• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.32-43
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• 2004

In this paper, a system which can effectively recognize the plate image extracted from camera set on a moving car is proposed. To extract car licence plate from moving vehicles, multiple candidates are maintained based on the strong vertical edges which are found in the region of car licence plate. A candidate region is selected among them based on the ratio of background and characters. We also make a comparative study of recognition performance between support vector machines and modular neural networks. The experimental results lead us to the conclusion that the former is superior to the latter. For a better recognition rate, a simple method combining the support vector machine with modular neural network where the output of the latter is used as the input of the former is suggested and evaluated. As we expected, the hybrid one shows the best result among those three methods we have mentioned.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.218-222
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• 2003

A technology that recognize the car license plate have accomplished a lot of developments for latest several years. Key technology for correct recognition is correct abstraction of plate area. Existent studies have used horizontal/vertical edge, some geometrical characteristics of license plate, and the color information. But, in case of extracting a plate using above characteristics, correct extraction of a license plate inclined by sight which see license plate is difficult. Therefore, this paper is propose new method that correctly extract license plate using the color information and linear regression method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.453-462
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• 2021

A lot of license plate data is required for car number recognition. License plate data needs to be balanced from past license plates to the latest license plates. However, it is difficult to obtain data from the actual past license plate to the latest ones. In order to solve this problem, a license plate recognition study through deep learning is being conducted by creating a synthetic license plates. Since the synthetic data have differences from real data, and various data augmentation techniques are used to solve these problems. Existing data augmentation simply used methods such as brightness, rotation, affine transformation, blur, and noise. In this paper, we apply a style transformation method that transforms synthetic data into real-world data styles with data augmentation methods. In addition, real license plate data are noisy when it is captured from a distance and under the dark environment. If we simply recognize characters with input data, chances of misrecognition are high. To improve character recognition, in this paper, we applied the DeblurGANv2 method as a quality improvement method for character recognition, increasing the accuracy of license plate recognition. The method of deep learning for license plate detection and license plate number recognition used YOLO-V5. To determine the performance of the synthetic license plate data, we construct a test set by collecting our own secured license plates. License plate detection without style conversion recorded 0.614 mAP. As a result of applying the style transformation, we confirm that the license plate detection performance was improved by recording 0.679mAP. In addition, the successul detection rate without image enhancement was 0.872, and the detection rate was 0.915 after image enhancement, confirming that the performance improved.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.361-364
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• 2002

번호판 인식 시스템은 일반적으로 한 차선에 한 카메라를 사용한다. 만약 2개의 차로를 동시에 촬영하도록 카메라를 설치한다면 시스템 구축 비용이 많이 감소할 것이다. 본 논문은 이러한 시스템의 구축에 필요한 기본적인 방법으로써 이미지에서 번호판이 2개 이상 존재할 경우에도 그 위치를 모두 검출할 수 있는 방법에 대하여 제안한다. 번호판 후보 영역 추출은 모폴로지 연산을 통해 검출하고 각 후보 영역은 이진화후 제안한 검증 방법을 통해 후보 영역을 제거하고 번호판인 후보 영역에 대하여 정확한 번호판 영역을 검출한다. 제안한 검출 방법은 일반 번호판과 영업용 번호판 모두 검출할수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.1449-1461
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a vehicle recognition system based on the classification of vehicle identification mark and recognition of vehicle license plate. In the proposed algorithm, From the input vehicle image, we first simulate preprocessing procedures such as noise reduction, thinning etc., and detect vehicle identification mark and license plate region using the frequency distribution of intensity variation. And then, we classify extracted vehicle candidate region into identification mark, character and number of vehicle by using structural feature informations of vehicle. Lastly, we recognize vehicle informations with recognition of identification mark, character and number of vehicle using hybrid and vertical/horizontal pattern vector method. In the proposed algorithm, we used three properties of vehicle informations such as Independency property, discriminance property and frequency distribution of intensity variation property. In the vehicle images, identification mark is generally independent of the types of vehicle and vehicle identification mark. And also, the license plate region between character and background as well as horizontal/vertical intensity variations are more noticeable than other regions. To show the efficiency of the propofed algorithm, we tested it on 350 vehicle images and found that the propofed method shows good Performance regardless of irregular environment conditions as well as noise, size, and location of vehicles.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.40-48
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• 2018

