• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
• /
• v.12 no.8
• /
• pp.1495-1504
• /
• 2008

New license plates have been used since 2007. This paper proposes a new license plate extraction method using a gray labeling and a fuzzy reasoning method. First, the proposed method extracts the candidate plates by the gray labeling which is the enhanced version of a non-recursive flood-filling algorithm. By newly designed fuzzy inference system. fitness of each candidate plates are calculated. Finally, the area of the license plate in a image is extracted as a region of the candidate label which has the highest fitness. In the experiments, various license plate images took from indoor/outdoor parking lot, street, etc. by digital camera or cellular phone were used and the proposed extraction method was showed remarkable results of a 94 percent success.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
• /
• 2012.05b
• /
• pp.716-718
• /
• 2012

본 논문에서는 모바일 폰으로 획득한 영상의 텍스트영역 검출을 제안한다. 최근 모바일 폰을 이용한 영상기반 응용 분야의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으며, 특히 영상에서 텍스트를 인식하기 위한 전단계로 텍스트 영역 검출은 중요하다. 본 논문은 텍스트 영역 검출을 위해 먼저, 컬러 영상을 입력 받아 그레이 이미지로 변환하여 영상내에 내포된 잡음을 제거하고 열림/닫힘 연산의 특징을 이용해 각 연결요소를 검출하고 검출된 요소들을 레이블링 한다. 레이블링 된 영상은 텍스트가 갖는 특정 조건에 의해 텍스트 영역인지 텍스트 영역이 아닌지를 검출하고 검출된 텍스트 영역은 검증을 통해 최종 텍스트 영역을 검출한다. 제안한 방법은 기존의 택스트 영역 겁출보다 정확도가 향상할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
• /
• v.14 no.9
• /
• pp.21-28
• /
• 2009

Color polarity classification is a process to determine whether the color of text is bright or dark and it is prerequisite task for text extraction. In this paper we propose a color polarity method to extract text region. Based on the observation for the text and background regions, the proposed method uses the ratios of sizes and standard deviations of bright and dark regions. At first, we employ Otsu's method for binarization for gray scale input region. The two largest segments among the bright and the dark regions are selected and the ratio of their sizes is defined as the first measure for color polarity classification. Again, we select the segments that have the smallest standard deviation of the distance from the center among two groups of regions and evaluate the ratio of their standard deviation as the second measure. We use these two ratio features to determine the text color polarity. The proposed method robustly classify color polarity of the text. which has shown by experimental result for the various font and size.