• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.113-118
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• 2013

This study will suggest methods for a license plate recognition system that is suitable for license plate identification, separation of letters, and recognition of letters in order to recognize a licence plate efficiently. The suggested algorithm had tested a recognition system that onlyused backpropagation, a recognition system that used only SVM, and the suggested recognition system in order to prove efficiency. As a result, recognition rate had increased from the minimum 7.9% to the maximum12.2% as the case of using back propagation recognized the number platefor 87.9%, the case of using SVM for 91.4%, and the suggested had 98.6% of recognition rate.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.9-17
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• 2009

License plate recognition is an active research area. but few comparative studies on license plate binarization have been conducted. Many related researchers have experienced similar trial and error for finding an effective binarization method. To reduce this trial and error, this study implemented some binarization methods and quantitatively compared the performance of the methods. The performance evaluation consists of a low level measure and a high level measure, so it can evaluate not only the quality of binarized image itself but also the usefulness of the result. The performance evaluation was separately performed with three groups of images so as to understand the properties of the binarization methods. Experimental results show that the quality of binarization is more dependent on the evenness of illumination than the intensity of illumination. The Otsu's method has acquired the most effective performance in the group of even illumination images and the Niblack's method with parameter correction has shown the best quality in the group of uneven illumination images.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.270-274
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• 2015

We suggest that HSV Color Space may be used to detect a vehicle detecting system at nighttime. It is essential that a licence plate should be extracted when a vehicle is under surveillance. To do so, a licence plate may be enlarged to certain size after the aimed vehicle is taken picture from a distance by using Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera. Either Mean-Shift or Optical Flow Algorithm is generally used for the purpose of a vehicle detection and trace, even though those algorithms have tendency to have difficulty in detection and trace a vehicle at night. By utilizing the fact that a headlight or taillight of a vehicle stands out when an input image is converted in to HSV Color Space, we are able to achieve improvement on those algorithms for the vehicle detection and trace. In this paper, we have shown that at night, the suggested method is efficient enough to detect a vehicle 93.9% from the front and 97.7% from the back.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.1083-1088
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• 2014

Recently, due to advances in both imaging technology and ICT, various types of image processing services became available and the application services of these two technologies are diversifying. Recognition of vehicle license plates is used in places where vehicle information is needed such as in parking management. However, existing systems have economic disadvantages like issuing parking tickets and attaching unnecessary equipment. In order to solve these problems, we designed and implemented automatic parking management system through recognition of vehicle license plates by using emguCV that is based on OpenCV. Additionally, we designed improved UI to handle the entire parking management situation which include information such as details of each parking vehicle, parking time and remaining parking spaces without screen movement. This improved UI is implemented with the use of WPF which is the latest technology in user program development. The emguCV used in this paper showed the most optimized performance in Intel based environment. With it, we obtained the result of within 0.5 seconds of recognition processing time and over 90% of recognition rate. Through improved UI, the manager could both simply and intuitively manage the entire system.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.85-94
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• 2021

The LPR system's trigger sensor makes problem occasionally due to the heave weight of vehicle or the obsolescence equipment. If we replace the hardware sensor to the deep-learning based software sensor in order to generate the trigger signal, LPR system maintenance would be a lot easier. In this paper we proposed the deep-learning sliding window based object detection and tracking algorithm for the LPR system's trigger signal generation. The gate passing vehicle's license plate recognition results are combined into the normal tracking algorithm to catch the position of the vehicle on the trigger line. The experimental results show that the deep learning sliding window based trigger signal generating performance was 100% for the gate passing vehicles including the 5.5% trigger signal position errors due to the minimum bounding box location errors in the vehicle detection process.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.1117-1124
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• 2011

This paper proposes a plate number extraction method which uses the information of both the colors and the arrangement of numbers in a vehicle image with complex background. In a number plate, color of the numbers is usually black or white, and numbers are arranged in a row. At first, a raw image is partitioned into the plate number candidate regions and non-interest region. The number candidate regions are thresholded in mean binarization. After eliminating the illegal candidate regions using the aspect ratio of the plate number, the plate number region is finally extracted by using the arrangement information among the numbers. To evaluate the proposed mothed, 292 images are taken in various places and at different times. The experimental results show that the rate of the proposed number regions extraction is about 89.8%, 95.5% for the plate of green and white backgrounds, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.872-879
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• 2010

This paper describes the design for radiation pattern directivity of vehicle license plate RFID tag antenna to improve the readable range. Directivity pattern of the proposed passive antenna is decided by the meander line position and the bumper size attached to the tag antenna. In order to prove the verification of the calculated directivity pattern and readable range of the proposed antenna, the tag antenna has been fabricated and measured at the anechoic chamber. It is shown that the maximum directivity gain of the measured radiation pattern of active and passive tag antenna were observed 2.32 dBi and 3.1 dBi, respectively. The maximum readable range of passive tag antenna was measured about 8.5 m at ${\pm}45^{\circ}$ beam direction on the basis of the driving car direction($0^{\circ}$ of azimuth angle).

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.4 s.107
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• pp.353-360
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• 2006

This paper presents a robust algorithm for segmenting a vehicle license plate area from a road image. We consider the features of license plates in three aspects : 1) edges due to the characters in the plate, 2) colors in the plate, and 3) geometric properties of the plate. In the preprocessing step, we compute the thresholds based on each feature to decide whether a pixel is inside a plate or not. A statistical approach is applied to the sample images to compute the thresholds. For a given road image, our algorithm binarizes it by using the thresholds. Then, we select three candidate regions to be a plate by searching the binary image with a moving window. The plate area is selected among the candidates with simple heuristics. This algorithm robustly detects the plate against the transformation or the difference of color intensity of the plate in the input image. Moreover, the preprocessing step requires only a small number of sample images for the statistical processing. The experimental results show that the algorithm has 97.8% of successful segmentation of the plate from 228 input images. Our prototype implementation shows average processing time of 0.676 seconds per image for a set of $1280{\times}960$ images, executed on a 3GHz Pentium4 PC with 512M byte memory.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.802-804
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• 2004

번호판 인식시스템의 개발에 있어서 번호판 영역의 추출단계는 시스템의 성능에 큰 영향을 미치는 단계이며 문자인식단계 이상으로 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 웹 카메라를 이용하여 얻어진 저해상도 영상으로부터 번호판 고유의 색상과 텍스쳐를 이용하여 번호판영역을 추출하고, 허프변환을 이용한 기울어진 영상의 회전을 통해 번호판 문자 영역화 및 인식에 용이한 차량번호판 영상을 추출하는 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.232-234
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• 2003

차량 번호판 인식 시스템은 차량 보급의 대중화와 그에 따라 발생되는 여러문제의 해결차원에서 활발하게 연구 개발되고 있는 분야이다. 본 논문에서는 휴대용 입력 장치로부터 획득한 차량 번호판 영상에서 차량 번호판이 가지는 특성을 이용하여 번호판을 추출한 후, 차량 번호판의 특성을 이용하여 개별 문자 영역들의 MBR(Minimum Boundary Rectangle)을 추출한다. 그리고. 불변 모멘트의 특징을 이용하여 기존의 템플릿 매칭 방식 보다 연산시간이 매우 빠르고 입력 영상내의 번호판 크기에 제약이 적온 장점을 가진 보다 향상된 차량 번호판 인식 시스템을 제안한다.