• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 저해상도 영상에서 번호판 인식 성능 향상을 위해 번호판 검출 기술과 초해상도 복원 기술의 융합 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘에서 번호판 검출 부분은 구조적 패턴 특징을 기반으로 하였으며, 초해상도 부분은 칼만 필터 기반 순차적 데이터 방법으로 구성된다. 제안한 융합 방법은 입력 영상에서 번호판 검출 여부에 따라 (i) 전체 영상에 대한 초해상도 복원 과정을 거친 후 고해상도 번호판 영상을 얻는 방법과, (ii) 번호판 검출 후 검출된 번호판 영역에 대해 초해상도 복원을 수행하여 고해상도 번호판 영상을 얻는 방법으로 나뉜다. 다양한 환경에서의 모의 실험을 통해 제안된 융합 방법의효용성을 입증하였다. 다양한 환경에서의 모의 실험을 통해 제안된 융합 방법의 효용성을 입증하였다.

• 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.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2021

Recently, with the development of IT technology, unmanned systems are being introduced in many industrial fields, and one of the most important factors for introducing unmanned systems in the automobile field is vehicle licence plate recognition(VLPR). The existing VLPR algorithms are configured to use image processing for a specific type of license plate to divide individual areas of a character within the plate to recognize each character. However, as the number of Korean vehicle license plates increases, the law is amended, there are old-fashioned license plates, new license plates, and different types of plates are used for each type of vehicle. Therefore, it is necessary to update the VLPR system every time, which incurs costs. In this paper, we use an object detection algorithm to detect character regardless of the format of the vehicle license plate, and apply a handwritten Hangul recognition(HHR) algorithm to enhance the recognition accuracy of a single Hangul character, which is called a Hangul unit. Since Hangul unit is recognized by combining initial consonant, medial vowel and final consonant, so it is possible to use other Hangul units in addition to the 40 Hangul units used for the Korean vehicle license plate.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.411-419
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• 2020

In real-world intelligent transportation systems, accuracy in vehicle license plate detection and recognition is considered quite critical. Many algorithms have been proposed for still images, but their accuracy on actual videos is not satisfactory. This stems from several problematic conditions in videos, such as vehicle motion blur, variety in viewpoints, outliers, and the lack of publicly available video datasets. In this study, we focus on these challenges and propose a license plate detection and recognition scheme for videos based on a temporal matching prior network. Specifically, to improve the robustness of detection and recognition accuracy in the presence of motion blur and outliers, forward and bidirectional matching priors between consecutive frames are properly combined with layer structures specifically designed for plate detection. We also built our own video dataset for the deep training of the proposed network. During network training, we perform data augmentation based on image rotation to increase robustness regarding the various viewpoints in videos.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.239-245
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• 2017

본 논문은 포털 사이트에서 서비스 되고 있는 로드뷰 영상에서 개인정보 보호를 위해 자동차 번호판 영역을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 로드뷰 영상에서 번호판 영역은 거리에 따라 서로 다른 특징을 갖고 있으며, 특히 원거리의 번호판 영역은 저해상도 특징으로 인해 번호판 영역을 검출하는데 어려움이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 근거리에 있는 번호판 영역은 에지 특징을 이용하고 원거리에 있는 번호판 영역은 MSER 특징을 이용하여 번호판 영역을 검출하는 기법을 제안하였다. 각각의 방법으로 검출된 영역을 번호판 후보 영역으로 선정하고, 자동차 번호판의 숫자는 구조적 특징을 갖기 때문에 이를 이용하여 최종적인 번호판 영역을 검출하였다. 실험결과, 다양한 로드뷰 영상에서 precision 75%, recall 93%, 그리고 F-Score 80%의 성능평가 결과를 얻었다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2022

Recently, research on license plate recognition, which is a core technology of an intelligent transportation system(ITS), is being actively conducted. In this paper, we propose a method to extract numbers and characters from low-quality license plate images by applying the YOLOv4 algorithm. YOLOv4 is a one-stage object detection method using convolution neural network including BACKBONE, NECK, and HEAD parts. It is a method of detecting objects in real time rather than the previous two-stage object detection method such as the faster R-CNN. In this paper, we studied a method to directly extract number and character regions from low-quality license plate images without additional edge detection and image segmentation processes. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method we experimented with 500 license plate images. In this experiment, 350 images were used for training and the remaining 150 images were used for the testing process. Computer simulations show that the mean average precision of detecting number and character regions on vehicle license plates was about 93.8%.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2016

