• 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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• 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 Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.29-35
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• 2009

In this paper by using the image taken from the rear of the vehicle to effectively extract the license plate and how to recognize the characters appearing in the offer. How to existing research on the entire video by following the pre-edge (edge) images to obtain yijinhwa. Qualified heopeu in a binary image (Hough) to convert the horizontal and vertical lines to obtain, using the characteristics of the plates to extract the license plate area. The problem with this method, the processing time is so difficult to handle real-time status of irregular points, and visual contrast with yagangwan border does not appear in the plates to extract the license plate area is that it is not. In addition, the rear of the vehicle license plate area from images taken using the characteristics of the plates myeongamgap changes sutjapok in the area, background area and the number number area of the region confirmed the contrast of the car and identified the number and the number of 42 of distance to extract the license plate area. How to research, the existing damage to the border of the plate to fail to extract the license plate area, a matter of hours to resolve problems in real-time, practical application is processed. Chapter 100 as the results of the experiment the sample video image in a car that far experiment results automatically read license plates have been able to extract the license plate and failing to represent 13% of images, character recognition result of failing to represent the image was 0.4%

• 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.

• 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 Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.32-43
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• 2004

In this paper, a system which can effectively recognize the plate image extracted from camera set on a moving car is proposed. To extract car licence plate from moving vehicles, multiple candidates are maintained based on the strong vertical edges which are found in the region of car licence plate. A candidate region is selected among them based on the ratio of background and characters. We also make a comparative study of recognition performance between support vector machines and modular neural networks. The experimental results lead us to the conclusion that the former is superior to the latter. For a better recognition rate, a simple method combining the support vector machine with modular neural network where the output of the latter is used as the input of the former is suggested and evaluated. As we expected, the hybrid one shows the best result among those three methods we have mentioned.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.601-603
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• 2003

최근에 차량수의 증가로 인하여 교통량이 증가하고 그로 인하여 ITS(Intelligent Transport System)에 대한 관심이 증가하게 되었다. 그 중에서도 LPR system(License Plate Recognition system)은 ITS에서 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 차량의 번호를 인식하기 위해 선행되어야 하는 과정인 대상 차량의 번호판 영역을 추출하고 구성 숫자들을 분리하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이 알고리즘은 영상에서 차량의 번호판 영역을 찾는 부분과 번호판의 숫자를 분리하는 부분으로 구성이 되어 있다. 먼저 입력 영상에서 gradient를 구하게 된다. 구해진 gradient에서 차량의 구조와 transition의 횟수를 조사를 통해서 번호판 영역을 찾게 된다. 찾아진 번호판 영역에서 adaptive threshold를 적용하여 숫자들을 분리하게 된다. 실내 주차장 환경에서 촬영된 영상을 대상으로 실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 정리하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 2007

In order to recognize a vehicle license plate, the region of the license plate should be extracted from a vehicle image. Then, character region should be separated from the background image and characters are recognized using some neural networks with selected feature vectors. Of course, choice of feature vectors which serve as the basis of the character recognition has an important effect on recognition result as well as reduction of data amount. In this paper, we propose a novel feature extraction method in which number images are decomposed into linear combination of eigennumbers and show the validity of this method by applying to the recognition of numeric characters in license plates. The experimental results show the recognition rate of 95.3% for about 500 vehicle images with multi-layer perceptron neural network in the eigennumber space. Compared with the conventional mesh feature, it shows a better recognition rate by 5%.

• 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.