• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.652-655
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• 2012

With the development of IT and digital camera technology, diverse applications of image processing services are becoming available. In this paper, in order to ultimately automate parking management system, we designed and implemented a system for recognizing vehicle license plates that show vehicles' unique numbers by using EmguCV which shows optimized performance on Intel-based environment. We also implemented UI for administrators to easily manage the entire system by utilizing.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.57-74
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• 2022

Recently, artificial intelligence parking control systems have increased the recognition rate of vehicle license plates using deep learning, but there is a problem that they cannot determine vehicles with fake license plates. Despite these security problems, several institutions have been using the existing system so far. For example, in an experiment using a counterfeit license plate, there are cases of successful entry into major government agencies. This paper proposes an improved system over the existing artificial intelligence parking control system to prevent vehicles with such fake license plates from entering. The proposed method is to use the degree of matching of the front feature points of the vehicle as a passing criterion using the ORB algorithm that extracts information on feature points characterized by an image, just as the existing system uses the matching of vehicle license plates as a passing criterion. In addition, a procedure for checking whether a vehicle exists inside was included in the proposed system to prevent the entry of the same type of vehicle with a fake license plate. As a result of the experiment, it showed the improved performance in identifying vehicles with fake license plates compared to the existing system. These results confirmed that the methods proposed in this paper could be applied to the existing parking control system while taking the flow of the original artificial intelligence parking control system to prevent vehicles with fake license plates from entering.

• 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 the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.313-319
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a novel method to extract an area of car licence plate and codes of vehicle number from a photographed car image using features on vertical edges and a new Fuzzy neural network algorithm to recognize extracted codes. Prewitt mask is used in searching for vertical edges for detection of an area of vehicle number plate and feature information of vehicle number palate is used to eliminate image noises and extract the plate area and individual codes of vehicle number. Finally, for recognition of extracted codes, we use the proposed Fuzzy neural network algorithm, in which FCM is used as the learning structure between input and middle layers and Max_Min neural network is used as the learning structure within inhibition and output layers. Through a variety of experiments using real 150 images of vehicle, we showed that the proposed method is more efficient than others.

• 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.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.346-351
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 차량 번호판에서 추출된 문자영역의 DCT(Digital Cosine Transform) 계수와 LVQ (Learning Vector Quantization) 신경회로망을 이용하여 차량 번호판 인식 시스템을 구성하였다. 입력된 차량영상의 RGB 칼라정보를 이용하여 번호판 영역을 추출하고 추출된 번호판의 히스토그램과 문자의 상대적 위치정보를 병합하여 문자영역을 추출하였다. 이렇게 추출된 문자영역의 명암도 영상에 DCT를 적용하여 얻은 특징 벡터는 LVQ 신경회로망의 입력으로 사용되어 인식 과정을 수행한다. 제안된 시스템의 검증을 위하여 다양한 환경에서 촬영된 109대의 자가용 차량영상에 대하여 실험하여 상대적으로 높은 번호판 영역 추출율과 인식률을 보였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.595-604
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• 2013

Currently, registered number of imported vehicles is increasing rapidly over the years. Accordingly, environment improvements of vehicle maintenance company for maintenance of luxury vehicle such as imported vehicle are continuously being made. In this paper, we propose a key frame extraction method based on HSV color model for smart vehicle management system implementation to offer for customer reliability of maintenance vehicle. After automatically recognize the license plates of the vehicle using vehicle license plate recognition system when the vehicle come in the car center, we check the repair history and request of the vehicle based on it. We implement mobile services which provide extracted key frame images to the user after extract key frames from vehicle repair video. In addition, we verify the superiority of key frame extraction method by applying a smart vehicle management system. Finally, we convert the RGB color to HSV color to improve the performance of proposed key frame extraction scheme. As a result, we confirmed that our scheme is more excellence about 30% in terms of recall than RGB color model from the performance evaluations.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.185-197
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• 2022

Recently, deep learning networks with high performance for object recognition are emerging. In the case of object recognition using deep learning, it is important to build a training data set to improve performance. To build a data set, we need to collect and label the images. This process requires a lot of time and manpower. For this reason, open data sets are used. However, there are objects that do not have large open data sets. One of them is data required for license plate detection and recognition. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an artificial license plate generator system that can create large data sets by minimizing images. In addition, the detection rate according to the artificial license plate arrangement structure was analyzed. As a result of the analysis, the best layout structure was FVC_III and B, and the most suitable network was D2Det. Although the artificial data set performance was 2-3% lower than that of the actual data set, the time to build the artificial data was about 11 times faster than the time to build the actual data set, proving that it is a time-efficient data set building system.