• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.7A
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• pp.1076-1083
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• 2000

Vehicle license plate recognition identifies vehicle as a unique, and have many applications in traffic monitoring field. In this paper, a vertical edge based algorithm to extract license plate within input gray-scale image is proposed. A size-and-shape filter based on seed-filling algorithm is applied to remove the edges that are impossible to be the vertical edges of license plate. Then the remaining edges are matched with each other according to some restricted conditions so as to locate license plate in input image. After license plate is extracted. normalized and segmented, the characters on it are recognized by template matching method. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can deal with license plates in normal shape effectively, as well as the license plates that are out of shape due to the angle of view.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07g
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• pp.2231-2233
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• 1998

본 논문은 손등의 정맥패턴을 이용한 개인식별을 위해 개발된 3가지의 알고리즘에 관해 각각의 성능을 비교한 결과를 제시한다. 세가지 방법은 각각 Unsharp Masking을 이용한 이치화 후 정맥과 손등 배경의 면적을 이용한 가중치를 적용한 원형정합 알고리즘[1]과 Kolmogorov Smirnov(KS) statistic[2]을 이용한 매칭 알고리즘을 개선한 방식, 그리고 정맥의 세선화 처리 후 분기점의 좌표, 정맥의 길이, 정맥 가지 사이의 분기각도 등의 특징벡터를 이용한 방법 등이다. 본 연구에서는 전처리 과정에 있어서, 원시영상의 혈관부위와 배경부위의 gray scale 분포가 겹친 상태에서 Unsharp Masking 필터링을 적용한 결과가 기타 다른 전처리 방식보다 우수하게 영상을 강화시킬 수 있음을 확인하였고, 가중치를 이용한 매칭방식이 다른 매칭방식보다 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07d
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• pp.2720-2722
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• 2000

This paper proposes a face detection and recognition method that combines the template matching method and the eigenface method with the neural network. In the face extraction step, the skin color information is used. Therefore, the search region is reduced. The global property of the face is achieved by the eigenface method. Face recognition is performed by a neural network that can learn the face property.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07b
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• pp.1002-1005
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• 1995

This paper presents an enhanced preprocessing and recognition algorithm for automatic vehicle license plate recognition system. The algorithm first applies horizontal gradient filter followed by thresholding and mathematical morphology operation for preprocessing. The final stage of the preprocessing is the application of connected component analysis in order to estimate the license plate region. For the recognition of the serial numbers of the plates, we developed a very effective algorithm. We call this zerocrossing count algorithm. This paper presents a detail of this algorithm and compare the performance with a template matching algorithm which utilizes correlation coefficient.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.847-850
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• 2000

This paper proposes an image compressing and template matching algorithm for face image using GHA (Generalized Hebbian Algorithm). GHA is a part of PCA (Principal Component Analysis), that has single-layer perceptrons and operates and self-organizing performance. We used this algorithm for feature extraction of face shape, and our simulations verify the high performance for the proposed method. The shape for face in the fact that the eigenvector of face image can be efficiently represented as a coefficient that can be acquired by a set of basis is to compress data of image. From the simulation results, the mean PSNR performance is 24.08[dB] at 0.047bpp, and reconstruction experiment shows that good reconstruction capacity for an image that not joins at leaning.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.19-25
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• 2016

This paper is to recognize and play tab chords from guitar musical sheets. The musical chord area of an input image is segmented by changing the image in saturation and applying the Grabcut algorithm. Based on a template matching, our approach detects tab starting sections on a segmented musical area. The virtual block method is introduced to search blanks over chord lines and extract tab fret segments, which doesn't cause the computation loss to remove tab lines. In the experimental tests, the prototype based classification outperforms Bayesian method and the nearest neighbor rule with the whole set of training data and its performance is similar to that of the support vector machine. The experimental result shows that the prediction rate is about 99.0% and the number of selected prototypes is below 3.0%.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.3155-3163
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• 2000

In the recognitionsystem of car license plate, it is very important to extract the character from the license plate and recognize the extrated character. In this paper, I use the adaptive algorithm to recognize the charactor of licensse plate image. The adaptive algorithm is compounded of thinning algorithm template matching,algarthm, vector algorithm and so on. The adaptive algorithm was used to recognize the character from license image. In the result of expenment, character recognition is about up to 90% with the adaptive algorithm for the character region.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.1410-1417
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose the method of extracting the caption regions from news video and the method of recognizing the captions that can be used mainly for content-based indexing and retrieving the MPEG-2 compressed news for NOD(News On Demand). The proposed method can reduce the searching time on detecting caption frames with minimum MPEG-2 decoding, and effectively eliminate the noise in caption regions by deliberately devised preprocessing. Because the kind of fonts that are used for captions is not various in the news video, an enhanced template matching method is used for recognizing characters. We could obtain good recognition result in the experiment of sports news video by the proposed methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.751-754
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 획득한 차량 영상에서, 차량 번호판의 후보영역을 동적으로 할당하여 번호판을 추출하고, 이중 템플릿 매칭을 이용하여 인식하는 방법을 제안하였다. 차량 번호판 영역은 다른 영역에 비해 영상의 밀도값이 높다는 것을 근거로, 후보영역을 투영하여 추출된 영상의 밀도값과 기준밀도값을 비교하여 차이가 임계값 이하를 만족한 때 차량 번호판 영역으로 추출하고 만족하지 않을 때는 다음 후보영역을 투영하여 차량 번호판 영역을 추출하였다. 추출된 번호판 영역에서 문자와 숫자영역으로 분할된 입럭패턴과 표준패턴을 흑화소로 1차 매칭하고, 이 중 유사도가 높은 표준패턴과 다시 백화소로 2차 매칭하는 이중 템플릿 매칭으로 인식하였다.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.397-406
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• 1998

The purpose of this research is to develop an integrated quality inspection system using machine vision technology in the automotive engine assembly process. The system makes it possible for the inspected data to be entered directly from the machine vision system into the developed system without the need for intermediate operations. Such direct entry enables prompt corrective actions against process problems. An IVP-150 machine vision board is installed an the PC for image processing, and a template matching technology is implemented to precisely verify quality factors. The developed system is successfully installed in a manufacturing process, and it showed robustness to the problems of noise, distortion, and orientation.