한국ITS학회 논문지 (The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems)

  • 제18권6호
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  • Pages.241-250
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  • 2019
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  • 1738-0774(pISSN)
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  • 2384-1729(eISSN)
한국ITS학회 (The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems)
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위치기반 유사도 검증을 이용한 도로표지 안내지명 자동인식 개선방안 연구

A Study on the Improvement of Automatic Text Recognition of Road Signs Using Location-based Similarity Verification

  • 정규수 (한국건설기술연구원 미래융합연구본부)
  • Chong, Kyusoo (Dept. of Future Technology and Convergence Research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
  • 투고 : 2019.11.18
  • 심사 : 2019.12.02
  • 발행 : 2019.12.31
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도로표지는 도로 이용자를 위한 시설물로서 관리 및 유지보수의 편의성 증진을 위해 국토교통부에서는 관리시스템을 구축하여 운영 중에 있다. 향후 자율주행 시대에 도로표지의 역할은 감소하겠지만 그 필요성은 지속되고 있다. 이에 도로표지에 표기된 안내지명의 정확한 기계적 판독을 위해 도로표지 자동인식 장비를 개발하여 영상 기반의 문자 인식 기술을 적용하고 있지만 불규칙적인 규격과 수작업 제조, 조도, 빛반사, 강우 등 외부환경에 의해 오인식되는 경우가 다수 발생하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 영상 분석 등으로 극복할 수 없는 오인식 결과를 개선하기 위해 위치기반의 안내지명 후보를 도출하여 기준으로 하고, 오인식된 지명의 음소 분리를 통한 레벤슈타인 문자 유사도 검증 방법을 이용해 도로표지 안내지명 자동인식율을 개선하고자 하였다.

Road signs are guide facilities for road users, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has established and operated a system to enhance the convenience of managing these road signs. The role of road signs will decrease in the future autonomous driving, but they will continue to be needed. For the accurate mechanical recognition of texts on road signs, automatic road sign recognition equipment has been developed and it has applied image-based text recognition technology. Yet there are many cases of misrecognition due to irregular specifications and external environmental factors such as manual manufacturing, illumination, light reflection, and rainfall. The purpose of this study is to derive location-based destination names for finding misrecognition errors that cannot be overcome by image analysis, and to improve the automatic recognition of road signs destination names by using Levenshtein similarity verification method based on phoneme separation.

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