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

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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• v.35T no.3
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• pp.46-52
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• 1998

In this paper, after inputting the computer with the attached number plate on the vehicle, using it, the color decomposition method and back propagation neural network proposed the extractable method of the vehicle number plate at high speed. This method separated R, G, B signal form input moving vehicle image to computer through video camera, then after transform this R, G, B signal into input image data of the computer by using color depth of vehicle number plate and store up binary value in the memory frame buffer. After adapting character's recognition algorithm, also improving this, by adapting back propagation neural network makes the vehicle number plate recognition system. Also minimalizing the similar color's confusion, adapting horizontal and vertical extracting algorithm by using the vehicle's rectangular architecture shows the extract and character's recognition of the vehicle number plate at high speed.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.122-130
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• 2009

Conventional approaches for car number plate detection have dealt with those input images having similar sizes and simple background acquired under well organized environment. Thus their performance get reduced when input images include number plates with different sizes and when they are acquired under different lighting conditions. To solve these problem, this paper proposes a new scheme that uses the geometrical features of number plates and their topological information with reference to other features of the car. In the first step, those edges constructing a rectangle are detected and several pixels neighboring those edges are selected as the seed pixels for region growing. For region growing, color and intensity are used as the features, and the result regions are merged to construct the candidate for a number plate if their features are within a certain boundary. Once the candidates for the number plates are generated then their topological relations with other parts of the car such as lights are tested to finally determine the number plate region. The experimental results have shown that the proposed method can be used even for detecting small size number plates where characters are not visible.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.87-91
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• 2003

In this paper, a rotation invariant fingerprint identification system is implemented using the circular harmonic filter and phase only correlator. We extracted the phase component from input fingerprint image and correlate it with the circular harmonic filter of the reference fingerprint image by POC. The input image is obtained using a prism operating in the internal full reflection mode. Then the input image is transformed to two dimensional Fourier spectrum in optical way and the phase component is extracted using a digital system from the spectrum. Because composed of the optical system and digital algorithm, the proposed system has the advantages of the two technologies such as realtime parallel processing property of the optics and the flexibility of the digital system.

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

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.5 s.37
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• pp.87-94
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• 2005

This paper describes the method of detecting the region of vehicle number plate in colored car image with number plate. Vehicle number plate region generally shows formula colors in accordance with type of car. According to this, we use the method to combine a color ingredient H of HSI color model and a color ingredient Q of YIQ color model. However, the defect which a total operation time takes much exists if it uses such method. Therefore, in this paper, the concurrent accomplishes a candidate area extraction operation as draw a color H and Q ingredient among steps of extracting a region of vehicle number Plate. After the above step, as a next step in combination with color H and Q we can accomplish an region extraction fast by comparing to candidate regions extracted from each steps not to do a comparison operation to all of image pixel information. We also show implementation results Processed at each steps and compare with extraction time according to image resolutions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.1987-1996
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• 2009

Recently, the color of vehicle license plate has been changed from green to white. Thus the vehicle plate recognition system used for parking management systems, speed and signal violation detection systems should be robust to the both colors. This paper presents a vehicle license plate recognition system, which works on both of green and white plate at the same time. In the proposed system, the image of license plate is taken from a captured vehicle image by using morphological information. In the next, each character region in the license plate image is extracted based on the vertical and horizontal projection of plate image and the relative position of individual characters. Finally, for the recognition process of extracted characters, PCA(Principal Component Analysis) and LDA(Linear Discriminant Analysis) are sequentially utilized. In the experiment, vehicle license plates of both green background and white background captured under irregular illumination conditions have been tested, and the relatively high extraction and recognition rates are observed.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.3D
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• pp.349-352
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• 2006

To cope with traffic congestion, traffic accidents and lack of parking facilities, caused by dramatic increase in total vehicle number, vigorous researches on managing vehicles efficiently are done, both domestically and internationally. The vehicle license plate recognition makes effective management of traffic possible, with its wide application in many fields, covering from speed enforcement, collecting toll, stolen vehicle detection to parking management. The vehicle license plate recognition system causes high cost for collecting training data. Many researches are done by using the virtual sample method, which can be effective for utilizing limited number of training data by generating virtual sample. This paper investigates techniques to improve the performance of vehicle license plate recognition by using the training data's annexation. Also, popular methods for virtual sample creation used for text recognition algorithm are analyzed and their effectiveness is verified.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06c
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• pp.407-411
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• 2007

이 논문은 우리나라 차량 영상에서 번호판 영역을 추출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 우리나라 번호판은 하단에 네개의 숫자를 포함하고 있으므로, 네 개의 숫자를 찾으면 번호판을 추출 할 수 있다. 제안하는 방법은 입력된 영상에서 숫자의 가능성을 가진 연결 요소를 검출하고 이들을 군집화 한다. 군집화 된 연결요소들을 바탕으로 숫자 네개(4-digits) 후보를 생성한다. 4-digits 후보들을 인식하여 숫자의 가능성을 측정하고, 적합도로 변환한다. 후보영역 중 적합도가 가장 높은 영역을 번호판 영역으로 추출한다. 적합도는 Perfect Metrics 방법으로 측정하였다. 제안하는 방법을 주간 영상 4600장과 야간 영상 264장으로 테스트 한 결과 각각 97.23%, 95.45%의 검출률과 0.09%, 0.11%의 오검출률을 얻었다.

• 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.