This paper proposes a license-plate recognition algorithm for automobile black-box image which is obtained from the camera moving with the automobile. The algorithm intends to increase the overall recognition-rate of the license-plate by increasing the Korean character recognition-rate using multi-stage neural network for automobile black-box image where there are many movements of the camera and variations of light intensity. The proposed algorithm separately recognizes the vowel and consonant of Korean characters of automobile license-plate. First, the first-stage neural network recognizes the vowels, and the recognized vowels are classified as vertical-vowels('ㅏ','ㅓ') and horizontal-vowels('ㅗ','ㅜ'). Then the consonant is classified by the second-stage neural networks for each vowel group. The simulation for automobile license-plate recognition is performed for the image obtained by a real black-box system, and the simulation results show the proposed algorithm provides the higher recognition-rate than the existing algorithms using a neural network.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.473-475
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• 2023

자동차 번호판 인식은 영상 내 검출한 차량의 번호판의 문자열을 인식하여 차량을 식별하고 추적하는 기술로 주변 환경에 의한 잡음, 왜곡과 차량의 움직임으로 발생한 흐림, 영상 입력 장치와의 물리적 거리 등에 강인해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 차량 움직임으로 발생한 흐림이 있는 저해상도 영상에 대한 번호판 인식 성능의 향상을 위해 디블러링 모델과 초해상화 모델을 이용한 영상 복원 방법을 제안한다. 실험을 통해 디블러링 모델과 초해상화 모델을 결합하여 흐림이 있는 저해상도 국내 번호판 영상에서의 인식 성능을 개선하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.12-19
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• 2008

Detection of a number plate consists of three stages; division of a number plate, extraction of each character from the plate, recognition of the characters. Among of these three states, division stage of a number plate is the most important part and also the most time-consuming state. This paper suggests an effective region extraction method of a number plate for various images obtained from unmanned inspection systems of illegal parking violation, especially when we have to consider the diverse surrounding environments of roads. Our approaching method detects each region by investigating the characteristics in changes of brightness and intensity between the background part and character part, and the characteristics on character parts such as the sizes, heights, widths, and distance in between two characters. The method also divides a number plate into different types of the plate. This research can solve the number plate region detection failure problems caused by plate edge damages not only for Korean domestic number plates but also for new European style number plates. The method also reduces the time consumption by processing the detection in real-time, therefore, it can be used as a practical solution.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.1947-1954
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• 2009

Camera-captured car plate images contain much variation and noise and the character images in a plate are typically very small. We attempted to improve the plate identification efficiency suitable for this undesirable condition. We experimented various image preprocessing and feature extracting methods and the very effective features that can compensate one feature's limitation is determined through extensive experiments. Finally two very effective features that can complement the limitations of each other feature(classifier) are determined and the efficiency is proved by recognition experiments. This approach is very necessary when handling plate character images which are typically small, various, and noisy. Individual classification result, confidence factor, region name relation and feedback verification are comprehensively considered to enhance the overall recognition efficiency. The efficiency of our method is verified by a recognition experiment using real car plate images taken from traffic roads.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2022

With the recent development of intelligent transportation systems, car license plate recognition systems are being used in various fields. Such systems need to guarantee real-time performance to recognize the license plate of a driving car. Also, they should keep a high recognition rate even in problematic situations such as small license plates in low-resolution and unclear image due to distortion. In this paper, we propose a real-time car license plate recognition system that improved processing speed using object detection algorithm based on anchor-free method and text recognition algorithm based on Convolutional Neural Network(CNN). In addition, we used Spatial Transformer Network to increase the recognition rate on the low resolution or distorted images. We confirm that the proposed system is faster than previously existing car license plate recognition systems and maintains a high recognition rate in a variety of environment and quality images because the proposed system's recognition rate is 93.769% and the processing speed per image is about 0.006 seconds.