• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.413-417
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• 2007

2006년 11월 이후 신 차량 번호판 등장 후, 신 차량 번호판 차량이 꾸준히 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 속도위반, 신호위반 단속, 무인 주차 관리 시스템, 범죄 및 도주 차량 검거, 고속도로 톨게이트에서 통행료 지불로 인한 교통 체증현상을 해소하기 위한 자동 요금 징수와 같은 다양한 경우에서 신 자동차 번호판의 특징에 맞는 인식 시스템이 요구되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 지능형 신 자동차 번호판 인식 방법을 제안한다. 무인 카메라에서 획득된 신 차량 영상을 그레이 레벨로 변환한 후에 블록 이진화한다. 블록 이진화된 차량 영상을 대상으로 차량의 형태학적 특징을 적용하여 잡음을 제거한 후, 번호판 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 번호판 영역에 대해 Grassfire 알고리즘을 적용하여 개별 코드를 추출한다. 차량 번호판을 인식하기 위하여 추출된 개별 코드를 퍼지 ART 알고리즘을 적용하여 학습 및 인식한다. 제안된 차량 번호판 추출 및 인식 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 100장의 차량 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 차량 번호판 추출 및 인식 방법이 실험을 통해서 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.56-63
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• 2014

This paper deals with a binarization for plate number recognition. The binarization process converts an image into a binary image and plays an important role for automatically recognizing plate number. The rear license plate has often a shadowed image which causes erroneous binarized image due to non-uniform illumination. In this paper, a binarization method is proposed in which the shadow line is detected in a rear plate with a shadow. And then the histogram matching is conducted for the two image separated by the shadow line. After histogram matching, two images are joined and finally Otsu method is applied for the binarization. In the experiment, the proposed algorithm shows robust performance compared to the conventional method in the presence of estimation error in the shadow line.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.273-278
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• 2008

Cars attaching new license plates are increasing after introducing the new format of car license plate in Korea. Therefore, a car new license plate recognition system is required for various fields using automatic recognition of car license plates, automatic parking management systems and arrest of criminal or missing vehicles. In this paper, we proposed an intelligent new car license plate recognition method for the various fields. The proposed method is as follows. First of all, an acquired color image from a surveillance camera is converted to a gray level image and binarized by block binarization method. Second, noises of the binarized image removed by morphological characteristics of cars and then license plate area is extracted. Third, individual characters are extracted from the extracted license plate area using Grassfire algorithm. lastly, the extracted characters are learned and recognized by a fuzzy ART algorithm for final car license plate recognition. In the experiment using 100 car images, we could see that the proposed method is efficient.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.453-462
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• 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 Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.437-442
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• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.05a
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• pp.617-620
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• 2020

최근, 국내 자동차 보유율은 매년 증가하고 있으며, 자동차 증가율에 따라 자동차로 인한 사건, 사고 발생률 또한 증가하고 있다. 국가에서도 지능형교통시스템(ITS) 중 차량 변호판을 인식하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 차량 번호판 인식은 사건·사고 발생차량을 추적하거나 주차 무인시스템 등의 분야에 적용된다. 본 논문에서는 차량 번호판 영역을 추출하기 위한 여러 가지 방법들을 비교 분석하여 각 상황에 맞는 알고리즘을 적용하고자 한다.

• 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.14 no.11
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• pp.61-71
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• 2009

Vehicle license plate is the only way to check the registrated information of a vehicle. Many works have been devoted to the vision system of recognizing the license plate, which has been widely used to control an illegal parking. However, it is difficult to correctly segment characters on the license plate since an illumination is affected by a weather change and a neighboring obstacles. This paper proposes a robust method of segmenting the character of the license plate on irregular illumination condition. The proposed method enhance the contrast of license plate images using the Chi-Square probability density function. For segmenting characters on the license plate, binary images with the high quality are gained by applying the adaptive threshold. Preprocessing and labeling algorithm are used to eliminate noises existing during the whole segmentation process. Finally, profiling method is applied to segment characters on license plate from binary images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.627-630
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• 2003

기존의 자동차 번호판 인식시스템은 특정위치에 설치된 카메라로부터 획득한 영상을 서버로 전송하여 서버가 모든 처리 및 인식을 하게 된다. 하지만 다량의 카메라를 설치할 경우 서버의 부하가 심해지는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 카메라에 연결된 DSP 보드를 통해 자동차 번호판 인식에 필요한 각각의 문자라 숫자를 추출하고, 이진화 및 정규화 과정을 거쳐 서버로 전송함으로써, 서버는 인식단계만을 수행하여 부하를 줄이는 방식을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2016

We propose an adaptive histogram stretching algorithm for application to a car's personal recorder. The algorithm was used for pre-processing to detect the license plate region in an image from a personal recorder. The algorithm employs a Probability Density Function (PDF) and Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) to analyze the distribution diagram of the images. These two functions are calculated using an image obtained by sampling at a certain pixel interval. The images were subjected to different levels of stretching, and experiments were done on the images to extract their characteristics. The results show that the proposed algorithm provides less deterioration than conventional algorithms. Moreover, contrast is enhanced according to the characteristics of the image. The algorithm could provide better performance than existing algorithms in applications for detecting search regions for license plates.