• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10b
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• pp.496-498
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• 1998

현재 우편 처리용 바코드는 광학문자판독기에 의해 판독된 우편번호를 3 of 5 형광 바코드로 인쇄하고, 판독하여 우편물을 자동구분 처리하는 LSM(Letter Sorting Machine)을 사용하고 있다. 광학문자판독에 의한 인쇄체 문자 인식율은 94~96%정도로 처리되므로 오류 우편물의 최소화를 위하여 LSM에 형광 바코드와 동일한 체계로 구성된 흑색 바코드를 적용하고, 광학문자판독을 하지 않고도 우편물을 자동처리할 수 있는 체계를 구축하고 있다. 우편고객이 흑색 바코드를 우편물에 사전에 인쇄하여 접수하도록 하여 공학문자판독에 의한 처리 과정 축소함으로써, 보다 효과적인 우편 배달 서비스를 제공하기 위한 노력을 시도하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 우편 고객이 인쇄한 3 of 5 고객 바코드를 사전에 검사하여 우편물 자동처리를 보다 효과적으로 수행될 수 있도록 하기 위한 방법을 제고하는 고객 바코드 검증 시스템의 설계 및 구현에 대한 것이다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.269-276
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• 2018

OCR(Optical Character Recognition) using computers has been developed for 20 years and applied to various fields such as parking management based on the recognition of license plates of cars. This technology was also used in the development of our smart OCR-based household ledger. In order to improve filling the purchase history into a smartphone based household account book, we can take pictures of receipts with the smarphone camera and automatically organize the purchase list. In this process, the recognition rate of the characters of the receipt image is not high enough with OCR technology. We could improve the rate by applying the image processing technology and adjusting the contrast of the receipt image. The rate improved from 89% to 92.5%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.95-101
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• 2014

This paper explains effective tracking method for a vehicle cutting in a line on the road automatically. The method employs KLT based on optical flow using play-back image sequence. Main contribution of this paper is play-back image sequence that is in order image frames for rewind direction from a reference point in time. The moment when recognizing camera can read a license plate very well can usually be the reference point in time. The biggest images of object traced can usually be obtained at this moment also. When optic flow is applied, the bigger image of the object traced can be obtained, the more feature points can be obtained. More many feature points bring good result of tracking object. After the recognizing cameras read a license plate on the vehicle suspected of cut-in-line violation, and then the system extracts the play-back image sequence from the tracking cameras for watching wide range. This paper compares using play-back image sequence as normal method for tracking to using play-forward image sequence as suggested method on the results of the experiment and also shows the suggested algorithm has a good performance that can be applied to the unmanned system for watching cut-in-line violation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.219-231
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• 2019

The specifications of signboards are set for each type of signboards, but the shape and size of the signboard actually installed are not uniform. In addition, because the colors of the signboard are not defined, so various colors are applied to the signboard. Methods for recognizing signboards can be thought of as similar methods of recognizing road signs and license plates, but due to the nature of the signboards, there are limitations in that the signboards can not be recognized in a way similar to road signs and license plates. In this study, we proposed a methodology for recognizing plate-type signboards, which are the main targets of illegal and old signboards, and automatically extracting areas of signboards, using the deep learning-based Faster R-CNN algorithm. The process of recognizing flat type signboards through signboard images captured by using smartphone cameras is divided into two sequences. First, the type of signboard was recognized using deep learning to recognize flat type signboards in various types of signboard images, and the result showed an accuracy of about 71%. Next, when the boundary recognition algorithm for the signboards was applied to recognize the boundary area of the flat type signboard, the boundary of flat type signboard was recognized with an accuracy of 85%.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.1960-1972
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• 2006

