• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.93-99
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• 2001

This paper presents the automatic recognition system for car number plate. In our country, two types of number plate pattern is used. The one is old type of number plate, the other is new type of number plate. To recognize both new and old type number plates, the system must have flexibility. Therefore, in this paper, automatic recognition system is developed by use of the neural network for good adaptation, good generalization, and modulation. And because the number plate is made of three codes, the multi neural network consists of three networks. Neural network is teamed by GDR(Generalized Delta learning Rule) and it is verified the effectiveness of the method through experimental results.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2022

With the recent development of intelligent transportation systems, car license plate recognition systems are being used in various fields. Such systems need to guarantee real-time performance to recognize the license plate of a driving car. Also, they should keep a high recognition rate even in problematic situations such as small license plates in low-resolution and unclear image due to distortion. In this paper, we propose a real-time car license plate recognition system that improved processing speed using object detection algorithm based on anchor-free method and text recognition algorithm based on Convolutional Neural Network(CNN). In addition, we used Spatial Transformer Network to increase the recognition rate on the low resolution or distorted images. We confirm that the proposed system is faster than previously existing car license plate recognition systems and maintains a high recognition rate in a variety of environment and quality images because the proposed system's recognition rate is 93.769% and the processing speed per image is about 0.006 seconds.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.147-158
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• 2005

Day after day the information of vehicle under the complex traffic environments is greatly required not only for traffic flow but also for vehicle disclosure of traffic violation, Vehicle information can be obtained from a recognition of vehicle license plate, This paper proposes a new vehicle plate recognition mechanism that uses moving style vehicle-loaded camera, The method is a real-time processing system using multi-step image processing and recognition process that recognizes general vehicles and special purpose vehicles, The experimental results of real environmental image and recognition using the proposed method are shown.

• 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.9 no.1
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• pp.160-164
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• 2005

The process of recognizing a vehicle involves detection of the vehicle, recognition of the vehicle model, and identification of the vehicle. The process of vehicle identification involves identification of the vehicle itself, such as by recognition of the license plate on the vehicle. In this paper the method involves the use of a beam splitter to divide incident rays into two directions, a transmitted beam and a reflected beam of different light intensities, and synthesizing two captured images using CCD devices from each beam, thus producing fluctuation-free images of a wide dynamic range even when the subject is moving. A prototype license plate recognition system was also developed using the experimental sensing device. The system achieved a 98.7% recognition rate on 466 images of moving vehicles, which demonstrates its effectiveness as a license plate recognition system.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.9-16
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• 2012

The research of vehicle license plate recognition has been widely studied for the smart city project. The license plate recognition can be hard due to the geometric distortion and the image quality degradation in case of capturing the driving car image at CCTV without trigger signal on the road. In this paper, the high performance vehicle license plate recognition system using edge-based segment image is introduced which is robust in the geometric distortion and the image quality degradation according to non-trigger signal. The experimental results of the proposed real time license plate recognition algorithm which is implemented at the CCTV on the road show that the plate detection rate was 97.5% and the overall character recognition rate of the detected plates was 99.3% in a day average 1,535 vehicles for a week operation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.423-426
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• 1995

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 af 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 similarity method is used to recognize the numbers on the plates.

• 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.