• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.1
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• pp.142-149
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• 2016

This paper proposes a method to detect LP(License Plate) of vehicles in indoor and outdoor parking lots. In restricted environment, there are many conventional methods for detecting LP. But, it is difficult to detect LP in natural and complex scenes with background clutters because several patterns similar with text or LP always exist in complicated backgrounds. To verify the performance of LP text detection in natural images, we apply MB-LGP feature by combining with ensemble machine learning algorithm in purpose of selecting optimal features of small number in huge pool. The feature selection is performed by adaptive boosting algorithm that shows great performance in minimum false positive detection ratio and in computing time when combined with cascade approach. MSER is used to provide initial text regions of vehicle LP. Throughout the experiment using real images, the proposed method functions robustly extracting LP in natural scene as well as the controlled environment.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.105-109
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• 2008

In the current study, the authors propose a method for extracting license plate regions by means of a neural network trained to output the plate.s center of gravity. The method is shown to be effective. Since the learning pattern presentation positions are defined by random numbers, a different pattern is submitted to the neural network for learning each time, which enables it to form a neural network with high universality of coverage. The article discusses issues of the optimal learning surface for a license plate covered by the learning pattern, the effect of suppression learning of the number and headlight sections, as well as the effect of learning pattern enlargement/reduction and of concentration value conversion. Results of evaluation tests based on pictures of 595 vehicles taken at an underground parking garage demonstrated detection rates of 98.5%.

• 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.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.6-17
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• 2013

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.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.103-113
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• 2019

License plate recognition camera is dedicated device designed for acquiring images of the target vehicle for recognizing letters and numbers in a license plate. Mostly, it is used as a part of the system combined with server and image analysis module rather than as a single use. However, building a system for vehicle license plate recognition is costly because it is required to construct a facility with a server providing the management and analysis of the captured images and an image analysis module providing the extraction of numbers and characters and recognition of the vehicle's plate. In this study, we would like to develop an embedded type convergent camera (Edge Base) which can expand the function of the camera to not only the license plate recognition but also the security CCTV function together and to perform two functions within the camera. This embedded type convergence camera equipped with a high resolution 4K IP camera for clear image acquisition and fast data transmission extracted license plate area by applying YOLO, a deep learning software for multi object recognition based on open source neural network algorithm and detected number and characters of the plate and verified the detection accuracy and recognition accuracy and confirmed that this camera can perform CCTV security function and vehicle number plate recognition function successfully.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.2
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• pp.195-200
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 실제 입력 차량 영상으로부터 명암도 변화 정보와 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 차량 번호판을 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 일반적으로 차량 영상에서는 번호판 영역에서 문자와 배경이 뚜렷하게 구별되고, 일정한 명암도 변화를 가지면서 번호판 이외의 다른 영역 보다 빌집도가 높은 특성이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 성질을 이용하여 먼저 명암도 변화값을 사용하여 번호판을 추출하도록 하였으며 영상 입력 과정에서 외부 환경에 따라 차량 영상이 어둡거나 밝게 입력될 경우에도 동일한 추출 성능을 얻기 위하여 밝기 보정 과정을 수행하였다. 또한 추출된 번호판 영역으로부터 입력 문자의 크기, 이동 및 회전에 무관한 특성 추출을 위해 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 차량 번호를 인식하도록 하였다. 제안한 알고리즘을 적용한 결과 번호판 추출이 가능하였으며 기존의 방법에 비해 계산 속도가 향상되어 실시간 처리의 가능성을 제시하였다.

• 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.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.797-800
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• 2003

In the current study, the authors propose a method for extracting license plate regions by means of a neural network trained to output the plates center of gravity. The method is shown to be effective. Since the learning pattern presentation positions are defined by random numbers, a different pattern is submitted to the neural network for learning each time, which enables it to form a neural network with high universality of coverage. The article discusses issues of the optimal learning surface for a license plate revered by the learning pattern, the effort of suppression learning of the number and headlight sections, as well as the effect of learning pattern enlargement/reduction and of concentration value conversion. Results of evaluation tests based on pictures of 595 vehicles taken at an underground parking garage demonstrated detection rates of 98.5%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.99-107
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• 2009

This paper presents an enhanced hybrid model based on Independent Component Analysis(ICA) in order to features of numeric characters in license plates. ICA which is used only in high dimensional statistical features doesn't consider statistical features in low dimension and correlation between numeric characters. To overcome the drawbacks of ICA, we propose an improved ICA with the hybrid model using both Principle Component Analysis(PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis(LDA). Experiment results show that the proposed model has a superior performance in feature extraction and recognition compared with ICA only as well as other hybrid models.