• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2001

버스 전용차선 번호판 인식 시스템은 차량 검출 및 영상 획득 , 번호판 영역 추출 개별문자 추출, 문자인식 및 데이터 전송의 5가지 핵심부분으로 구성된다. 이 중에서도 번호판 추출의 정확성은 전체 시스템 인식률에 지대한 영향을 줄 수 있는 부분이며 다양한 날씨 및 주위 환경 변화에서도 정확한 추출을 요구한다. 본 논문에서는 검출 시간의 단축을 위해 획득된 영상을 피라미드 구조로 만든 후 번호판 템플릿의 영역을 이진화하고 번호판의 분포를 가지는 후보영역을 추출한다. 추출된 후보 영역 중 번호판 문자 분포의 특성을 이용한 검증과정을 통해 최종영역을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법을 버스 전용차선 도로에서 획득한 영상에 적용한 결과 다양한 날씨와 주위 환경변화에서도 번호판 영역이 정확이 추출됨을 확인하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.1947-1954
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• 2009

카메라에 의해 획득되는 주행 차량의 번호판 영상은 많은 변화와 잡음을 포함할 뿐만 아니라 번호판 영상내의 문자 영상은 매우 작은 크기를 가지게 된다. 이러한 열악한 조건으로 대표되는 번호판 영상의 인식 효율을 높이기 위해 번호판 영상의 인식에 적합한 영상 정제와 특징 추출 방법을 다양한 실험에 의해 결정하였으며, 서로 대비되는 특징을 사용하여 인식 성능을 상호 보완할 수 있는 인식기쌍을 설계하였다. 전체 번호판의 인식을 위해 다수의 인식기쌍으로 구성된 복합인식기를 구축하여 개별 인식 결과, 신뢰도, 상호 연관성, 저평가 요소의 처리 등을 분석하여 최종 인식하였다. 제안된 방법의 인식 효율을 도로 현장에서 취득된 번호판 영상을 대상으로 검증하였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.121-126
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• 2022

The number of vehicles has increased exponentially over the past 20 years due to technological advancements. It is becoming almost impossible to manually control and manage the traffic in a city like Karachi. Without license plate recognition, traffic management is impossible. The Framework for License Plate Detection & Recognition to overcome these issues is proposed. License Plate Detection & Recognition is primarily performed in two steps. The first step is to accurately detect the license plate in the given image, and the second step is to successfully read and recognize each character of that license plate. Some of the most common algorithms used in the past are based on colour, texture, edge-detection and template matching. Nowadays, many researchers are proposing methods based on deep learning. This research proposes a framework for License Plate Detection & Recognition using a custom YOLOv5 Object Detector, image segmentation techniques, and Tesseract's optical character recognition OCR. The accuracy of this framework is 0.89.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1256-1259
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• 2002

In this paper, we have proposed license plate recognition system for multi-national vehicle license plate using geometric features along with hybrid and seven segment pattern vectors. In the proposed system, we suggested to find horizontal and vertical relation after going through preparation process with inputted real-time license plate image of Korea and Japan, and then to classify license plate with using characteristic and geometric information of license plates. It classifies the extracted license plate images into letters and numbers, such as local name, local number, classification character and license consecutive numbers, and recognize license plate of Korea and Japan by applying hybrid and seven segments pattern vectors to classified letter and number region. License plate extraction step of the proposed system uses width and length information along with relative rate of Korean and Japanese license plate. Moreover, it exactly segmentation by letters with using each letter and number position information within license plate region, and recognizes Korean and Japanese license plates by applying hybrid and seven segment pattern vectors, containing characteristics related to letter size and movement within segmented letter area. As the result of testing the proposed system in real experiment, it recognized regardless of external lighting conditions as well as classifying license plates by nations, Korea and Japan. We have developed a system, recognizing regardless of inputted structural character of vehicle licenses and external environment.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2020

