여 결함 영역을 검출한다. 제안된 방법을 세라믹 소재 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 방법보다 효율적으로 결함이 검출되는 것을 확인하였다.