• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.29-37
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• 2009

This paper describes a vision-based and real-time system for detecting road signs from within a moving vehicle. The proposed system has the standard architecture with adaboost algorithm to detect road signs in real time. And it uses the value of vortical plane in the process of extracting candidate areas in view of fact that there are vertically most of signs on roads. Although being useful for detecting objects in real time, the conventional adaboost algorithm deteriorates the performance of detection rate in complex circumstance by reason of using only integral images as features. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes the method that improves the reliability of candidates as using the value of vertical plane for extracting candidate area and improves the performance of the detection rate as using integral images to which we add the kind of feature prototype. The experiments of this paper show that the detection rate of the proposed method has higher than that of the conventional adaboost algorithm under the real complex circumstance of roads.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.5C
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• pp.716-725
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• 2004

In this paper, a new multiview stereoscopic 3D display system using a VHLS(volume holographic lenticular sheet) is suggested. The VHLS, which acts just like an optical direction modulator, can be implemented by recording the diffraction gratings corresponding each directional vector of the multiview stereoscopic images in the holographic recording material by using the angularly multiplexed recording property of the conventional volume hologram. Then, this fabricated VHLS is attached to the panel of a LCD spatial light modulator and used to diffract each of the multiview image loaded in a SLM to the corresponding spatial direction for making a 3D stereo view-zone. Accordingly, in this paper, the operational principle and characteristics of the VHLS are analyzed and an optimized 4-view VHLS is fabricated by using a commercial photopolymer. Then, a new VHLS-based 4-view stereoscopic 3D display system is implemented. Through some experimental results using a 4-view image synthesized with adaptive disparity estimation algorithm, it is suggested that implementation of a new VHLS-based multiview stereoscopic 3D display system can be possible.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.71-82
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a license plate detection method with improved Adaboost learning and MCT (Modified Census Transform). The MCT represents the local structure patterns as integer numbered feature values which has robustness to illumination change and memory efficiency. However, since these integer values are discrete, a lookup table is needed to design a weak classifier for Adaboost learning. Some previous research efforts have focused on minimization of exponential criterion for Adaboost optimization. In this paper, a method that uses MCT and improved Adaboost learning based on Newton's optimization to exponential criterion is proposed for license plate detection. Experimental results on license patch images and field images demonstrate that the proposed method yields higher performance of detection rates with low false positives than the conventional method using the original Adaboost learning.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.339-345
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• 2002

Extracting of car licens plate os important for identifying the car. Since there are some problems such as poor ambient lighting problem, bad weather problem and so on, the car images are distorted and the car license plate is difficult to be extracted. This paper proposes a method of extracting car license plate using motor vehicle regulation. In this method, some features of car license plate according to motor vehicle regulation such as color information, shape are applied to determine the candidate of car license plates. For the result of recognition by neural network, the candidate which has characters and numbers patterns according to motor vehicle regulation is certified as license-plate region. The results of the experiments with 70 samples of real car images shoe the performance of car license-plate extraction by 84.29%, and the recognition rate is 80.81%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.596-599
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• 2001

Extracting of car licens plate is important for identifying the car. Since there are some problems such as poor ambient lighting problem, bad weather problem and so on, the car images we distorted and the tar license plate is difficult to be extracted. This paper proposes a method of extracting car license plate using motor vehicle regulation. In this method, some features of car license plate according to motor vehicle regulation such as color information, shape are applied to determine the candidate of car license plates. For the result of recognition by neural network, the candidate which has characters and numbers patterns according to motor vehicle regulation is certified as license-plate region. The results of the experiments with 70 samples of real car images shoe the performance of car license-plate extraction by 84.29%, and the recognition rate is 80.81%.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.39-42
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• 2010

산업의 발달과 경제 성장에 따른 차량의 증가는 교통 환경과 관련된 여러 문제를 유발하고 있다. 차량의 증가는 이러한 문제를 더욱 더 심각하게 만들고 있어 이를 해결하기 위한 방법의 모색이 필요하다. 차량의 번호판을 인식하는 것은 차량 정보를 인식하는데 중요하게 사용될 수 있고 효율적으로 교통문제를 개선할 수 있을 것이다. 본 논문은 실시간으로 촬영된 차량의 동영상 정보를 이용하여 자동차 번호판의 위치를 추적하는 기법을 제안하고, 동영상을 이용한 차량의 정보 수집이 어떠한 이점이 있는지와 향후 발전 가능성에 대한 설명을 포함한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.126-129
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• 2018

기존 자율주행자동차의 영상 센서 시스템이 표지판에 약간의 부착물만 붙어도 인식이 되지 않는 점을 고려해 Semi-Passive RFID(Radio-Frequency Identification)기술을 이용한다. 각 표지판마다 소스코드를 설정한 후 RFID 태그를 부착하고 자동차의 룸미러 뒤쪽 중앙에 RFID 리더기를 부착해 원거리에서 태그와 리더기의 작용을 통해 영상 센서 시스템의 취약점을 보완해 오류를 줄인다. 태그의 건전지를 대체하여 M24LR16E칩을 적용한다. 이 칩은 기존에 낭비되는 전파와 폐열, 움직임에 따라 발생하는 동작 에너지의 미세한 에너지를 모아 메모리칩을 구동한다. 또한 GPS를 이용한 위치정보 획득 및 지리적 변화의 낮은 정확도를 보완해 도시 인프라에 부착된 RFID를 제안하여 이를 이용한 위치정보 획득과 처리방안의 문제점도 해결한다.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.181-184
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• 2009

본 논문은 번호판 내 명암도 대비를 이용한 자동차 번호판 검출 기법을 제안한다. 평균값 필터와 라플라시안 필터를 사용하여 영상의 잡음을 제거하는 동시에 에지 성분을 향상시킨 후 조명 환경 변화에 강인한 번호판 내 명암도 대비 특징을 이용하여 문자 후보를 검출한다. 다음으로 검출된 문자 후보가 열을 이루는 텍스트 후보를 검출하고, 이 영역을 Otsu 이진화 기업을 사용하여 x축에 투영하였을 시 나타나는 패턴을 평가함으로써 최종적으로 자동차 번호판을 검출하게 된다. 제안하는 기법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 다수의 데이터를 사용하여 실험하였고, 이를 분석하여 제안하는 기법의 우수성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.259-261
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• 2003

차량 번호판 인식 시스템의 번호판 인식과정은 영상획득 및 번호판 영역 추출, 개별문자 추출, 문자 인식의 3가지 핵심부분으로 구성된다. 이 중에서도 번호판 추출의 정확성은 시스템 전체의 결과에 영향을 줄 수 있는 부분이며 다양한 주변 환경에도 정확한 추출과 빠른 수행 시간을 요구한다. 본 논문에서는 검출 시간의 단축을 위하여 명암값의 차이와 사전정보를 이용하여 먼저 인식대상의 주목표인 등록번호의 위치를 추출 및 검증하고 등록번호에 대한 지역명의 상대적인 위치 정보를 이용하여 문자의 대략적인 위치를 선정, 각 요소들의 외곽 근접 선들의 투영(protection)과 이동을 통하여 번호판의 모든 문자 요소의 위치를 추출한다.