• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.833-838
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• 2003

This paper presents novel methods of recognizing license plates of passing vehicles outdo(n. In particular, the proposed method is much robust for inclined plates caused by the changes of camera placement. To acquire fine images of quickly passing vehicles under a wide range of illumination conditions, we developed a sensing system having superb characteristics. We expanded the dynamic range and eliminated the blurring of images of fast moving vehicles by synthesizing a pair of synchronized images with different intensities. furthermore, to extend the flexibility of the positioning of the TV camera, we propose a recognition algorithm that can be applied to inclined plates. The performance of the integrated system was investigated on real images of vehicles captured under various illumination conditions. The recognition rates of over 99% (conventional plates) and over 97% (highly inclined plates) shows that the developed system is effective for license plate recognition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.467-471
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 명암도 변화 및 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘과 개선된 오류 역전파 알고리즘을 이용한 차량 번호판 인식 방법을 제안한다. 비영업용 차량 영상을 대상으로 차량 번호판 영역을 추출하기 위해 명암도 변화 특성을 이용하여 차량 번호판 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 차량 번호판 영역에 반복 이진화 방법을 적용하여 차량 번호판의 영역을 이진화하고, 이진화된 차량 번호판 영역에 대해서 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 개별 코드를 추출한다. 추출된 개별 코드 인식은 일반화된 델타 학습 방법에 Delta-bar-Delta 알고리즘을 적용하여 학습률을 동적으로 조정하는 개선된 오류 역전파 알고리즘을 적용한다. 제안된 방법의 인식 성능을 평가하기 위하여 실제 비영업용 차량 번호판에 적용한 결과, 기존의 차량 번호판 인식 방법보다 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.2
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• pp.195-200
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 실제 입력 차량 영상으로부터 명암도 변화 정보와 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 차량 번호판을 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 일반적으로 차량 영상에서는 번호판 영역에서 문자와 배경이 뚜렷하게 구별되고, 일정한 명암도 변화를 가지면서 번호판 이외의 다른 영역 보다 빌집도가 높은 특성이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 성질을 이용하여 먼저 명암도 변화값을 사용하여 번호판을 추출하도록 하였으며 영상 입력 과정에서 외부 환경에 따라 차량 영상이 어둡거나 밝게 입력될 경우에도 동일한 추출 성능을 얻기 위하여 밝기 보정 과정을 수행하였다. 또한 추출된 번호판 영역으로부터 입력 문자의 크기, 이동 및 회전에 무관한 특성 추출을 위해 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 차량 번호를 인식하도록 하였다. 제안한 알고리즘을 적용한 결과 번호판 추출이 가능하였으며 기존의 방법에 비해 계산 속도가 향상되어 실시간 처리의 가능성을 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.113-123
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• 2012

Recently, various attempts have been made to apply Intelligent Transportation System under various environments and conditions. Consequently, an accurate license plate recognition regardless of vehicle location and viewing angle is required. In this paper, we propose a novel license plate recognition system which exploits a) the format of license plates to remove false candidates of license plates and to extract characters in license plates and b) the characteristics of Hangul for accurate character recognition. In order to eliminate false candidates of license plates, the proposed method first aligns the candidates of license plates horizontally, and compares the position and the shape of objects in each candidate with the prior information of license plates provided by Korean Ministry of Construction & Transportation. The prior information such as aspect ratio, background color, projection image is also used to extract characters in license plates accurately applying an improved local binarization considering luminance variation of license plates. In case of recognizing Hangul in license plates, they are initially grouped according to their shape similarity. Then a super-class method, a hierarchical analysis based on key feature points is applied to recognize Hangul accurately. The proposed method was verified with high recognition rate regardless of background image, which eventually proves that the proposed LPR system has high performance regardless of the vehicle location or viewing angle.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

