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

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
• /
• 2005.05a
• /
• pp.437-442
• /
• 2005

본 연구에서는 칼라정보와 주성분분석법(principal component analysis : PCA)를 이용한 차량 번호판 인식시스템을 구성하였다. 먼저 입력된 차량 영상에서 번호판의 형태적 특징과 녹색 칼라 정보를 이용하여 번호판 영역을 추출하였으며, 추출된 번호판내의 문자 및 숫자의 위치적 특징을 이용하여 번호판의 종류(구형, 신형, 최신형)를 구분하였다. 이렇게 추출되고 구분된 번호판은 문자의 상대적 위치정보와 수평 및 수직 투영 정보를 함께 이용하여 각각의 문자영역을 분리 추출하였다. 추출된 문자영역은 주성분분석법을 이용하여 고유벡터를 추출한 후 문자 인식에 사용하였다. 본 논문의 실험과정에서는 다양한 시간대 환경에서 촬영된 주행 중인 자동차 320대의 자가용 차량영상에 대하여 실험하였으며 높은 번호판 추출률과 번호판종류 구분률 그리고 문자 인식률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
• /
• v.19 no.1
• /
• pp.173-179
• /
• 2018

With the recent increase in the number of cars and the lack of parking spaces, the number of parking businesses has increased. the parking management has become an essential element in parking business, and the parking management's company becomes an increasingly popular opportunity. However, as competition grows as more and more and companies increase in number, efforts are being made to create new services, gain technological excellence, or reduce costs through current system improvements. In this paper, we developed a parking management system using cloud based LPR(License Plate Recognition) service for effective parking. Structural improvements in the proposed system reduce costs, simplify installation, and respond quickly to failures and updates.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
• /
• v.36 no.12
• /
• pp.1016-1023
• /
• 2009

A license plate recognition system consists of image processing in which characters and features are extracted, and pattern recognition in which extracted characters are classified. Feature extraction plays an important role in not only the level of data reduction but also performance of recognition. Thus, in this paper, we focused on the recognition of numeral characters especially on the feature extraction of numeral characters which has much effect in the result of plate recognition. We suggest a hybrid statistical feature model which assures the best dispersion of input data by reassignment of clustering property of input data. And we verify the effectiveness of suggested model using multi-layer perceptron and learning vector quantization neural networks. The results show that the proposed feature extraction method preserves the information of a license plate well and also is robust and effective for even noisy and external environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
• /
• 2003.04c
• /
• pp.259-261
• /
• 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 Broadcast Engineering
• /
• v.26 no.4
• /
• pp.453-462
• /
• 2021

A lot of license plate data is required for car number recognition. License plate data needs to be balanced from past license plates to the latest license plates. However, it is difficult to obtain data from the actual past license plate to the latest ones. In order to solve this problem, a license plate recognition study through deep learning is being conducted by creating a synthetic license plates. Since the synthetic data have differences from real data, and various data augmentation techniques are used to solve these problems. Existing data augmentation simply used methods such as brightness, rotation, affine transformation, blur, and noise. In this paper, we apply a style transformation method that transforms synthetic data into real-world data styles with data augmentation methods. In addition, real license plate data are noisy when it is captured from a distance and under the dark environment. If we simply recognize characters with input data, chances of misrecognition are high. To improve character recognition, in this paper, we applied the DeblurGANv2 method as a quality improvement method for character recognition, increasing the accuracy of license plate recognition. The method of deep learning for license plate detection and license plate number recognition used YOLO-V5. To determine the performance of the synthetic license plate data, we construct a test set by collecting our own secured license plates. License plate detection without style conversion recorded 0.614 mAP. As a result of applying the style transformation, we confirm that the license plate detection performance was improved by recording 0.679mAP. In addition, the successul detection rate without image enhancement was 0.872, and the detection rate was 0.915 after image enhancement, confirming that the performance improved.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
• /
• 2003.11a
• /
• pp.539-542
• /
• 2003

