• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.7-12
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• 2014

A vehicle license plate includes the most important information for recognition and classification of the vehicle. In this paper, we propose a vehicle license plate recognition system using image binarization and template matching. In the proposed system, an image of the vehicle license plate is converted into a gray scale image and the gray image undergoes the binarization process. Finally, the numbers on the plate are extracted from the binary image using the template matching algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07b
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• pp.1002-1005
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• 1995

This paper presents an enhanced preprocessing and recognition algorithm for automatic vehicle license plate recognition system. The algorithm first applies horizontal gradient filter followed by thresholding and mathematical morphology operation for preprocessing. The final stage of the preprocessing is the application of connected component analysis in order to estimate the license plate region. For the recognition of the serial numbers of the plates, we developed a very effective algorithm. We call this zerocrossing count algorithm. This paper presents a detail of this algorithm and compare the performance with a template matching algorithm which utilizes correlation coefficient.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.262-266
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• 2010

Recognizing a license plate of a vehicle has widely been issued. In this thesis, firstly, mean shift algorithm is used to filter and segment a color vehicle image in order to get candidate regions. These candidate regions are then analyzed and classified in order to decide whether a candidate region contains a license plate. We then present an approach to recognize a vehicle's license plate using the Fuzzy ARTMAP neural network, a relatively new architecture of the neural network family. We show that the proposed system is well to recognize the license plate and shows some compute simulations.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.19-28
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• 2020

Vehicle license plate recognition system is not generalized in Malaysia due to the loose character layout rule and the varying number of characters as well as the mixed capital English characters and italic English words. Because the italic English word is hard to segmentation, a separate method is required to recognize in Malaysian license plate. In this paper, we propose a mixed character level and word level English license plate recognition algorithm using deep learning neural networks. The difference of Gaussian method is used to segment character and word by generating a black and white image with emphasized character strokes and separated touching characters. The proposed deep learning neural networks are implemented on the LPR system at the gate of a building in Kuala-Lumpur for the collection of database and the evaluation of algorithm performance. The evaluation results show that the proposed Malaysian English LPR can be used in commercial market with 98.01% accuracy.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.568-574
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• 2022

In this paper, direction normalization and CNN deep learning are used to develop a more reliable license plate recognition system. The existing license plate recognition system consists of three main modules: license plate detection module, character segmentation module, and character recognition module. The proposed system minimizes recognition error by adding a direction normalization module when a detected license plate is inclined. Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method in comparison to the previous system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.281-283
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• 2022

화물 선박의 전복사고가 매해 발생하고 있음에도 화물을 측정하지 않고 서류에 의존하는 방식으로 화물을 선적하고 있습니다. 우리는 사고의 원인을 사전에 차단할 수 있는 자동 계측 시스템을 연구하였습니다. 본 논문의 시스템은 LiDAR 센서를 이용하여 비규격 화물이 멈추지 않고 자동 계측되어 인력과 시간의 소요를 줄이고 산출된 체적과 3D 모델을 제공합니다. 게다가 화물 차량에 실린 화물을 내리지 않고도 화물의 체적을 산출할 수 있어 항만의 효율성을 향상할 수 있을 것으로 기대합니다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.127-136
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• 2023

Many research results on the traffic enforcement of illegal driving of twowheeled motor vehicles using license plate recognition are introduced. Deep learning convolutional neural networks can be used for character and word recognition of license plates because of better generalization capability compared to traditional Backpropagation neural networks. In the plates of twowheeled motor vehicles, the interdependent government and city words are included. If we implement the mutually independent word recognizers using error correction rules for two word recognition results, efficient license plate recognition results can be derived. The CPU based convolutional neural network without library under real time processing has an advantage of low cost real application compared to GPU based convolutional neural network with library. In this paper twowheeled motor vehicle license plate recognition algorithm is introduced using CPU based deep-learning convolutional neural network. The experimental results show that the proposed plate recognizer has 96.2% success rate for outdoor twowheeled motor vehicle images in real time.

• Journal of Korean Port Research
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.303-312
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• 1999

The automated gate operating system is developed in this paper that controls the information of container at gate in the ACT. This system can be divided into three parts and consists of container identifier recognition car plate recognition container deformation perception. We linked each system and organized efficient gate operating system. To recognize container identifier the preprocess using LSPRD(Line Scan Proper Region Detection)is performed and the identifier is recognized by using neural network MBP When car plate is recognized only car image is extracted by using color information of car and hough transform. In the port of container deformation perception firstly background is removed by using moving window. Secondly edge is detected from the image removed characters on the surface of container deformation perception firstly background is removed by using moving window. Secondly edge is detected from the image removed characters on the surface of container. Thirdly edge is fitted into line segment so that container deformation is perceived. As a results of the experiment with this algorithm superior rate of identifier recognition is shown and the car plate recognition system and container deformation perception that are applied in real-time are developed.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.85-91
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• 2016

It was difficult to verify the car number or face of inspector in the closed circuit television because of low CCD pixels and low brightness of lens. So CCTV lens should have higher pixels and brightness. In this paper, the design of zoom lens for mega pixel Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) was introduced. We applied aspheric lens in order to reduce the spherical aberration and distortional aberration. And we applied focal length of 6-60mm, F number of 1.2, 3 million pixel resolution and magnifying power of 10 times. Also we applied infrared correction in order to use the CCTV camera in day and night effectively. These norms are the most powerful in CCTV zoom lens of focal length of 6-60mm. And if we apply this lens to the box style CCTV camera, we can verify the car number or face within 50m. Auto controlling system will be continued.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.127-128
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• 2017

해마다 대포차로 인한 사건 사고가 많이 일어나고 있으며, 피해율이 점점 더 증가하는 시점에서 검거율은 현저히 낮다. 이러한 문제를 줄이기 위해 대포차 검거 애플리케이션을 개발하고자 한다. 본 연구는 GPS와 사진으로부터 텍스트를 추출하는 기능을 활용하여 대포차를 검거하는 데 도움을 주는 애플리케이션이다. 사용자가 정차 및 주차되어 있는 차의 번호판을 사진 촬영 기능을 활용하여 자동으로 사진을 분석을 통해 차량의 번호를 인식하고, GPS를 활용하여 촬영한 장소의 위치 값을 추출하고 대포차 여부를 확인한다. 촬영한 차량이 대포차로 식별되면 관리 서버에 등록되고 대응 절차에 의해 대포차 검거 절차를 진행한다. 대포차의 실시간 검거를 위해 대포차 대응서버에서는 관리자에게 실시간으로 정보를 전송하고 알림 기능을 통해 검거 절차가 진행된다. 또한 실시간 대응에 어려움이 있는 상황에서는 자주 신고가 접수되는 출몰지역 정보를 관리자가 유추할 수 있도록 통계정보를 제공하여 추후 잠복에 의한 검거 정보를 제공한다.