• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.261-268
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• 2007

In this paper, We propose a new technique extract efficiently a car number plate based on edge projection. In order to obtain the region of car number plate, we use a motive that the luminance differences between the number plate background and characters. And, we introduce a projection technique to obtain character parts based on edge image. In vertical direction. we propose a shape matching method. Specially the new number plate standard has more characters than the old one in horizontal direction and, it is efficiently used to extract the number plate. Therefore, the proposed technique is useful to the new number plate standard. In simulation results. We have illustrated that our algorithm can recognize different number plates with a success ration of 90%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.792-795
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a method of vehicle license plate recognition on PDA for illegal parking car regulation. we classified three kinds of vehicle license plates being used down to date since the introduction of each vehicle license Plate using features of each one. And we recognized vehicle license plates segmentation the AreaName, the AreaCode, the TypeCharacter and the Numbers. A 88.7% recognition accuracy was obtained through the experiment of the proposed vehicle license plate recognition system using the obtained images of PDA.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.9-16
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• 2012

The research of vehicle license plate recognition has been widely studied for the smart city project. The license plate recognition can be hard due to the geometric distortion and the image quality degradation in case of capturing the driving car image at CCTV without trigger signal on the road. In this paper, the high performance vehicle license plate recognition system using edge-based segment image is introduced which is robust in the geometric distortion and the image quality degradation according to non-trigger signal. The experimental results of the proposed real time license plate recognition algorithm which is implemented at the CCTV on the road show that the plate detection rate was 97.5% and the overall character recognition rate of the detected plates was 99.3% in a day average 1,535 vehicles for a week operation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.2277-2282
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed a new recognition method can be used in application systems using morphological features, difference operators and ART2 algorithm. At first, edges are extracted from an acquired car image by a camera using difference operators and the image of extracted edges is binarized by a block binarization method. In order to extract license plate area, noise areas are eliminated by applying morphological features of new and existing types of license plate to the 8-directional edge tracking algorithm in the binarized image. After the extraction of license plate area, mean binarization and mini-max binarization methods are applied to the extracted license plate area in order to eliminated noises by morphological features of individual elements in the license plate area, and then each character is extracted and combined by Labeling algorithm. The extracted and combined characters(letter and number symbols) are recognized after the learning by ART2 algorithm. In order to evaluate the extraction and recognition performances of the proposed method, 200 vehicle license plate images (100 for green type and 100 for white type) are used for experiment, and the experimental results show the proposed method is effective.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.727-733
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• 2004

In the car license plate recognition system, it is very important to extract the part of the license plate from the car image. In this paper, I use ACL algorithm to extract the license plate image from car image. The ACL algorithm is used to color and luminance information, either. Therefore in this paper, suggested algorithm is called ACL algorithm The ACL algorithm uses color, luminance information and the rate of license plate information Each of these information are used to exact area of license plate. The result of experiment to extract the car license plate with ACL algorithm is 97% extraction rate. The result of experiment with ACL algorithm for the character region, character recognition is 92% extraction rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.23-24
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• 2012

자동화된 번호판 검출 시스템은 지능형 교통체계 시스템 (intelligent transportation systems)의 핵심적인 모듈이다. 그러나 실제 CCTV 환경에서는 저해상도 및 잡음 등의 다양한 영상 획득 환경의 제한으로 인해 효과적인 번호판 검출이 요구되고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 저해상도 환경에 강인한 새로운 번호판 검출에 대하여 sparse representation 을 적용하여 그 우수성을 보였다. 실제 CCTV 영상으로 수행한 실험을 통하여 제안하는 검출 방법이 저해상도 환경에서의 번호판 검출에 효과적임을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.754-757
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• 2016

기존 번호판 인식은 직접 특징 추출 알고리즘을 개발하여 완전 연결 신경망으로 특징을 분류하는 방법이 보편적이다. 본 연구는 전처리 과정에서 번호판 후보군 검출 및 세그먼테이션을 수행하고 특징 추출 없이 미리 학습된 심층 컨볼루션 신경망을 통해 문자를 분류하는 방법을 제안한다. 직접 수집한 2,900장의 번호판 데이터베이스를 이용하여 훈련 집합 및 검증 집합을 구성하였다. 훈련 집합과 검증 집합에 대해 실험한 결과 번호판 후보군 검출률은 97%를 얻을 수 있었고, 이에 대한 인식률은 95%를 얻었다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.3155-3163
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• 2000

In the recognitionsystem of car license plate, it is very important to extract the character from the license plate and recognize the extrated character. In this paper, I use the adaptive algorithm to recognize the charactor of licensse plate image. The adaptive algorithm is compounded of thinning algorithm template matching,algarthm, vector algorithm and so on. The adaptive algorithm was used to recognize the character from license image. In the result of expenment, character recognition is about up to 90% with the adaptive algorithm for the character region.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.796-798
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• 2004

기존의 번호판 인식 시스템에서는 대부분 카메라가 고정 상태에서 차량의 전면부를 찍어 영상을 획득하고, 이로부터 번호판을 추출하고 인식한다 그러나 본 연구에서는 기존 연구들과 달리 이동 중인 자동차에 카메라를 설치하여 움직이는 자동차의 영상을 획득하여 번호판을 추출하고 인식한다. 인식하고자 하는 영상이 잡음이나 왜곡 없이 깨끗하다면 인식 과정은 간단하게 수행될 것이다. 그러나, 실제로 얻어진 영상은 간단한 방법으로 인식하기에는 어려올 정도로 왜곡이나 변형이 심한 경우가 많다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 SVM 전단에 모듈라 신경망을 결합하여 인식하는 방법을 사용함으로써 잡음과 같은 변형에 덜 민감하도록 하고자 하였다. 실험결과, 제안하는 분류기를 이용한 방법이 번호판 인식에 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.