• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.1947-1954
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• 2009

Camera-captured car plate images contain much variation and noise and the character images in a plate are typically very small. We attempted to improve the plate identification efficiency suitable for this undesirable condition. We experimented various image preprocessing and feature extracting methods and the very effective features that can compensate one feature's limitation is determined through extensive experiments. Finally two very effective features that can complement the limitations of each other feature(classifier) are determined and the efficiency is proved by recognition experiments. This approach is very necessary when handling plate character images which are typically small, various, and noisy. Individual classification result, confidence factor, region name relation and feedback verification are comprehensively considered to enhance the overall recognition efficiency. The efficiency of our method is verified by a recognition experiment using real car plate images taken from traffic roads.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.452-453
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 차량의 번호판 인식과 차량 수리 영상 키프레임 추출을 기반으로 u-차량 고객 관리 시스템을 제안한다. 또한 스마폰기반의 관리 시스템을 설계함으로써 사용자는 어느 장소에서나 차량의 수리 현장과 비용을 확인할 수 있는 장점을 가진다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.209-215
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• 2015

In the past, there have been many theory and algorithms for vehicle tracking. But the time complexity of many feature point matching methods for vehicle tracking are exponential. Also, object segmentation and detection algorithms presented for vehicle tracking are exhaustive and time consuming. Therefore, we present the fast and efficient two stages method that can efficiently track the many moving vehicles on the road. The first detects the vehicle plate regions and extracts the feature points of vehicle plates. The second associates the feature points between frames using dynamic programming.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.383-385
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• 2000

차량 번호판 문자영상으로부터 여러 가지 특징 추출 방법을 조합하여 입력특징소를 재구성하고, 신경망을 이용하여 문자를 인식한다. 속도 개선을 위해 특별한 전처리 과정없이 이치화와 크기 정규화만을 수행한 후 그물망 방법과 BLT 방법, 정규화된 투영값 특정 방법을 조합하여 입력특징소를 구성한다. 본 연구에서는 숫자 인식에서 그물망 방법과 BLT 방법을 이용하여 잡음으로 인한 유사 문자의 오인식을 해결하였고, 문자 인식에서는 정규화된 투영값 특징을 이용하여 문자의 유형을 분류한 후 자소를 개별적으로 인식하였다. 이로써 모음 인식 경우에 중요한 역할을 하는 작은 획의 영역에 BLT 방법을 사용함으로 기존 연구에서의 모음 오인식 문제를 해결하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.257-264
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• 2005

The number of vehicles are rapidly increased as our society is developed. The vehicle recognition has been studied for a while because many people acknowledged it has critical functions to solve the problems of traffic control or vehicle-related crimes. In this paper a novel method is proposed to recognize vehicle models corresponding makers. Vehicles' models are recognized based on the texture parameters from segmented radiator region above a number plate. A three-layer neural network was built and trained with the texture features for recognition. The proposed method shows $93.7\%$ of recognition rate and $99.7\%$ of specificity for vehicles' model.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.471-477
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a low-cost license plate recognition system based on smart cam system using Android. The proposed system consists of a portable device and server. Potable device Hardware consists of ARM Cortex-A9 (S5PV210) processor control unit, a power supply device, wired and wireless communication, input/output unit. We develope Linux kernel and dedicated device driver for WiFi module and camera. The license plate recognition algorithm is consisted of setting candidate plates areas with canny edge detector, extracting license plate number with Labeling, recognizing with template matching, etc. The number that is recognized by the device is transmitted to the remote server via the user mobile phone, and the server re-transfer the vehicle information in the database to the portable device. To verify the utility of the proposed system, user photographs the license plate of any vehicle in the natural environment. Confirming the recognition result, the recognition rate was 95%. The proposed system was suitable for low cost portable license plate recognition device, it enabled the stability of the system when used long time by using the Android operating system.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.6
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• pp.705-710
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• 2003

Recent years, as a rapid development of multimedia technology, video database system to retrieve video data efficiently seems to core technology in the oriented society. This thesis describes an efficient automatic frame detection and location method for content based retrieval of video. Frame extraction part is consist of incoming / outgoing car frame extraction and car number frame extraction stage. We gain star/end time of car video also car number frames. Frames are selected at fixed time interval from video and key frames are selected by color scale histogram and edge operation method. Car frame recognized can be searched by content based retrieval method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.303-304
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• 2015

최근 차량을 이용한 범죄가 점점 증가하고 있고, 그로인해 범죄 차량의 식별 또한 많은 사람들의 관심을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 차량 식별을 위해 방범용 CCTV 영상을 이용한다. 차량 방범을 위한 CCTV 이미지 속에서 얻을 수 있는 차량 내 정보는 크게 번호판, 모델, 크기, 색상 등 여러 가지가 있는데, 본 논문에서는 그중 하나인 색상을 인식하는 방법에 대하여 제안한다. 기존에는 여러 가지 색상공간을 이용하여 추출하는 방법을 많이 사용했는데, 단순히 색상공간만으로는 무채색의 차량 추출이 어렵다. 이를 보완하기 위해 HSI 색상공간과 히스토그램의 분산을 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 이용하여 차량을 보다 정확한 색상별로 검색하는 것이 가능하며, 또한 차량 외의 다른 물체들의 색상 인식에도 응용 가능하다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.78-84
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• 2016

This paper presents and implements a vehicle speed measurement system using a license plate recognition system and a stereo camera. Using the feature points of the license plate recognition system, the disparity information is extracted and then the distance to the feature points is calculated by using the disparity information. In this paper, a vehicle speed is measured using the adjacent distances from consecutive stereo images and the corresponding time of the distances. Actual vehicle speed is also measured using the reference measurement equipment (tape switch based system) in order to test the accuracy of the proposed speed measurement system. The implemented stereo based speed measurement system shows appropriate result within specification both in the daytime and nighttime experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.2645-2650
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• 2014

This paper researches on securing parking spaces and improving parking performance, by use of vehicle license plate investigation for average parking time and parking turnover ratio. Even though general surveys on vehicle license plate investigation are performed by the person, our survey is performed by the machine, CCTV. Unusually, our method checks average parking time and parking turnover ratio at time intervals of the survey. So, it is easy to check whether a parking lot is effectively used and its traffic flows smoothly or not. In our experiment, we exclude a method to recognize characters by use of 4-direction projection.