• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.444-447
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed the recognition system of car license plates to mitigate traffic problems. The processing sequence of the proposed algorithm is as follows. At first, a license plate segment is extracted from an acquired car image using morphological features and color information, and noises are eliminated from the extracted license plate segment using line scan algorithm and Grassfire algorithm, and then individual codes are extracted from the license plate segment using edge tracking algorithm. Finally the extracted individual codes are recognized by an FCM algorithm. In order to evaluate performance of segment extraction and code recognition of the proposed method, we used 100 car images for experiment. In the results, we could verify the proposed method is more effective and recognition performance is improved in comparison with conventional car license plate recognition methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.408-410
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• 2014

In this paper a license plate area extraction of labeling the vehicle images is proposed. Studies on license plate recognition systems have largely been conducted and there is a tendency of increasing license plate recognition rates. In this paper a license plate region is extracted from an image labeling for the region of interest and research on technology for labeling sample image using the Otsu algorithm to binary.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.4D
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• pp.549-551
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• 2006

Vehicle License Plate Recognition System reads information from vehicles license plate using image detection devices. Of many applications provided by Vehicle License Plate Recognition System, some, such as speed enforcing system, can be problematic when the system incorrectly scans letters or numbers from a vehicle's license plate. Using Cautious Classifier avoids such problems by discarding the scanned information when the confidence level is doubted to be low. This study develops the License Plate Recognition System using Cautious Classifier and investigates effectiveness of applying the Weighted Instance Method to improve the performance of Cautious Classifier.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.747-753
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• 2018

In the license-plate recognition systems for automobile black Image, the license-plate image frequently has a shadow due to outdoor environments which are frequently changing. Such a shadow makes unpredictable errors in the segmentation process of individual characters and numbers of the license plate image, and reduces the overall recognition rate. In this paper, to improve the recognition rate in these circumstance, a license-plate image binarization algorithm is proposed removing the shadow effectively. The propose algorithm splits the license-plate image into the regions with the shadow and without. To find out the boundary of two regions, the algorithm estimates the curve for shadow boundary using the least-squares method. The simulation is performed for the license-plate image having its shadow, and the results show much higher recognition rate than the previous algorithm.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.274-280
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• 2011

The implementation of the recognition system of a vehicle license plate and the Linux OS environment which is built in SoC Embedded system and its test result are presented in this paper. In order to recognize a vehicle license plate, each character has to be extracted from the whole image of a license plate and the extracted image is revised for the template matching. Labeling technique and numerical features are used to detect the vehicle license plate. Each character in the license plate has coordinates. The extracted image is revised by comparison of the numerical coordinates and recognized through template matching method. The experimental results show that the license plate detection rate is 96%, and a character recognition rate is 73%, and a number recognition rate is 97% for about 300 license plate images. The average time of the recognition in the embedded board is 0.66 sec.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.15-23
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• 2016

This paper proposes an effective algorithm of Korean license plate recognition. By applying Haar-like feature and Canny edge detection on a captured vehicle image, it is possible to find a connected rectangular, which is a strong candidate for license plate. The color information of license plate separates plates into white and green. Then, OTSU binary image processing and foreground neighbor pixel propagation algorithm CLNF will be applied to each license plates to reduce noise except numbers and letters. Finally, through labeling, numbers and letters will be extracted from the license plate. Letter and number regions, separated from the plate, pass through mesh method and thinning process for extracting feature vectors by X-Y projection method. The extracted feature vectors are classified using neural networks trained by backpropagation algorithm to execute final recognition process. The experiment results show that the proposed license plate recognition algorithm works effectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1256-1259
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• 2002

In this paper, we have proposed license plate recognition system for multi-national vehicle license plate using geometric features along with hybrid and seven segment pattern vectors. In the proposed system, we suggested to find horizontal and vertical relation after going through preparation process with inputted real-time license plate image of Korea and Japan, and then to classify license plate with using characteristic and geometric information of license plates. It classifies the extracted license plate images into letters and numbers, such as local name, local number, classification character and license consecutive numbers, and recognize license plate of Korea and Japan by applying hybrid and seven segments pattern vectors to classified letter and number region. License plate extraction step of the proposed system uses width and length information along with relative rate of Korean and Japanese license plate. Moreover, it exactly segmentation by letters with using each letter and number position information within license plate region, and recognizes Korean and Japanese license plates by applying hybrid and seven segment pattern vectors, containing characteristics related to letter size and movement within segmented letter area. As the result of testing the proposed system in real experiment, it recognized regardless of external lighting conditions as well as classifying license plates by nations, Korea and Japan. We have developed a system, recognizing regardless of inputted structural character of vehicle licenses and external environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.648-651
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose the recognition system of a license plate using SOM algorithm. The recognition of license plate was investigated by means of the SOM algorithm. The morphological information of horizontal and vertical edges was used to extract a plate region from a car image. In addition, the 4-direction contour tracking algorithm was applied to extract the specific area, which includes characters from an extracted plate area. Therefore, we proposed how to extract license plate region using morphological information and how to recognize the character string using SOM algorithm. In this paper, 50 car images were tested. The extraction rate obtained by the proposed extraction method showed better results than that from the color information of RGB and HSI, respectively. And the license plate recognition using SOM algorithm was very efficient.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.92-98
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• 2020

This paper proposes a vehicle license plate recognition system using light weight deep learning models without high-end server. The proposed license plate recognition system consists of 3 steps: [license plate detection]-[character area segmentation]-[character recognition]. SSD-Mobilenet was used for license plate detection, ResNet with localization was used for character area segmentation, ResNet was used for character recognition. Experiemnts using Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG Q9, accuracy showed 85.3% accuracy and around 1.1 second running time.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.776-788
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• 2020

In this paper, a vehicle type recognition system using deep learning and a license plate recognition system are proposed. In the existing system, the number plate area extraction through image processing and the character recognition method using DNN were used. These systems have the problem of declining recognition rates as the environment changes. Therefore, the proposed system used the one-stage object detection method YOLO v3, focusing on real-time detection and decreasing accuracy due to environmental changes, enabling real-time vehicle type and license plate character recognition with one RGB camera. Training data consists of actual data for vehicle type recognition and license plate area detection, and synthetic data for license plate character recognition. The accuracy of each module was 96.39% for detection of car model, 99.94% for detection of license plates, and 79.06% for recognition of license plates. In addition, accuracy was measured using YOLO v3 tiny, a lightweight network of YOLO v3.