Vehicle license plate recognition system is not generalized in Malaysia due to the loose character layout rule and the varying number of characters as well as the mixed capital English characters and italic English words. Because the italic English word is hard to segmentation, a separate method is required to recognize in Malaysian license plate. In this paper, we propose a mixed character level and word level English license plate recognition algorithm using deep learning neural networks. The difference of Gaussian method is used to segment character and word by generating a black and white image with emphasized character strokes and separated touching characters. The proposed deep learning neural networks are implemented on the LPR system at the gate of a building in Kuala-Lumpur for the collection of database and the evaluation of algorithm performance. The evaluation results show that the proposed Malaysian English LPR can be used in commercial market with 98.01% accuracy.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.313-319
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 획득된 차량 영상에서 수직 에지의 특징을 이용하여 번호판 영역과 개별 코드를 추출하고, 추출된 개별 코드는 퍼지 신경망 알고리즘을 이용하여 인식한다. 차량 번호판 영역을 검출하기 위해 프리윗 마스크에 의해 수직 에지를 찾고, 차량 번호판에 관한 특성 정보를 이용하여 잡음을 제거한 추에 차량 번호판 영역과 개별 코드를 추출한다 추출된 개별 코드를 인식하기 위해 퍼지 신경망 알고리즘을 제안하고 인식에 적용한다. 제안된 퍼지 신경망은 입력층과 중간층간의 학습 구조로는 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하고, 중간층과 출력층간의 학습 구조에는 Max_Min 신경망을 적용한다. 제안된 방법의 추출 및 인식 성능을 평가하기 위하여 실제 차량 영상 150장을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 차량 번호판 인식 방법보다 효율적이고 인식 성능이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38C권12호
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• pp.1114-1125
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• 2013

License Plate Detection (LPD) is a key component in automatic license plate recognition system. Despite the success of License Plate Recognition (LPR) methods in the past decades, the problem is quite a challenge due to the diversity of plate formats and multiform outdoor illumination conditions during image acquisition. This paper aims at automatical detection of car license plates via image processing techniques. In this paper, we proposed a real-time and robust method for license plate detection using Heuristic Energy Map(HEM). In the vehicle image, the region of license plate contains many components or edges. We obtain the edge energy values of an image by using the box filter and search for the license plate region with high energy values. Using this energy value information or Heuristic Energy Map(HEM), we can easily detect the license plate region from vehicle image with a very high possibilities. The proposed method consists two main steps: Region of Interest (ROI) Detection and License Plate Detection. This method has better performance in speed and accuracy than the most of existing methods used for license plate detection. The proposed method can detect a license plate within 130 milliseconds and its detection rate is 99.2% on a 3.10-GHz Intel Core i3-2100(with 4.00 GB of RAM) personal computer.

• 경영과학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1-11
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• 1996

Two different methods to extract the license plate area of a vehicle have been used for automatic recognition purposes. One method is with a color vision system and the other is with an edge detecting operator. The system with color vision has some problems if the colors of license plate and vehicle's body are similar. The various plate colors in Korea also drops the system performance. The edge detecting operator also has a problem for a real time processing since it performs on all pixels of the scene. In this paper a possible method using gray level vision system and available pre-known information of license plates is suggested. The suggested procedure searches the lower boundary of the plate by counting high contrast points between one and near pixel from the bottom line of the scene. It finds the upper boundary from the bottom line by adding number plate height after finding the lower boundary. The left and right boundaries are found by similar processes.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.555-562
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a sorting method for extracting accurate license plate information, which is currently used in Korea, after detecting objects using YOLO. We propose sorting methods for the five types of vehicle license plates managed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport by classifying the plates with the number of lines, Korean characters, and numbers. The results of experiments with 5 license plates show that the proposed algorithm identifies all license plate types and information by focusing on the object with high reliability score in the result label file presented by YOLO and deleting unnecessary object information. The proposed method will be applicable to all systems that recognize license plates.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권10호
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• pp.909-919
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• 2014

License plate (LP) detection is the most imperative part of an automatic LP recognition (LPR) system. Typical LPR contains two steps, namely LP detection (LPD) and character recognition. In this paper, we propose an efficient Vehicle-to-LP detection framework which combines with an adaptive GMM (Gaussian Mixture Model) and a cascade of boosted classifiers to make a faster vehicle LP detector. To develop a background model by using a GMM is possible in the circumstance of a fixed camera and extracts the motions using background subtraction. Firstly, an adaptive GMM is used to find the region of interest (ROI) on which motion detectors are running to detect the vehicle area as blobs ROIs. Secondly, a cascade of boosted classifiers is executed on the blobs ROIs to detect a LP. The experimental results on our test video with the resolution of $720{\times}576$ show that the LPD rate of the proposed system is 99.14% and the average computational time is approximately 42ms.