• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.313-319
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a novel method to extract an area of car licence plate and codes of vehicle number from a photographed car image using features on vertical edges and a new Fuzzy neural network algorithm to recognize extracted codes. Prewitt mask is used in searching for vertical edges for detection of an area of vehicle number plate and feature information of vehicle number palate is used to eliminate image noises and extract the plate area and individual codes of vehicle number. Finally, for recognition of extracted codes, we use the proposed Fuzzy neural network algorithm, in which FCM is used as the learning structure between input and middle layers and Max_Min neural network is used as the learning structure within inhibition and output layers. Through a variety of experiments using real 150 images of vehicle, we showed that the proposed method is more efficient than others.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.15-23
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• 2016

This paper proposes an effective algorithm of Korean license plate recognition. By applying Haar-like feature and Canny edge detection on a captured vehicle image, it is possible to find a connected rectangular, which is a strong candidate for license plate. The color information of license plate separates plates into white and green. Then, OTSU binary image processing and foreground neighbor pixel propagation algorithm CLNF will be applied to each license plates to reduce noise except numbers and letters. Finally, through labeling, numbers and letters will be extracted from the license plate. Letter and number regions, separated from the plate, pass through mesh method and thinning process for extracting feature vectors by X-Y projection method. The extracted feature vectors are classified using neural networks trained by backpropagation algorithm to execute final recognition process. The experiment results show that the proposed license plate recognition algorithm works effectively.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.9-16
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• 2012

The research of vehicle license plate recognition has been widely studied for the smart city project. The license plate recognition can be hard due to the geometric distortion and the image quality degradation in case of capturing the driving car image at CCTV without trigger signal on the road. In this paper, the high performance vehicle license plate recognition system using edge-based segment image is introduced which is robust in the geometric distortion and the image quality degradation according to non-trigger signal. The experimental results of the proposed real time license plate recognition algorithm which is implemented at the CCTV on the road show that the plate detection rate was 97.5% and the overall character recognition rate of the detected plates was 99.3% in a day average 1,535 vehicles for a week operation.

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1998.10b
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• pp.150-150
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• 1998

본 연구는 최근에 대두되는 첨단 교통체계(Intelligent Transportation Systems : ITS)중 첨단교통 관리체계(Advanced Traffic Management Systems : ATMS)에서 자동단속체계(Automatic Traffic Enforcement Systems : ATES)에 사용되는 자동차량번호판인식시스템의 핵심기술인 자동차량 번호판 추출에 관한 연구이다. 일반적으로 번호판익식시스템(License Plate Recogition System : LPRS)가 번호판을 인식하는데 있어서 번호판 추출과 문자인식, 크게 2개의 Process로 구분되어 수행된다. 본 연구에서는 도로상에 설치된 영상 카메라에서 얻은 차량의 영상을 바탕으로 차량의 번호판을 추출하는 새로운 영상처리기법을 제시하고 있다. 본 연구에서 제시한 영상처리기법은 메쉬와핑으로 차량번호판영역의 특징을 이용하여 추출해내는 방법이다. 메쉬란 직교하는 선들로 이루어진 그물 모양의 제어선을 말하는데 이 제어선은 가로와 세로로 한번씩 이미지를 왜곡하여 최종 이미지를 만들어낸다. 이 메쉬와핑기법은 정교하면서도 빠른 속도로 이미지를 처리할 수 있기 때문에 실시간 처리하는데 사용할 수 있다.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.174-177
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• 2000

자동차 번호판 인식 시스템을 구현하기 위해서는 영상에서 번호판을 추출하는 영역과 추출된 번호판에서 각 문자의 숫자를 추출하는 영역, 마지막으로 이를 인식하는 영역으로 나누어진다. 본 논문에서는 번호판 영역이 다른 영역보다 녹색의 밀집도가 높다는 특징을 이용하여 이미지에서 번호판을 추출하고, 개선된 퍼지 ART학습 알고리즘으로 자동차 번호판 인식에 적용한다. 실험결과에서는 여러 차량에 대해 인식율이 우수한 것을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.705-711
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• 2011

This paper proposes an effective algorithm of license plate recognition for industrial applications. By applying Canny edge detection on a vehicle image, it is possible to find a connected rectangular, which is a strong candidate for license plate. The color information of license plate separates plates into white and green. Then, OTSU binary image processing and foreground neighbor pixel propagation algorithm CLNF will be applied to each license plates to reduce noise except numbers and letters. Finally, through labeling, numbers and letters will be extracted from the license plate. Letter and number regions, separated from the plate, pass through mesh method and thinning process for extracting feature vectors by X-Y projection method. The extracted feature vectors are compared with the pre-learned weighting values by backpropagation neural network to execute final recognition process. The experiment results show that the proposed license plate recognition algorithm works effectively.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.1
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• pp.119-128
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• 2002

This paper proposes an efficient recognition method of car license plate from the car images by using both the dynamical thresholding and the neural network with enhanced learning algorithm. The car license plate is extracted by the dynamical thresholding based on the structural features and the density rates. Each characters and numbers from the p]ate is also extracted by the contour tracking algorithm. The enhanced neural network is proposed for recognizing them, which has the algorithm of combining the modified ART1 and the supervised learning method. The proposed method has applied to the real-world car images. The simulation results show that the proposed method has better the extraction rates than the methods with information of the gray brightness and the RGB, respectively. And the proposed method has better recognition performance than the conventional backpropagation neural network.

• 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.