• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.3D
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• pp.349-352
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• 2006

To cope with traffic congestion, traffic accidents and lack of parking facilities, caused by dramatic increase in total vehicle number, vigorous researches on managing vehicles efficiently are done, both domestically and internationally. The vehicle license plate recognition makes effective management of traffic possible, with its wide application in many fields, covering from speed enforcement, collecting toll, stolen vehicle detection to parking management. The vehicle license plate recognition system causes high cost for collecting training data. Many researches are done by using the virtual sample method, which can be effective for utilizing limited number of training data by generating virtual sample. This paper investigates techniques to improve the performance of vehicle license plate recognition by using the training data's annexation. Also, popular methods for virtual sample creation used for text recognition algorithm are analyzed and their effectiveness is verified.

• 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.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.597-604
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• 2009

For the improvement of license plate recognition system, correct extraction of a license plate region as well as character recognition is important. In this paper, with the analysis and classification of the error patterns in the process of plate region extraction, we tried to improve the extraction of the region using HoG(histogram of gradient) features and Adaboost. The results show that the HoG feature is robust to the noise and various types of the plates, and also is very effective to extract the region failed before.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.78-84
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• 2016

This paper presents and implements a vehicle speed measurement system using a license plate recognition system and a stereo camera. Using the feature points of the license plate recognition system, the disparity information is extracted and then the distance to the feature points is calculated by using the disparity information. In this paper, a vehicle speed is measured using the adjacent distances from consecutive stereo images and the corresponding time of the distances. Actual vehicle speed is also measured using the reference measurement equipment (tape switch based system) in order to test the accuracy of the proposed speed measurement system. The implemented stereo based speed measurement system shows appropriate result within specification both in the daytime and nighttime experiments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.113-123
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• 2012

Recently, various attempts have been made to apply Intelligent Transportation System under various environments and conditions. Consequently, an accurate license plate recognition regardless of vehicle location and viewing angle is required. In this paper, we propose a novel license plate recognition system which exploits a) the format of license plates to remove false candidates of license plates and to extract characters in license plates and b) the characteristics of Hangul for accurate character recognition. In order to eliminate false candidates of license plates, the proposed method first aligns the candidates of license plates horizontally, and compares the position and the shape of objects in each candidate with the prior information of license plates provided by Korean Ministry of Construction & Transportation. The prior information such as aspect ratio, background color, projection image is also used to extract characters in license plates accurately applying an improved local binarization considering luminance variation of license plates. In case of recognizing Hangul in license plates, they are initially grouped according to their shape similarity. Then a super-class method, a hierarchical analysis based on key feature points is applied to recognize Hangul accurately. The proposed method was verified with high recognition rate regardless of background image, which eventually proves that the proposed LPR system has high performance regardless of the vehicle location or viewing angle.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.727-733
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• 2004

In the car license plate recognition system, it is very important to extract the part of the license plate from the car image. In this paper, I use ACL algorithm to extract the license plate image from car image. The ACL algorithm is used to color and luminance information, either. Therefore in this paper, suggested algorithm is called ACL algorithm The ACL algorithm uses color, luminance information and the rate of license plate information Each of these information are used to exact area of license plate. The result of experiment to extract the car license plate with ACL algorithm is 97% extraction rate. The result of experiment with ACL algorithm for the character region, character recognition is 92% extraction rate.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.376-382
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• 2010

We propose a novel method to precisely detect car license plates by locating main characters, which are printed with large font size. The regions of the main characters are directly detected without detecting the plate region boundaries, so that license regions can be detected more precisely than by other existing methods. To generate a binary image, multiple thresholds are applied, and segmented regions are selected from multiple binarized images by a criterion of size and compactness. We do not employ any character matching methods, so that many candidates for main character groups are detected; thus, we use a neural network to reject non-main character groups from the candidates. The relation of the character regions and the intensity statistics are used as the input to the neural network for classification. The detection performance has been investigated on real images captured under various illumination conditions for 1000 vehicles. 980 plates were correctly detected, and almost all non-detected plates were so stained that their characters could not be isolated for character recognition. In addition, the processing time is fast enough for a commercial automatic license plate recognition system. Therefore, the proposed method can be used for recognition systems with high performance and fast processing.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.29-35
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• 2009

In this paper by using the image taken from the rear of the vehicle to effectively extract the license plate and how to recognize the characters appearing in the offer. How to existing research on the entire video by following the pre-edge (edge) images to obtain yijinhwa. Qualified heopeu in a binary image (Hough) to convert the horizontal and vertical lines to obtain, using the characteristics of the plates to extract the license plate area. The problem with this method, the processing time is so difficult to handle real-time status of irregular points, and visual contrast with yagangwan border does not appear in the plates to extract the license plate area is that it is not. In addition, the rear of the vehicle license plate area from images taken using the characteristics of the plates myeongamgap changes sutjapok in the area, background area and the number number area of the region confirmed the contrast of the car and identified the number and the number of 42 of distance to extract the license plate area. How to research, the existing damage to the border of the plate to fail to extract the license plate area, a matter of hours to resolve problems in real-time, practical application is processed. Chapter 100 as the results of the experiment the sample video image in a car that far experiment results automatically read license plates have been able to extract the license plate and failing to represent 13% of images, character recognition result of failing to represent the image was 0.4%

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.173-179
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• 2018

With the recent increase in the number of cars and the lack of parking spaces, the number of parking businesses has increased. the parking management has become an essential element in parking business, and the parking management's company becomes an increasingly popular opportunity. However, as competition grows as more and more and companies increase in number, efforts are being made to create new services, gain technological excellence, or reduce costs through current system improvements. In this paper, we developed a parking management system using cloud based LPR(License Plate Recognition) service for effective parking. Structural improvements in the proposed system reduce costs, simplify installation, and respond quickly to failures and updates.

• 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.