In this thesis, GPS and the electronic mapping were used to realize such a system by recognizing license plate numbers and identifying the location of objects that move at synchronous times with simulated movement in the electronic map. As well, throughout the study, a camera attached to a PDA, one of the mobile devices, automatically recognized and confirmed acquired license plate numbers from the front and back of each cu. Using this mobile technique in a wireless network searches for specific plate numbers and information about the location of the car is transmitted to a remote sewer. The use of such a GPS-based system allows for the measurement of topography and the effective acquisition of a car's location. The information is then transmitted to a central controlling center and stored as text to be reproduced later in the form of diagrams. Getting positional information through GPS and using image-processing with a PDA makes it possible to estimate the correct information of a car's location and to transmit the specific information of the car to a control center simultaneously, so that the center will get information such as type of the cu, possibility of the defects that a car might have, and possibly to offer help with those functions. Such information can establish a mobile system that can recognize and accurately trace the location of cars.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07b
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• pp.965-967
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• 1995

One of the most difficult tasks in the process of automatic vehicle license plate recognition is the extraction of each character from within license plate region. In many cases, characters, especially serial numbers of plates are connected together due to noise and plate accessories. The recognition process may not be successful without extracting these characters effectively. This paper presents an algorithm to extract these connected characters very effectively. The algorithm utilizes mathematical morphology, connected component analysis, and gradient filters for character extraction. The paper also presents thorough experimental results as well as details of the algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.127-128
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• 2017

해마다 대포차로 인한 사건 사고가 많이 일어나고 있으며, 피해율이 점점 더 증가하는 시점에서 검거율은 현저히 낮다. 이러한 문제를 줄이기 위해 대포차 검거 애플리케이션을 개발하고자 한다. 본 연구는 GPS와 사진으로부터 텍스트를 추출하는 기능을 활용하여 대포차를 검거하는 데 도움을 주는 애플리케이션이다. 사용자가 정차 및 주차되어 있는 차의 번호판을 사진 촬영 기능을 활용하여 자동으로 사진을 분석을 통해 차량의 번호를 인식하고, GPS를 활용하여 촬영한 장소의 위치 값을 추출하고 대포차 여부를 확인한다. 촬영한 차량이 대포차로 식별되면 관리 서버에 등록되고 대응 절차에 의해 대포차 검거 절차를 진행한다. 대포차의 실시간 검거를 위해 대포차 대응서버에서는 관리자에게 실시간으로 정보를 전송하고 알림 기능을 통해 검거 절차가 진행된다. 또한 실시간 대응에 어려움이 있는 상황에서는 자주 신고가 접수되는 출몰지역 정보를 관리자가 유추할 수 있도록 통계정보를 제공하여 추후 잠복에 의한 검거 정보를 제공한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.3 s.81
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• pp.109-123
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• 2005

The goals of this paper are two folds: i) to evaluate whether the data collected by a license plate matching AVI equipment being operated on some segment of a national highway are suitable or not for use in travel time estimation of interrupted traffic flows; ii) to study the statistical methodologies to be used for the determination of the optimal aggregation interval for travel time estimation. In this study it was found that the AVI data are not representative because the data are collected on some selected lanes of a roadway where main traffic is thru-traffic and, thus the AVI data are different from those collected from all lanes in traffic characteristics. For the determination of the optimal aggregation interval for travel time estimation. two statistical methods. namely point estimation and interval estimation. were tested. The test shows that the point estimation method is more sensitive and gives more desirable results in determing the optimal aggregation interval than the interval estimation method. And it turned out that the optimal aggregation interval on interrupted traffic flows has been calculated as 5 minute and thus the existing aggregation interval. 5 minute is proper.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.511-519
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• 1997

This paper presents the automatic recognition algorithm of the license number in on vehicle image. The proposed algorithm uses the correlation coefficient and Hough transform to detect license plate. The m/n ratio reduction is performed to save time and memory. By the correlation coefficient between the standard pattern and the target pattern, licence plate area is roughly extracted. On the extracted local area, preprocessing and binarization is performed. The Hough transform is applied to find the extract outline of the plate. If the detection fails, a smaller or a larger standard pattern is used to compute the correlation coefficient. Through this process, the license plate of different size can be extracted. Two algorithms to each separate number are proposed. One segments each number with projection-histogram, and the other segments each number with the label. After each character is separated, it is recognized by the neural network. This research overlomes the problems in conventional methods, such as the time requirement or failure in extraction of outlines which are due to the processing of the entire image, and by processing in real time, the practical application is possible.