• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.245-248
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• 2000

자동차 번호판 인식 시스템에서 가장 중요한 요소는 자동차 이미지 영역에서 번호판 영역을 추출, 추출된 영역에서 문자 추출, 추출된 문자의 인식 등의 과정이다. 본 논문은 자동차 번호판 인식 과정에서 적응 알고리즘을 이용하여 보다 정확한 인식이 될 수 있도록 한다. 본 논문에서 사용하는 적응 알고리즘은 기존의 방식과는 달리 특정한 알고리즘을 이용한 인식을 하지 않고 다양한 알고리즘을 이용한 인식 결과의 조합으로 최적의 해법을 찾는다. 번호판 인식을 위한 적응 알고리즘은 원형 정합 알고리즘, 벡터 알고리즘, 세선화 알고리즘 등이다. 적응 알고리즘을 이용한 실험 결과 자동차 이미지에 대해서 90% 이상 인식이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.773-776
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 에지 검출기에 의해 다양한 명암이 존재하는 차량 번호판 영역의 사각형 에지를 검출시 사용되는 소벨 및 Prewitt, Roberts, 가우시안의 라플라시안, 그리고 Canny 검출기를 사용하여 처리 속도와 에지 검출의 정확성을 실험하여 각 연산자의 성능을 평가하였다. 기존의 Sobel 에지 검출기는 적응적 임계값을 구하지 않으면 다양한 조명의 영향에 강인하지 못하다. 또한 Canny 에지 검출기는 조명의 영향에 강인하기는 하나, 계산량이 Sobel 보다는 많아 처리 속도가 느리다. 색상에 의해 번호판 후보 영역을 추출한 후 에지 검출기 번호판 내의 명암이 둘 이상으로 차량 번호판 영역에 대해서, 다양한 에지 검출기를 적용하여 속도와 에지 검출 성능을 비교 평가하고자 한다.

• 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.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.3683-3693
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• 1999

Most recognition methods of car licence plate have difficulties concerning plate recognition rates and system stability in that restricted car images are used and good image capture environment is required. To overcome these difficulties, I proposed a new recognition method of car licence plates, in which both intensity variation and color information are used. For a captured car image, multiple candidate plate-bands are extracted based on the number of intensity variation. To have an equal performance on abnormally dark and bright Images. plate lightness is calculated and adjusted based on the brightness of plate background. Candidate plate regions are extracted using contour following on plate color pixels in oath plate band. A candidate region is decided as a real plate region after extracting character regions and then recognizing them. I recognize characters using template matching since total number of possible characters is small and they art machine printed. To show the efficiency of the proposed method, I tested it on 200 car images and found that the method shows good performance.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.779-786
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• 2009

Lotto is one of the most popular lottery games in the world. In korea the lotto considers numbers 1, 2,..., 45 from which 6 numbers are drawn randomly, without replacement. The profits from the lotto supports social welfare. However, there has been a suspicion that the choice of the winning numbers might not be random. In this study, we applied the randomness test developed by Coronel-Brizio et al. (2008) to the historical korean lotto data to see if the drawing process is random. The result of our study shows that the process was random during two periods under the management of different business companies and of price changes, respectively.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.186-195
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• 2016

This paper proposes a vehicle license plate detection method in real road environments using 8 bit-MCT features and a landmark-based Adaboost method. The proposed method allows identification of the potential license plate region, and generates a saliency map that presents the license plate's location probability based on the Adaboost classification score. The candidate regions whose scores are higher than the given threshold are chosen from the saliency map. Each candidate region is adjusted by the local image variance and verified by the SVM and the histograms of the 8bit-MCT features. The proposed method achieves a detection accuracy of 85% from various road images in Korea and Europe.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.493-496
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a new approach to detect candidate area of vehicle license plate using compounded color and vertical edge information it's own. Also, we propose a verification course, to compressed image generated by Fast DCT, using SVM to increase accuracy of extracted vechicle license plate area. Proposed method is consider that vehicle's position, become a object of it's license plate recognition, has various angle, scale and include enough environment informations. As a experimental results, proposed method shows a superior performance compared with the case that not includes verification course using SVM.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.1495-1504
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• 2008

New license plates have been used since 2007. This paper proposes a new license plate extraction method using a gray labeling and a fuzzy reasoning method. First, the proposed method extracts the candidate plates by the gray labeling which is the enhanced version of a non-recursive flood-filling algorithm. By newly designed fuzzy inference system. fitness of each candidate plates are calculated. Finally, the area of the license plate in a image is extracted as a region of the candidate label which has the highest fitness. In the experiments, various license plate images took from indoor/outdoor parking lot, street, etc. by digital camera or cellular phone were used and the proposed extraction method was showed remarkable results of a 94 percent success.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.15-23
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• 2016

This paper proposes an effective algorithm of Korean license plate recognition. By applying Haar-like feature and Canny edge detection on a captured vehicle image, it is possible to find a connected rectangular, which is a strong candidate for license plate. The color information of license plate separates plates into white and green. Then, OTSU binary image processing and foreground neighbor pixel propagation algorithm CLNF will be applied to each license plates to reduce noise except numbers and letters. Finally, through labeling, numbers and letters will be extracted from the license plate. Letter and number regions, separated from the plate, pass through mesh method and thinning process for extracting feature vectors by X-Y projection method. The extracted feature vectors are classified using neural networks trained by backpropagation algorithm to execute final recognition process. The experiment results show that the proposed license plate recognition algorithm works effectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2001

This paper presents a learning-based approach for the construction of license Plate recognition system. The system consist of three modules. They are respectively, car detection module, license plate recognition module and recognition module. Car detection module detects a car in the given image sequence obtained from the camera with simple color-based approach. Segmentation module extracts the license plate in detect car image using neural network as filters for analyzing the color and texture properties of license plate. Recognition module then reads characters in detected license plate with support vector machine (SVM)-based characters recognizer. The system has been tested from parking lot and tollgate, etc. and have show the following performances on average: Car detect rate 100%, segmentation rate 97.5%, and character recognition rate about 97.2%. Overall system performances is 94.7% and processing time is one sec. Then our propose system does well using real world.