본 논문은 한국의 차량 번호판 인식에 효과적인 방법을 제안한다. 획득한 자동차 이미지로부터 Haar-Like Feature를 이용해 대략적인 번호판 후보 영역을 찾아낸 후, 랭크 필터를 사용하여 전처리를 하고 캐니 에지 추출 (Canny Edge Detecting) 알고리즘을 이용하여 연결된 사각형을 찾아 번호판을 추출한다. 추출된 번호판의 색상 정보를 이용하여 흰색/녹색 번호판을 구분하고, 각 번호판을 OTSU 이진화와 주변 전경 픽셀 전파 알고리즘인 CLNF (CCLUF with NFPP)을 통해 문자를 제외한 잡음을 제거하고 레이블링하여 숫자 및 문자 영역을 분리한다. 분리된 문자 영역은 메쉬 방법 및 세선화 후 X-Y 투영 방법으로 특징 벡터를 추출한다. 추출된 특징 벡터는 역전파 알고리즘을 사용하여 학습된 신경망을 이용하여 문자 인식을 수행한다. 제안된 차량 번호판 인식 알고리즘의 효과적 동작은 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2509-2528
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• 2019

There are various styles of license plates for different countries and use cases that require style-specific methods. In this paper, we propose and illustrate a multi-style license plate recognition system. The proposed system performs a series of processes for license plate candidates detection, structure classification, character segmentation and character recognition, respectively. Specifically, we introduce a license plate structure classification process to identify its style that precedes character segmentation and recognition processes. We use a K-Nearest Neighbors algorithm with pre-training steps to recognize numbers and characters on multi-style license plates. To show feasibility of our multi-style license plate recognition system, we evaluate our system for multi-style license plates covering single line, double line, different backgrounds and character colors on Korean and the U.S. license plates. For the evaluation of Korean license plate recognition, we used a 50 minutes long input video that contains 138 vehicles of 6 different license plate styles, where each frame of the video is processed through a series of license plate recognition processes. From two experiments results, we show that various LP styles can be recognized under 50 ms processing time and with over 99% accuracy, and can be extended through additional learning and training steps.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2020

Recently, the license plate OCR system has been commercialized in a variety of fields and preferred utilizing low-cost embedded systems using only cameras. This system has a high recognition rate of about 98% or more for the environments such as parking lots where non-vehicle is restricted; however, the environments where non-vehicle objects are not restricted, the recognition rate is about 50% to 70%. This low performance is due to the changes in the environment by non-vehicle objects in real-time situations that occur anomaly data which is similar to the license plates. In this paper, we implement the appropriate anomaly detection based on semi-supervised learning for the license plate OCR system in the real-time environment where the appearance of non-vehicle objects is not restricted. In the experiment, we compare systems which anomaly detection is not implemented in the preceding research with the proposed system in this paper. As a result, the systems which anomaly detection is not implemented had a recognition rate of 77%; however, the systems with the semi-supervised learning based on anomaly detection had 88% of recognition rate. Using the techniques of anomaly detection based on the semi-supervised learning was effective in detecting anomaly data and it was helpful to improve the recognition rate of real-time situations.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.93-101
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 실제 도로의 다양한 상황에서도 차량 번호판을 정확하게 탐지하기 위해 차량 번호판의 후보 지역을 공간 집중 영역으로 사용하는 차량 번호판 탐지 모델을 제안하였다. 먼저, 기존의 WPOD-NET이 전처리 과정에서 검출된 차량 영역을 이용하기 때문에 넓은 탐지 후보 영역으로 인해 불필요한 노이즈가 포함되어 탐지 정확도가 낮아짐을 확인하였다. 이를 개선하기 위해 차량 번호판의 후보 지역을 공간 집중 영역으로 사용하는 차량 번호판 탐지 모델을 제안하였고, 제안한 방법이 기존 WPOD-NET보다 탐지 정확도를 어느 정도 개선하는지 분석하기 위해 GT 데이터를 기반으로 최적의 공간 집중 영역을 설정한 경우와 함께 탐지 정확도를 비교하였다. 실험에 따르면 제안된 모델이 기존 WPOD-NET에 비해 타이트한 탐지 후보 영역을 갖기 때문에 약 20% 더 높은 탐지 정확도를 보임을 확인하였다.