Automatic vehicle license plate recognition technology is widely used in gate control and parking control of vehicles, and police enforcement of illegal vehicles. However inherent geometric information of the license plate can be transformed in the vehicle images due to the slant and the sunlight or lighting environment. In this paper, a distortion invariant vehicle license plate extraction and recognition algorithm is proposed. First, a binary image reserving clean character strokes can be achieved by using a DoG filter. A plate area can be extracted by using the location of consecutive digit numbers that reserves distortion invariant characteristic. License plate is recognized by using neural networks after geometric distortion correction and image enhancement. The simulation results of the proposed algorithm show that the accuracy is 98.4% and the average speed is 0.05 seconds in the recognition of 6,200 vehicle images that are obtained by using commercial LPR system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.73-81
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• 2007

This paper presents how to recognize the new-type vehicle license plate using multi-link recognizer after extract the features from characters. In order to assist this task, this paper proposed FE-MCBP to recognize each character that got through image preprocess, extract range of vehicle license plate and extract process of each character. FE-MCBP is the recognizer based on the features of the character, The recognizer is employed to identify the new-type vehicle licence plates which have both the hangul and the arabic numeral characters. And its recognition rate is improved 9.7 percent than the back propagation recognizer before. Also it makes use of extract of linear component and region coordinate generation technology to normalize a image of the tilted vehicle license plate. The recognition system of the new-type vehicle license plate make possible recognize a image of the tilted vehicle license plate when using this system. Also, this system can recognize the tilted or imperfect vehicle licence plates.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.259-261
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• 2003

차량 번호판 인식 시스템의 번호판 인식과정은 영상획득 및 번호판 영역 추출, 개별문자 추출, 문자 인식의 3가지 핵심부분으로 구성된다. 이 중에서도 번호판 추출의 정확성은 시스템 전체의 결과에 영향을 줄 수 있는 부분이며 다양한 주변 환경에도 정확한 추출과 빠른 수행 시간을 요구한다. 본 논문에서는 검출 시간의 단축을 위하여 명암값의 차이와 사전정보를 이용하여 먼저 인식대상의 주목표인 등록번호의 위치를 추출 및 검증하고 등록번호에 대한 지역명의 상대적인 위치 정보를 이용하여 문자의 대략적인 위치를 선정, 각 요소들의 외곽 근접 선들의 투영(protection)과 이동을 통하여 번호판의 모든 문자 요소의 위치를 추출한다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.87-101
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposes the car plate recognition and describe the parking control system using the proposed car plate recognition algorithm. The car plate recognition system using color information and fuzzy c-means algorithm consists of the extraction part of a car plate from a car image and the recognition part of characters in the extracted car plate. This paper eliminates green noise from car image using the mode smoothing and extract plate region using green and white information of RGB color. The codes of extracted plate region is extracted by histogram based approach method and is recognized by fuzzy c-means algorithm. For experimental, we tested 80 car images. We shows that the proposed extraction method is better than that from the color information of RGB and HSI, respectively. So, we can know that the proposed car plate recognition method using fuzzy c-means algorithm was very efficient. We develop the parking control system using the proposed car plate recognition method, which showed performance improvement by the experimental results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.747-753
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• 2018

In the license-plate recognition systems for automobile black Image, the license-plate image frequently has a shadow due to outdoor environments which are frequently changing. Such a shadow makes unpredictable errors in the segmentation process of individual characters and numbers of the license plate image, and reduces the overall recognition rate. In this paper, to improve the recognition rate in these circumstance, a license-plate image binarization algorithm is proposed removing the shadow effectively. The propose algorithm splits the license-plate image into the regions with the shadow and without. To find out the boundary of two regions, the algorithm estimates the curve for shadow boundary using the least-squares method. The simulation is performed for the license-plate image having its shadow, and the results show much higher recognition rate than the previous algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.151-154
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• 2000

차량 번호판 영상을 안정적으로 추출하여 인식하는 방법에는 여러 가지 땅법들이 제시되어 왔다. 기존의 연구들은 번호판 영역 추출에는 높은 성공률을 보이고 있으나 상대적으로 문자 인식의 성공률이 그에 미치지 못해서 전체적인 인식 성공률에 저하를 가져오는 경우가 대부분 이었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 칼라 정보를 이용하여 입력 영상의 밝기 보정과 번호판 영역을 추출하고 N4M (Normalized 4 - Mash)을 적용하여 문자인식 처리 시간을 단축시키고 인식글을 향상시킬 수 있었다.