• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.7
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• pp.1970-1979
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• 1999

This paper proposes an AVI system which recognizes the license plate and the driver's face simultaneously using passive AVI techniques. For this, firstly, the pro-processing algorithm independent of the environment is proposed and region extraction of the car number plate and the driver's face is described. Secondly, characters are separated and recognition parameters are extracted from target regions. Thirdly, template matching of car number plate is performed and the fuzzy relation matrix of driver face is made for the final recognition processes. The merits of the proposed system are following : Pre-processing is accomplished regardless of the environment. The application areas of conventional AVI system can be expanded in the content that the driver's face is also recognized in the proposed system compared with only the number plast is recognized in the existing systems.

• 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 Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.733-735
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• 2018

최근의 차량 주차관리 시설, 출입통제가 필요한 장소 그리고 도로 방범카메라를 통한 단속 등 다양한 곳에서 차량 번호판 자동 인식 기술들이 활용되고 있다. 하지만 현재 사용되고 있는 LPR(License Plate Recognition) 시스템에는 많은 장비와 비용이 들어간다는 큰 단점이 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 하나의 컴퓨터와 최소의 카메라를 가지고 할 수 있는 기계학습을 통한 영상처리를 제안하려 한다. 먼저 딥러닝 프레임워크 중 하나인 YOLO(You Only Look Once) [4]를 활용하여 자동차의 번호판 부분의 영역을 검출하고 Grayscale를 통해 햇빛 또는 조명 등의 영향을 감소시켜 번호판의 특징을 보존시킨다. 전처리 작업이 끝난 후 번호판에서 숫자를 인식 하는 부분에서는 k-NN(k-Nearest Neighbor) 알고리즘을 사용하였으며 한글 문자 인식부분은 Template Matching을 이용하였다. 제안한 알고리즘을 사용하여 기존 LPR 시스템에서 획득한 차량이미지를 대상으로 시뮬레이션 한 결과 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있어 향후 연구 방향의 시스템 확장성의 가능성을 발견할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.5 s.83
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• pp.135-146
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• 2005

Up to now studies on the fusion of travel time from various detectors have been conducted based on the variance raito of the intermittent data mainly collected by GPS or probe vehicles. The fusion model based on the variance ratio of intermittent data is not suitable for the license plate recognition AVIs which can deal with vast amount of data. This study was carried out to develop the fusion model based on travel time acquired from the license plate recognition AVIs and the point detectors. In order to fuse travel time acquired from the point detectors and the license plate recognition AVIs, the optimized fusion model and the proportional fusion model were developed in this study. As a result of verification, the optimized fusion model showed the superior estimation performance. The optimized fusion model is the dynamic fusion ratio estimation model on real time base, which calculates fusion weights based on real time historic data and applies them to the current time period. The results of this study are expected to be used effectively for National Highway Traffic Management System to provide traffic information in the future. However, there should be further studies on the Proper distance for the establishment of the AVIs and the license plate matching rate according to the lanes for AVIs to be established.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.3683-3693
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• 1999

Most recognition methods of car licence plate have difficulties concerning plate recognition rates and system stability in that restricted car images are used and good image capture environment is required. To overcome these difficulties, I proposed a new recognition method of car licence plates, in which both intensity variation and color information are used. For a captured car image, multiple candidate plate-bands are extracted based on the number of intensity variation. To have an equal performance on abnormally dark and bright Images. plate lightness is calculated and adjusted based on the brightness of plate background. Candidate plate regions are extracted using contour following on plate color pixels in oath plate band. A candidate region is decided as a real plate region after extracting character regions and then recognizing them. I recognize characters using template matching since total number of possible characters is small and they art machine printed. To show the efficiency of the proposed method, I tested it on 200 car images and found that the method shows good performance.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.987-994
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• 2018

In this paper, an automatic transmission system of traffic information is presented. Here, a traffic event is defined as an obstacle to an emergency vehicle such as an ambulance or a fire truck. When a traffic event is detected from a video recorded by a black box installed in a vehicle, the implemented system automatically transmits a proof image and corresponding information to the control center through an e-mail. For this purpose, we realize an algorithm of identifying the numbers and a character from the license plate, and an algorithm for determining the occurrence of a traffic event. To report the event, a function for automatic transmission of the text and image files through e-mail and file transfer protocol (FTP) is also appended. Therefore, if the traffic event is extended and applied to the presented system, it will be possible to establish a convenient reporting system for the violation of various traffic regulations. In addition, it will contribute to significantly reduce the number of traffic violations against the regulations.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.11
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• pp.87-104
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• 2015

Currently the IoT (Internet of Things) environments and related technologies are being developed rapidly through the networks for connecting many intelligent objects. The IoT is providing artificial intelligent services combined with context recognition based knowledge and communication methods between human and objects and objects to objects. With the help of IoT technology, many research works are being developed using the C-ITS (Cooperative Intelligent Transport System) which uses road infrastructure and traveling vehicles as traffic control infrastructures and resources for improving and increasing driver's convenience and safety through two way communication such as bus-only lane and license plate recognition and road accidents, works ahead reports, which are eventually for advancing traffic effectiveness. In this paper, a system for deciding whether the traveling vehicle is possible or not to drive on bus-only lane in highway is researched using the lane and number plate recognition on the road in C-ITS traffic infrastructure environments. The number plates of vehicles on the straight ahead and sides are identified after the location of bus-only lane is discovered through the lane recognition method. Research results and experimental outcomes are presented which are supposed to be used by traffic management infrastructure and controlling system in future.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.164-170
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• 2008

This research was verified detection way of intercept vehicles and performance evaluation after system installation using image detector as detection way of ground installation. By image recognition algorithm was on the trace of moving orbit of violation vehicles for detection way of intercept vehicles. When moving orbit is located special site, utilized geometric image calibration and DC-notch filter. These are cognitive system of license plate by making signal. Then, Bright Evidence Detection and Dark Evidence Detection were applied to after mixing. It is applied to way of Backward tracking for detection way of intercept vehicles. After the field evaluation of developed system, it should be analyzed the more high than recognition rate of minimum standards 80%. It should rise in the estimation of the site applicability is highly from now.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.174-177
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• 2000

자동차 번호판 인식 시스템을 구현하기 위해서는 영상에서 번호판을 추출하는 영역과 추출된 번호판에서 각 문자의 숫자를 추출하는 영역, 마지막으로 이를 인식하는 영역으로 나누어진다. 본 논문에서는 번호판 영역이 다른 영역보다 녹색의 밀집도가 높다는 특징을 이용하여 이미지에서 번호판을 추출하고, 개선된 퍼지 ART학습 알고리즘으로 자동차 번호판 인식에 적용한다. 실험결과에서는 여러 차량에 대해 인식율이 우수한 것을 보인다.

• 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.