Written by: Kim V. Dator Photo Courtesy of Engr. Madecheen S. Pangaliman, MSc
UST Department of Electronics Engineering (ECE) student, Jacob Ebilane, presented their research paper entitled, “Evaluation of Handwritten Answers using Optical Character Recognition” at the 2022 Annual PAASE Meeting and Symposium (42nd APAMS) last October 13, 2022, via Zoom.
Among the 15 research expertise clusters (REC), their study classified into REC 10: Computer Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
In an interview, Ebilane said that the study was about a program that reads and checks handwritten answer keys to physics-based questions and then grades the entire paper of a user.
He highlighted that in engineering computations, the usage of the International System of Units and Prefix (SI) is usually involved. As such, precision is measured, which led the researchers to come up with this idea.
“Ang thought process namin do’n is something that would be relevant or usable with the current pandemic and even afterwards…Kung gagawa kami ng research, dapat hindi lang s’ya one-time purpose lang. Kailangan in the future, madali siyang ma-develop or pwede pa rin siyang gamitin ng ibang tao,” he mentioned.
Following this, he acknowledged the assistance of his teammates throughout the preparations and their thesis advisor's encouragement where his courage to present the paper at the conference came from.
Moreover, he stated that their presentation could also serve as an inspiration for the Thomasian community to do the same as him and immerse themselves in research development.
The other student researchers were Ericko Louise P. Glodove and Michael Jeffrey D. Carlos; and were supervised by Engr. Ma. Madecheen S. Pangaliman, M. SC.
The annual conference with the theme “Engaging Next Generation Science and Engineering,” is an active platform for Filipino scientists and engineers to share their experiences and studies in various science and engineering fields in hopes to develop the research community.
The conference is organized by the Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering (PAASE) and was sponsored by the University.
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