• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.785-788
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• 2000

The recognition system of a car plate is largely classified as the extraction and recognition of number plate. In this paper, we extract the number plate domain by using a thresholding method as a preprocess step. The computation of the density in a given mask provides a clue of a candidate domain whose density ratio corresponds to the properties of the number plate obtained in the best condition. The contour of the number plate for the recognition of the texts of number plate is extracted by operating Kohonen Algorithm in a localized region. The algorithm reduces noises around the contour. The recognition system with the density computation and Kohonen Algorithm shows a high performance in the real system in connection with a car number plate.

• 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%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.203-207
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• 2006

Nowadays, Cars are continuing to grow at an alarming rate but they also cause many problems such as traffic accident, pollutions and so on. One of the most effective methods that prevent traffic accidents is the use of traffic monitoring systems, which are already widely used in many countries. The monitoring system is beginning to be used in domestic recently. An intelligent monitoring system generates photo images of cars as well as identifies cars by recognizing their plates. That is, the system automatically recognizes characters of vehicle plates. An automatic vehicle plate recognition consists of two main module: a vehicle plate locating module and a vehicle plate number identification module. We study for a vehicle plate number identification module in this paper. We use image preprocessing, feature extraction, multi-layer neural networks for recognizing characters of vehicle plates and we present a feature-comparison method for improving the performance of vehicle plate number identification module. In the experiment on identifying vehicle plate number, 300 images taken from various scenes were used. Of which, 8 images have been failed to identify vehicle plate number and the overall rate of success for our vehicle plate recognition algorithm is 98%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.109-110
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 효율적으로 주차 공간을 확보와 주차장 성능을 향상을 위한 방법을 조사하였다. 이러한 방법으로는 차량 번호판 조사를 이용하여 주차 회전율을 구하는 방법이 있었다. 본 연구로 효율적으로 주차장을 사용하고 있는지를 판단할 수 있다. 또한 차량의 주차를 하여 잘 소통되는지를 알 수 있었다.

• 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 Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.802-804
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• 2004

번호판 인식시스템의 개발에 있어서 번호판 영역의 추출단계는 시스템의 성능에 큰 영향을 미치는 단계이며 문자인식단계 이상으로 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 웹 카메라를 이용하여 얻어진 저해상도 영상으로부터 번호판 고유의 색상과 텍스쳐를 이용하여 번호판영역을 추출하고, 허프변환을 이용한 기울어진 영상의 회전을 통해 번호판 문자 영역화 및 인식에 용이한 차량번호판 영상을 추출하는 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.123-127
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 2006년 11월 신 차량 번호판 등장 이후 꾸준히 증가하고 있는 흰색 번호판 차량에서 흰색 번호판 추출에 관한 연구를 수행한다. 먼저 입력된 차랑 영상을 그레이 레벨로 변환 후, 국부적으로 밝기 보정을 수행하고, Otsu 판별식을 이용해 이진화 한다. 이진화 된 차량 영상에서 번호판 특성을 이용하며 라인 구조요소에 의한 침식연산과 채움 연산을 적용한다. 이후, 수평 투영으로 명암 변화가 심한 후보 영역을 찾고, 다시 수직 투영을 하여 일정구간에서 흰색의 값이 가장 많이 나타나는 구간을 찾는다. 마지막으로 번호판의 형태학적 특징을 이용해 번호판을 추출한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 적용한 결과 번호판 크기가 일정하지 않거나 불규칙한 조명 상태에서도 번호판 추출이 가능하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.595-604
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• 2013

Currently, registered number of imported vehicles is increasing rapidly over the years. Accordingly, environment improvements of vehicle maintenance company for maintenance of luxury vehicle such as imported vehicle are continuously being made. In this paper, we propose a key frame extraction method based on HSV color model for smart vehicle management system implementation to offer for customer reliability of maintenance vehicle. After automatically recognize the license plates of the vehicle using vehicle license plate recognition system when the vehicle come in the car center, we check the repair history and request of the vehicle based on it. We implement mobile services which provide extracted key frame images to the user after extract key frames from vehicle repair video. In addition, we verify the superiority of key frame extraction method by applying a smart vehicle management system. Finally, we convert the RGB color to HSV color to improve the performance of proposed key frame extraction scheme. As a result, we confirmed that our scheme is more excellence about 30% in terms of recall than RGB color model from the performance evaluations.

• 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 Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.7
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• pp.1970-1979
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• 1999

This paper proposes an AVI system which recognizes the license plate and the driver's face simultaneously using passive AVI techniques. For this, firstly, the pro-processing algorithm independent of the environment is proposed and region extraction of the car number plate and the driver's face is described. Secondly, characters are separated and recognition parameters are extracted from target regions. Thirdly, template matching of car number plate is performed and the fuzzy relation matrix of driver face is made for the final recognition processes. The merits of the proposed system are following : Pre-processing is accomplished regardless of the environment. The application areas of conventional AVI system can be expanded in the content that the driver's face is also recognized in the proposed system compared with only the number plast is recognized in the existing systems.