• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.61-71
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• 2009

Vehicle license plate is the only way to check the registrated information of a vehicle. Many works have been devoted to the vision system of recognizing the license plate, which has been widely used to control an illegal parking. However, it is difficult to correctly segment characters on the license plate since an illumination is affected by a weather change and a neighboring obstacles. This paper proposes a robust method of segmenting the character of the license plate on irregular illumination condition. The proposed method enhance the contrast of license plate images using the Chi-Square probability density function. For segmenting characters on the license plate, binary images with the high quality are gained by applying the adaptive threshold. Preprocessing and labeling algorithm are used to eliminate noises existing during the whole segmentation process. Finally, profiling method is applied to segment characters on license plate from binary images.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.877-884
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• 2023

In this study, when another vehicle is parked in a designated space where a personal vehicle can park and a defined personal use time, an ultrasonic object recognition sensor is used to determine vehicle entry, and a camera sensor recognizes a license plate. If the vehicle is not recognized by the individual vehicle owner, the "private parking lot operation block" of the application server receives the individual phone number based on the National Police Agency's Vehicle Number Information Inquiry Open API. Afterwards, when parking is processed, the non-right holder receives the approval of the parking right holder, parks for the recognized time, and deposits the parking fee into the public account of the city hall. Through this study, it was possible to find an operation processing method that can most effectively manage parking in the city center in a private parking space recognized by the city hall.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.127-130
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• 2000

음성인식 기술은 사용자의 편리성을 제공하는 인터페이스로 많이 환용이 된다. 또한 음성이라는 특성상 새로이 기계를 작동하는 방법을 익히지 않아도 되며 빠르게 정보를 전달 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 음성인식 기술을 차량 번호를 조회하는 단말기에 적용하였다. 이것은 기존의 단말기보다 입력이 간편하여 사용자에게 편리함을 제공한다. 또한 잦은 오류를 피할 수 있으며 오류가 발생했다 하더라도 쉽게 수정할 수 있는 기능을 제공한다

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.747-753
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• 2018

In the license-plate recognition systems for automobile black Image, the license-plate image frequently has a shadow due to outdoor environments which are frequently changing. Such a shadow makes unpredictable errors in the segmentation process of individual characters and numbers of the license plate image, and reduces the overall recognition rate. In this paper, to improve the recognition rate in these circumstance, a license-plate image binarization algorithm is proposed removing the shadow effectively. The propose algorithm splits the license-plate image into the regions with the shadow and without. To find out the boundary of two regions, the algorithm estimates the curve for shadow boundary using the least-squares method. The simulation is performed for the license-plate image having its shadow, and the results show much higher recognition rate than the previous algorithm.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.713-725
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• 2019

Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a technology required for many applications such as Intelligent Transportation Systems and Video Surveillance Systems. Most of the studies have studied were about the detection and recognition of license plates on cars, and there is very little about detecting and recognizing license plates on motorbikes. In the case of a car, the license plate is located at the front or rear center of the vehicle and is a straight or slightly sloped license plate. Also, the background of the license plate is mainly monochromatic, and license plate detection and recognition process is less complicated. However since the motorbike is parked by using a kickstand, it is inclined at various angles when parked, so the process of recognizing characters on the motorbike license plate is more complicated. In this paper, we have developed a 2-stage YOLOv2 algorithm to detect the area of a license plate after detection of a motorbike area in order to improve the recognition accuracy of license plate for motorbike data set parked at various angles. In order to increase the detection rate, the size and number of the anchor boxes were adjusted according to the characteristics of the motorbike and license plate. Image warping algorithms were applied after detecting tilted license plates. As a result of simulating the license plate character recognition process, the proposed method had the recognition rate of license plate of 80.23% compared to the recognition rate of the conventional method(YOLOv2 without image warping) of 47.74%. Therefore, the proposed method can increase the recognition of tilted motorbike license plate character by using the adjustment of anchor boxes and the image warping which fit the motorbike license plate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.239-241
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• 2022

Currently, in Korea, a multi-seater lane (HOV) and a designated lane system are being implemented to solve traffic congestion. However, in both systems, it is difficult to crack down on cases of violations without permission, so people are required to be assigned to areas that want to crack down. In this process, manpower and budget are inefficiently consumed. To compensate for these shortcomings, we propose the development of an integrated enforcement system through YOLO, a deep learning object recognition model. If the two systems are implemented and integrated using YOLO, they will have advantages in terms of manpower and budget over existing systems because only data learning and system maintenance are considered. In addition, in the case of violations in which it is difficult for the existing unmanned system to crack down, the effect of increasing the crackdown rate through continuous learning can be expected.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.173-179
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• 2018

With the recent increase in the number of cars and the lack of parking spaces, the number of parking businesses has increased. the parking management has become an essential element in parking business, and the parking management's company becomes an increasingly popular opportunity. However, as competition grows as more and more and companies increase in number, efforts are being made to create new services, gain technological excellence, or reduce costs through current system improvements. In this paper, we developed a parking management system using cloud based LPR(License Plate Recognition) service for effective parking. Structural improvements in the proposed system reduce costs, simplify installation, and respond quickly to failures and updates.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.1352-1357
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• 2002

This Paper describes algorithm to extract license plates in vehicle images. Conventional methods perform preprocessing on the entire vehicle image to produce the edge image and binarize it. Hough transform is applied to the binary image to find horizontal and vertical lines, and the license plate area is extracted using the characteristics of license plates. Problems with this approach are that real-time processing is not feasible due to long processing time and that the license plate area is not extracted when lighting is irregular such as at night or when the plate boundary does not show up in the image. This research uses the gray level transition characteristics of license plates to verify the digit area by examining the digit width and the level difference between the background area the digit area, and then extracts the plate area by testing the distance between the verified digits. This research solves the problem of failure in extracting the license plates due to degraded plate boundary as in the conventional methods and resolves the problem of the time requirement by processing the real time such that practical application is possible. This paper Presents a power automated license plate recognition system, which is able to read license numbers of cars, even under circumstances, which are far from ideal. In a real-life test, the percentage of rejected plates wan 13%, whereas 0.4% of the plates were misclassified. Suggestions for further improvements are given.