• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.49-55
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• 2021

In this paper, an enhanced 2-stage vehicle license plate detection scheme using object segmentation is proposed to detect accurately the rotated license plates due to the inclined photographing angles in real-road situations. With the previous 3-stage vehicle license plate detection pipeline model, the detection accuracy is likely decreased as the license plates are declined. To resolve this problem, we propose an enhanced 2-stage model by replacing the frontal two processing stages which are for detecting vehicle area and vehicle license plate respectively in only rectangular shapes in the previous 3-stage model with one step to detect vehicle license plate in arbitrarily shapes using object segmentation. According to the comparison results in terms of the detection accuracy of the proposed 2-stage scheme and the previous 3-stage pipeline model against the rotated license plates, the accuracy of the proposed 2-stage scheme is improved by up to about 20% even though the detection process is simplified.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.93-101
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• 2021

In this paper, a vehicle license plate detection scheme is proposed that uses the spatial attention areas to detect accurately the license plates in various real-road situations. First, the previous WPOD-NET was analyzed, and its detection accuracy is evaluated as lower due to the unnecessary noises in the wide detection candidate areas. To resolve this problem, a vehicle license plate detection model is proposed that uses the candidate area of the license plate as a spatial attention areas. And we compared its performance to that of the WPOD-NET, together with the case of using the optimal spatial attention areas using the ground truth data. The experimental results show that the proposed model has about 20% higher detection accuracy than the original WPOD-NET since the proposed scheme uses tight detection candidate areas.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.2
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• pp.81-88
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• 2007

We implement automobile license plates recognition system. These days automobile license plate recognition systems are widely used for tracing stolen cars. managing parking facilities, ticketing speeding cars, and so on. Recognition systems largely consist of three parts plates extraction, segments extraction, and segment recognition. For plates extraction, we measure the degree of inclination of plate. We use filters that extract only the horizontal components of the front of an automobile to measure the degree of inclination. For segment extraction, we trace the change of the number of blocks that consist solely of foreground pixels or background pixels as the horizontal scanning line moves along upward. For recognition of each individual letter or digit, we devise a variant of template matching method, called comparative template matching. Through experiments, we show that comparative template matching is less prone misled by noises and exhibits higher performance compared to the traditional method of template matching or histogram based recognition.

• 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.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.209-215
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• 2015

In the past, there have been many theory and algorithms for vehicle tracking. But the time complexity of many feature point matching methods for vehicle tracking are exponential. Also, object segmentation and detection algorithms presented for vehicle tracking are exhaustive and time consuming. Therefore, we present the fast and efficient two stages method that can efficiently track the many moving vehicles on the road. The first detects the vehicle plate regions and extracts the feature points of vehicle plates. The second associates the feature points between frames using dynamic programming.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.01a
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• pp.315-316
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• 2022

최근 전 세계적인 탄소 중립 정책으로 인해 전기차 보급 속도는 예상보다 훨씬 빠르게 증가하고 있다. 하지만 늘어나는 수요에 비해 전기차 충전기 수는 턱없이 부족하다. 그뿐만 아니라 일반 차들의 전기차 충전소 불법주차로 인해 전기차가 충전하지 못하는 불편함이 발생하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 에지 컴퓨터(edge computer)와 딥러닝 기반 객체 감지 시스템 YOLO(You only look once)를 이용한 전기차 충전소 불법주차 방지 시스템을 개발한다. 먼저, 이 시스템은 카메라를 통해 실시간으로 영상을 받아 YOLO를 이용하여 차량 번호판 인식이 되면 전기차 번호판의 특정 마크를 인식하여 전기차인지 일반 차인지를 판별하여 판별된 값에 따라 주차 차단기가 작동되는 시스템이다. 전기차이면 차단기가 내려가서 충전소를 이용할 수 있게 하고 일반차일 경우 주차 차단기가 내려가지 않고 막아 불법주차를 차단한다. 이와 같은 기술을 활용하여 전기차 충전소 불법주차 방지에 기여하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.701-702
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 Jetson-Nano와 데스크탑에서 OpenCV와 YOLOv3 실시간 객체 인식 알고리즘을 이용하여 웹캠을 통해 주차장 등의 출입 차량 인식 통계 시스템을 개발하였다. 최근 에지컴퓨팅에 관심이 증가하고 있는 시점에서 Nvidia사에서 개발하여 보급하고 있는 Jetson-Nano에 YOLOv3 tiny와 OpenCV를 이용하여 차량인식을 수행하고, 구글에서 개발한 오픈 소스 Tesseract-OCR을 이용해 차량번호인식하여 입출차 혹은 주차시 차량정보를 확인할 수 있다. 딥러닝 학습 알고리즘에서 전기차 번호판의 특징점을 인식하여 전기차를 판별하여 일반차량이 전기차 주차구역에 불법주차하는 것을 모니터링할 수도 있다. 출입한 차량 데이터 베이스에서 입출차 시각, 차량번호, 전기차여부등이 확인 가능하다.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.37-43
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• 2019

딥러닝을 비롯한 인공기능과 영상처리 분야의 접목은 기존 물리보안의 기술적 한계를 뛰어넘어 새로운 기회의 장을 마련하고 있다. 하지만 딥러닝 기반 영상분석 기술도 지능형 영상감시가 필요한 실제 현장에서는 다양한 환경의 제약사항으로 인해 성능이 저하될 가능성이 높다. 본 논문에서는 실제 CCTV 환경의 영상 데이터를 확보하여 신경망을 이용한 지속적인 학습을 통해 영상분석의 성능을 개선하는 클라우드 기반 지능형 영상보안 플랫폼을 소개한다. 클라우드 기반 지능형 영상보안 플랫폼은 지자체 통합관제센터에서 수집한 CCTV 영상을 학습 데이터로 활용하여, 현장에서 신뢰받을 수 있는 사람 검출, 사람/차량 재식별, 열악 차량번호판 탐지 등의 지능형 영상분석 서비스를 제공할 수 있다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.391-396
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• 2019

Researches for image processing have been actively progress due to the development of various hardware. For example, in order to prevent various types of crime by a vehicle, there is a method of detecting the location of a criminal vehicle using the existing CCTV in real time. However, certain types of systems and high-performance system requirements make it difficult to apply to existing equipment. In this paper proposes a search algorithm that construct a file database of Korean standard license plate information so that specific vehicles can be quickly searched using existing equipment. In order to evaluate the performance of the file database and the search algorithm proposed in this paper, we set up the search targets at various locations and the results showed that the search algorithm could always check the information by searching the vehicle within a certain time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.141-143
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• 2022

This paper presented a new technology to identify traffic violations of motorbike riders by detecting the traffic signal using You Only Look Once (YOLO) object detection. The hardware module that is mounted on the front of the motorbike consists of Raspberry Pi with a camera to run the YOLO object detection, a GPS module to acquire the motorcycle's coordinate, and a LoRa communication module to send the data to a cloud DB. The main goal of the software is to determine whether a motorbike has violated a traffic signal. This paper proposes a function to recognize the red traffic signal colour with its movement inside the camera angle and determine that the traffic signal violation happens if the traffic signal is moving to the right direction (the rider turns left) or moving to the top direction (the riders goes straight). Furthermore, if a motorbike rider is violated the signal, the rider's personal information (name, mobile phone number, etc), the snapshot of the violation situation, rider's location, and date/time will be sent to a cloud DB. The violation information will be delivered to the driver's smartphone as a push notification and the local police station to be used for issuing violation tickets, which is expected to prevent motorbike riders from violating traffic signals.