자동차 산업의 발달로 인해 대두되는 자동차와 관련된 여러 사회 문제를 해결하기 위해 자동차의 자동 인식 시스템이 절실하게 요구되어지고 있다. 영상처리를 통한 자동차의 인식은 교통 단속은 물론 교통량 조사, 도난 차량 검거 등 여러 분야에서 사용 될 수 있고, 결과적으로 많은 노동력을 절약할 수 있다. 영상처리를 통한 주행 차량의 인식과 검색에 있어서 번호 판, 색깔, 차체의 모양 등 차량의 외판 정보가 중요한 요소가 된다. 본 논문에서는 차량의 번호 판과 색상 그리고 차량의 모델을 위한 라디에이터 그릴 부분을 이용하여 차량의 검색을 시도하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
• /
• 2006.05a
• /
• pp.352-357
• /
• 2006

매년 도로와 주차공간의 확장보다 차량의 수가 빠르게 증가하여 그에 따라 불법 주차 관리의 어려움이 증가하고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 지능형 주차 관리 시스템이 필요하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 획득된 차량 영상에서 수직 에지의 특징을 이용하여 번호판 영역과 개별 코드를 추출하고, 추출된 개별 코드를 퍼지 신경망 알고리즘을 제안하여 학습 및 인식한다. 본 논문에서는 차량 번호판 영역을 검출하기 위해 프리윗 마스크를 적용하여 수직 에지를 찾고, 차량 번호판의 정보를 이용하여 잡음을 제거한 후에 차량 번호판 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 차량 번호판 영역은 반복 이진화방법을 적용하여 이진화하고, 이진화된 차량 번호판 영역에 대해서 수직 분포도와 수평 분포도를 이용하여 번호판의 개별 코드를 추출한다 추출된 개별 코드는 제안된 퍼지 신경망 알고리즘을 적용하여 인식한다. 제안된 퍼지 신경망은 입력층과 중간층간의 학습 구조로는 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하고 중간층과 출력층간의 학습 구조는 Max_Min 신경망을 적용한다. 제안된 방법의 추출 및 인식 성능을 평가하기 위하여 실제 차량 영상 150장을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 차량 번호판 인식 방법보다 효율적이고 인식 성능이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
• /
• v.8 no.6
• /
• pp.453-459
• /
• 2015

In this paper, we propose a new digit recognition method based on opened enclosure. In the proposed method, each digit is divided into two parts, an upper part and a lower part, which are based on a cutting line that is modified depending on the number of intersection points. In the simulation, the performance evaluation through the data acquisition and application of the proposed algorithm was carried out and the result was presented.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
• /
• v.24 no.5
• /
• pp.713-725
• /
• 2019

Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a technology required for many applications such as Intelligent Transportation Systems and Video Surveillance Systems. Most of the studies have studied were about the detection and recognition of license plates on cars, and there is very little about detecting and recognizing license plates on motorbikes. In the case of a car, the license plate is located at the front or rear center of the vehicle and is a straight or slightly sloped license plate. Also, the background of the license plate is mainly monochromatic, and license plate detection and recognition process is less complicated. However since the motorbike is parked by using a kickstand, it is inclined at various angles when parked, so the process of recognizing characters on the motorbike license plate is more complicated. In this paper, we have developed a 2-stage YOLOv2 algorithm to detect the area of a license plate after detection of a motorbike area in order to improve the recognition accuracy of license plate for motorbike data set parked at various angles. In order to increase the detection rate, the size and number of the anchor boxes were adjusted according to the characteristics of the motorbike and license plate. Image warping algorithms were applied after detecting tilted license plates. As a result of simulating the license plate character recognition process, the proposed method had the recognition rate of license plate of 80.23% compared to the recognition rate of the conventional method(YOLOv2 without image warping) of 47.74%. Therefore, the proposed method can increase the recognition of tilted motorbike license plate character by using the adjustment of anchor boxes and the image warping which fit the motorbike license plate.