• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1153-1164
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an efficient car management system based on object-oriented modeling using car number recognition and smart phone. The proposed system perceives car number of repair vehicle after recognizing the licence plate using an IP camera in real time. And then, existing repair history information of the recognized car is be displayed in DID. In addition, maintenance process is shooting video while auto maintenance mechanic repairs car through IP-camera. That will be provide customer car identification and repairs history management function by sending key frames extracted from recorded video automatically. We provide user graphic interface based on web and mobile for your convenience. The module design of the proposed system apply software design modeling based on granular object-oriented considering reuse and extensibility after implementation. Car repairs center and maintenance companies can improve business efficiency, as well as the requested vehicle repair can increase customer confidence.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.32-39
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• 2011

Even if the traffic light is green, if vehicles enter a jammed intersection, they are violation of the law. The police is enforcing law as a part of a nation wide campaign. Because, using the camcorder, the police can not do enforcement the offending vehicle, there are other techniques. Our research group proposed automated photographic equipment enable to enforce moving violation in intersection. Using new license plate recognition technology and backtracking technology to trace the offending vehicle, once the system detects a violator, it records 8 wide pictures and 1picture from the front vehicle, showing it enter and proceed through the intersection. Field experimental results obtained in the system, the following conclusions. The three measures of effectiveness investigated were recognition rate 83.5, mis-match recognition rate 1.5%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.337-342
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• 2008

최근 들어 기존의 녹색 바탕 차량 번호판에서, 흰색 바탕의 신 차량 번호판으로 교체되고 있다. 하지만 아직 기존 차량 번호판이 신 차량 번호판으로 전면 교체되지 않아 두 번호판 모두 사용되고 있다. 따라서 주차관리 시스템, 속도위반, 신호 위반 등 무인 카메라를 이용한 시스템에서, 기존 차량 번호판과 신 차량 번호판의 특징에 맞는 인식 시스템이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 기존 차량 번호판과 신 차량 번호판을 통합한, 지능형 차량 번호판 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 무인 카메라에서 획득된 차량 영상에서 번호판의 색상 정보를 이용하여 기존 차량 번호판과 신 차량 번호판을 구분한다. 기존 차량 번호판인 경우에는 HSI 컬러 공간을 이용하여 이진화를 적용하며, 신 차량 번호판인 경우에는 블록 이진화를 적용한다. 이진화된 영상을 대상으로 차량의 형태학적 특징을 이용하여 잡음을 제거한 후, 차량 번호판 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 차량 번호판 영역에 대해 Labeling 알고리즘을 적용하여 개별 문자를 추출한다. 추출된 개별 문자는 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하여 인식한다. 제안된 차량 번호판 추출 및 인식 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 160장의 기존 차량 영상과 100장의 신 차량 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 차량 번호판 추출 및 인식 방법이 실험을 통해서 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.363-368
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• 2016

Rectangular shape detection plays an important role in many image recognition systems. However, it requires continued research for its improved performance. In this study, we propose a strong rectangular shape detection algorithm, which combines the canny edge and line detection algorithms based on the perpendicularity and parallelism of a rectangle. First, we use the canny edge detection algorithm in order to obtain an image edge map. We then find the edge of the contour by using the connected component and find each edge contour from the edge map by using a DP (douglas-peucker) algorithm, and convert the contour into a polyline segment by using a DP algorithm. Each of the segments is compared with each other to calculate parallelism, whether or not the segment intersects the perpendicularity intersecting corner necessary to detect the rectangular shape. Using the perpendicularity and the parallelism, the four best line segments are selected and whether a determined the rectangular shape about the combination. According to the result of the experiment, the proposed rectangular shape detection algorithm strongly showed the size, location, direction, and color of the various objects. In addition, the proposed algorithm is applied to the license plate detecting and it wants to show the strength of the results.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 2013

Smart surveillance, is the use of automatic video analysis technologies in video surveillance applications. We present a robust object tracking method using pan-tilt-zoom camera for intelligent surveillance System, As the result of the experiment using 78 vehicle, the success rate of the tracking for moving object & non-moving object werw 97.4% and 91%. and 84.6%. the success rate o PTZ control for license plate image.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1008-1016
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• 2015

This paper proposes a method for detecting the front side of vehicles. The method can find the car side with a license plate even with complicated and cluttered backgrounds. A convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to solve the detection problem as a unified framework combining feature detection, classification, searching, and localization estimation and improve the reliability of the system with simplicity of usage. The proposed CNN structure avoids sliding window search to find the locations of vehicles and reduces the computing time to achieve real-time processing. Multiple responses of the network for vehicle position are further processed by a weighted clustering and probabilistic threshold decision method. Experiments using real images in parking lots show the reliability of the method.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.65-70
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• 2008

Smart surveillance, is the use of automatic video analysis technologies in video surveillance applications. We present a robust object tracking method using pan-tilt-zoom camera for intelligent surveillance System, As the result of the experiment using 78 vehicle, the success rate of the tracking for moving object & non-moving object werw 97.4% and 91%. and 84.6%. the success rate o PTZ control for license plate image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.352-357
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• 2006

매년 도로와 주차공간의 확장보다 차량의 수가 빠르게 증가하여 그에 따라 불법 주차 관리의 어려움이 증가하고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 지능형 주차 관리 시스템이 필요하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 획득된 차량 영상에서 수직 에지의 특징을 이용하여 번호판 영역과 개별 코드를 추출하고, 추출된 개별 코드를 퍼지 신경망 알고리즘을 제안하여 학습 및 인식한다. 본 논문에서는 차량 번호판 영역을 검출하기 위해 프리윗 마스크를 적용하여 수직 에지를 찾고, 차량 번호판의 정보를 이용하여 잡음을 제거한 후에 차량 번호판 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 차량 번호판 영역은 반복 이진화방법을 적용하여 이진화하고, 이진화된 차량 번호판 영역에 대해서 수직 분포도와 수평 분포도를 이용하여 번호판의 개별 코드를 추출한다 추출된 개별 코드는 제안된 퍼지 신경망 알고리즘을 적용하여 인식한다. 제안된 퍼지 신경망은 입력층과 중간층간의 학습 구조로는 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하고 중간층과 출력층간의 학습 구조는 Max_Min 신경망을 적용한다. 제안된 방법의 추출 및 인식 성능을 평가하기 위하여 실제 차량 영상 150장을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 차량 번호판 인식 방법보다 효율적이고 인식 성능이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1167-1174
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• 2006

Text region detection from a natural scene is useful in many applications such as vehicle license plate recognition. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a text region extraction method using pattern histogram of character-edge maps. We create 16 kinds of edge maps from the extracted edges and then, we create the 8 kinds of edge maps which compound 16 kinds of edge maps, and have a character feature. We extract a candidate of text regions using the 8 kinds of character-edge maps. The verification about candidate of text region used pattern histogram of character-edge maps and structural features of text region. Experimental results show that the proposed method extracts a text regions composed of complex background, various font sizes and font colors effectively.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.1115-1122
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• 2018

In this paper, we analyze the performance degradation of previous 1-Bit convolutional neural network method and introduce ways to mitigate it. Previous work applies 32-Bit operation to first and last layers. But our method applies 32-Bit operation to second layer too. We also show that nonlinear activation function can be removed after binarizing inputs and weights. In order to verify the method proposed in this paper, we experiment the object detection neural network for korean license plate detection. Our method results in 96.1% accuracy, but the existing method results in 74% accuracy.