• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.1188-1194
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• 2018

This paper proposes an image enhancement-based license plate detection algorithm to improve the overall performance of system. Non-uniform illumination conditions have huge impact on overall plate detection system accuracy. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for color image enhancement-based license plate detection for improving accuracy of images degraded by excessively strong and low sunlight. Firstly, the image is enhanced by Multi-Scale Retinex algorithm. Secondly, a plate detection method is employed to take advantage of geometric properties of connected components, which can significantly reduce the undesired plate regions. Finally, intersection over union method is applied for detecting the accurate location of number plate. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves the accuracy of plate detection system.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제9D권6호
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• pp.1113-1118
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• 2002

자동차 번호판 인식 시스템에서 가장 중요한 요소는 자동차 이미지로부터 번호판 영역을 정확히 검출해 내는 것이다. 자동차 이미지에서 번호판 영역을 추출하기 위한 방법으로 색상과 밝기 정보와 자동차 번호판의 가로 : 세로 비율 등 번호판을 인식할 수 있는 정보를 혼용한 ACL 알고리즘을 제안한다 ACL 알고리즘을 사용함으로써 기존의 색상 정보나 명암 정보만을 이용할 경우 자동차 번호판 영역 추출이 잘되지 않는 문제를 해소시켜 준다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 ACL 알고리즘은 자동차 이미지에서 번호판 영역을 추출하기 위하여 색상 정보와 명암 정보, 기타 자동차 번호판을 판단할 수 있는 정보를 모두 이용한다. ACL 알고리즘을 이용하여 번호판 추출 실험을 한 결과 97%의 추출률을 보였다. ACL 알고리즘을 이용하여 추출된 번호판을 이용하여 문자 영역, 문자 인식을 실험한 결과 92%의 결과를 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.163-172
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• 2017

A high performance license plate recognition system (LPRS) is proposed in this work. The proposed LPRS is composed of the following three main stages: (i) plate region determination, (ii) character segmentation, and (iii) character recognition. During the plate region determination stage, the image is enhanced by image processing algorithms to increase system performance. The rectangular license plate region is obtained using edge-based image processing methods on the binarized image. With the help of skew correction, the plate region is prepared for the character segmentation stage. Characters are separated from each other using vertical projections on the plate region. Segmented characters are prepared for the character recognition stage by a thinning process. At the character recognition stage, a three-layer feedforward artificial neural network using a backpropagation learning algorithm is constructed and the characters are determined.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.3188-3207
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an image enhancement algorithm to improve license plate extraction rate in various environments (Day Street, Night Street, Underground parking lot, etc.). The proposed algorithm is composed of image enhancement algorithm and license plate extraction algorithm. The image enhancement method can improve an image quality of the degraded image, which utilizes a histogram information and overall gray level distribution of an image. The proposed algorithm employs an interpolated probability distribution value (PDV) in order to control a sudden change in image brightness. Probability distribution value can be calculated using cumulative distribution function (CDF) and probability density function (PDF) of the captured image, whose values are achieved by brightness distribution of the captured image. Also, by adjusting the image enhancement factor of each part region based on image pixel information, it provides a function that can adjust the gradation of the image in more details. This processed gray image is converted into a binary image, which fuses narrow breaks and long thin gulfs, eliminates small holes, and fills gaps in the contour by using morphology operations. Then license plate region is detected based on aspect ratio and license plate size of the bound box drawn on connected license plate areas. The images have been captured by using a video camera or a personal image recorder installed in front of the cars. The captured images have included several license plates on multilane roads. Simulation has been executed using OpenCV and MATLAB. The results show that the extraction success rate is more improved than the conventional algorithms.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2014

A vehicle license plate includes the most important information for recognition and classification of the vehicle. In this paper, we propose a vehicle license plate recognition system using image binarization and template matching. In the proposed system, an image of the vehicle license plate is converted into a gray scale image and the gray image undergoes the binarization process. Finally, the numbers on the plate are extracted from the binary image using the template matching algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.1718-1721
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• 1997

An image processing algorithm is developed in order to recognize the type of cars, the position of a number plate and the characters on the plate. to recognize the type of cars, comparison of two images is used. One has a car image, the other is just a background image without car. After that recognition, a vertical line filter is used to find the location of the plate. Finally the simularity mehod is used to recognize the numbers on plates.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.747-753
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• 2018

자동차 블랙박스 영상용 자동차 번호판 인식 시스템에서는 수시로 변하는 도로 주변의 외부 환경에 의해 자동차 번호판에 그림자가 존재하는 경우가 많이 발생한다. 이러한 그림자는 번호판의 문자와 숫자의 개별 문자 분할 과정에서 예상하지 않은 오류를 발생시키게 되고, 그 결과 전체적인 자동차 번호판 인식률을 저하시킨다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 환경에서 번호판 인식률을 높이고자, 번호판의 그림자를 효과적으로 제거하는 번호판 영상 이진화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 그림자의 경계를 기준으로 그림자가 드리운 영역과 드리우지 않은 영역으로 분할하는데, 그림자의 경계를 찾기 위해 최소 자승법을 사용하여 그림자 경계선에 대한 곡선을 추정한다. 그림자가 존재하는 자동차 번호판의 영상에 대해 시뮬레이션을 수행하였으며, 그 결과 기존 알고리즘 보다 훨씬 높은 인식률을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a license plate detection method of running cars in various road images. The proposed method first classifies the road image into day and night images to improve detection accuracy, and then the tail-light regions are detected by finding red color areas in RGB color space. The candidate regions of the license plate areas are detected by using symmetrical property, size, width and variance of the tail-light regions, and to find the license plate areas of the various sizes the morphological operations with adaptive size structuring elements are applied. Finally, the plate area is verified and confirmed with the geometrical and image features of the license plate areas. The proposed method was tested with the various road images and the detection rates (precisions) of 84.2% of day images and 87.4% of night images were achieved.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2012

This paper presents an image processing-based validation method for unrecognizable numbers in severely distorted license plate images which have been degraded by various factors including low-resolution, low light-level, geometric distortion, and periodic noise. Existing vehicle license plate recognition (LPR) methods assume that most of the image degradation factors have been removed before performing the recognition of printed numbers and letters. If this is not the case, conventional LPR becomes impossible. The proposed method adopts a novel approach where a set of reference number images are intentionally degraded using the same factors estimated from the input image. After a series of image processing steps, including geometric transformation, super-resolution, and filtering, a comparison using cross-correlation between the intentionally degraded reference and the input images can provide a successful identification of the visually unrecognizable numbers. The proposed method makes it possible to validate numbers in a license plate image taken under low light-level conditions. In the experiment, using an extended set of test images that are unrecognizable to human vision, the proposed method provides a successful recognition rate of over 95%, whereas most existing LPR methods fail due to the severe distortion.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈B:순수및응용수학
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.321-332
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• 2010

In this paper, we experiment image warping and morphing. In image warping, we use radial basis functions : Thin Plate Spline, Multi-quadratic and Gaussian. Then we obtain the fact that Thin Plate Spline interpolation of the displacement with reverse mapping is the efficient means of image warping. Reflecting the result of image warping, we generate two examples of image morphing.