• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.1 s.104
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• pp.125-132
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• 2006

The existing recognition system of license plates cannot get the satisfactory result in noise environments. The purpose of this paper is to propose an algorithm that can recognize the region of license plates accurately in a noise environment. The algorithm is formulated by reorganizing the U- and V-channels of YUV color space as YUV is insensitive to light and carries less data than RGB color information. The region of license plates has been extracted by the geometric characteristics, sizes, and places of labeling images. The proposed algorithm was found to improve the process of extracting the region of license plates in various noise environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.193-198
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• 1998

본 논문은 차량 영상에서 번호판을 인식하는 방법에 관하여 기술한다. 번호판이 가지는 수평 경계선을 Peak & Valley로 표현하고, 번호판의 Color 특성을 이용하여 번호판 영역을 추출한 뒤, 번호판 영역에서 히스토그램 기법을 이용하여 문자를 추출하고, Maximum Likely Hood에 의해 문자를 인식한다.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.684-689
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose car license plate recognition using morphological information and an enhanced neural network. Morphological information on horizontal and vertical edges was used to extract the license plate from a car image. We used a contour tracking algorithm combined with the method of histogram and location information to extract individual characters in the extracted plate. The enhanced neural network is proposed for recognizing them, which has the method of combining the ART-1 and the supervised teaming method. The proposed method has applied to real world car images. The experimental results show that the proposed method has better the extraction rates than the methods with information of the thresholding, the RGB and the HSI, respectively. And the proposed neural network has better recognition performance than the conventional neural networks.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.304-308
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new method of recognizing the vehicle license plate using color space, morphological characteristics and ART2 algorithm. Morphological characteristics of old and/or new style vehicle license plate among the candidate regions are applied to remove noise areas using 8-directional contour tracking algorithm, then follow by the extraction of vehicle plate. From the extracted license plate area, plate morphological characteristics of each region are removed. After that, labeling algorithm to extract the individual characters are then combined. The classified individual character and numeric codes are applied to the ART2 algorithm for the learning and recognition. In order to evaluate the performance of our proposed extraction and recognition of vehicle license method, we have run experiments on 100 green plates and white plates. Experimental results shown that the proposed license plate extraction and recognition method was effective.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.138-141
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 색상 정보를 이용하여 배경 영역이 포함된 자동차의 전,후면 사진에서의 자동차 번호판 영역(녹색, 흰색) 추출과 추출된 번호판에서 글자를 분리해내는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 색상 정보를 이용하여 번호판을 추출하는 방법은 흰색 번호판(신형 번호판)의 경우에는 배경 영역에서 흰색인 영역도 많고 국내 차량 중에 흰색 차량이 많기 때문에 번호판 영역과 배경 영역 사이의 명확한 구분에 어려움이 있었다. 따라서 행별 Red값 변화도를 조사하여 배경 영역과 번호판 영역 사이의 명확한 구분을 하게 하며, 흰색 번호판의 경우에 추출이 안되면 흰색의 기준을 더 낮추어서 다시 영역 추출을 할 수 있는 재추출 알고리즘을 추가해서 비교적 어두운 사진에서도 번호판영역을 추출할 수 있도록 한다. 추출된 번호판에서 글자를 추출해내는 과정에서도 이진화를 거치면 노이즈가 많이 생기기 때문에 이를 줄이고자 행별 Red값 변화도를 조사하여 번호판 영역에서 위아래 부분의 노이즈를 줄일 수 있도록 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.275-278
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• 2003

자동차 번호판 인식 시스템은 영상획득, 번호판추출, 전처리(이진화), 문자영역 분할, 문자인식 등의 5가지 핵심 부분으로 구성된다. 따라서 자동차 번호판 인식 시스템의 최종 인식율은 각 단계의 성능에 따라 직접적인 영향을 받는다. 본 논문은 영상처리 기법을 이용하여 영상에서 번호판 영역을 추출을 위한 연구로 문자인식 단계에서 높은 인식율을 확보할 수 있도록 빠른 연산속도와 추출 정확성을 높일 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.139-142
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• 2000

자동차 번호판 일련번호를 인식하는 과정에서 차량이미지는 예상치 못할 정도로 복합적인 문제를 많이 포함하고 있다. 번호판 주위환경에서의 다양한 조건에 따른 적응성을 가지고 빠근 추출을 성공적으로 수행하는 것은 이 분야에서 매우 중요한 문제이다. 본 논문은 이러한 문제를 해결할 수 있는 자동차 번호판 일련번호 추출에 관한 연구로서, 레이블링기법과 적응성 신경망을 활성화시켜 일련번호를 추출하는 알고리즘을 제안하므로써 자동차 번호판 주위환경의 다양한 조건과 복합적 문제를 빠른 시간에 적응하여 해결을 할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2002

This paper proposes a vehicle license plate recognition system, which has relatively a simple structure and is highly tolerant of noise, by using the DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) coefficients extracted from the character region of a license plate and the LVQ(Learning Vector Quantization) neural network. The image of a license plate is taken from a captured vehicle image based on RGB color information, and the character region is derived by the histogram of the license plate and the relative position of individual characters in the plate. The feature vector obtained by the DCT of extracted character region is utilized as an input to the LVQ neural classifier fur the recognition process. In the experiment, 109 vehicle images captured under various types of circumstances were tested with the proposed method, and the relatively high extraction rate of license plates and recognition rate were achieved.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.379-387
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• 2001

We proposed an enhanced extraction method of vehicle plate, in which both the brightness variation of gray and the Hue value of HSI color model were used. For the extraction of the vehicle plate from a vehicle image, first of all, candidate regions for the vehicle plate were extracted from the image by using the property of brightness variation of the image. A real place region was determined among candidate regions by the density of pixels with the Hue value of green and white. For- extracting the feature area containing characters from the extracted vehicle plate, we used the histogram-based approach of individual characters. And we proposed and applied for the recognition of characters the enhanced ART2 algorithm which support the dynamical establishment of the vigilance threshold with the genera]iced union operator of Yager. In addition, we propose an enhanced SOSL algorithm which is integrated both enhanced ART2 and supervised learning methods. The performance evaluation was performed using 100's real vehicle images and the evaluation results demonstrated that the extraction rates of tole proposed extraction method were improved, compared with that of previous methods based un brightness variation, RGB and HSI individually . Furthermore, the recognition rates of the proposed algorithms were improved much more than that of the conventional ART2 and BP algorithms.