• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2752-2754
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 차량영상으로부터 분류된 화소정보를 이용하여 번호판 정보를 검증하는 방법을 제안한다. 차량 번호판의 구조는 정규화된 형태로 구조적인 특징을 가지고 있다. 기존의 검증방법은 배경화소가 변색된 경우에는 번호판 정보를 추출하는데 어려움이 있다. 또한, 전처리 과정을 포함한 처리과정은 복잡하고 처리시간이 길다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 제안된 방법은 특정색상으로 분류된 화소정보를 이용하고, 기존의 검증조건을 통합하므로써 성능을 개선하여 보다 정확한 번호판 정보를 추출하도록 하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.12A
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• pp.2019-2026
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• 2001

In this paper, we proposed the car license plate extraction and recognition algorithm using both the dynamical thresholding method and the kohonen algorithm. In general, the areas of car license plate in the car images have distinguishing characteristics, such as the differences in intensity between the areas of characters and the background of the plates, the fixed ratio of width to height of the plates, and the higher dynamical thresholded density rate 7han the other areas, etc. Taking advantage of the characteristics, the thresholded images were created from the original images, and also the density rates were computed. A candidate area was selected, whose density rate was corresponding to the properties of the car license plate obtained from the car license plate. The contour tracking method by utilizing the Kohonen algorithm was applied to extract the specific area which included characters and numbers from an extracted plate area. The characters and numbers of the license place were recognized by using Kohonen algorithm. Kohonen algorithm was very effective o? suppressing noises scattered around the contour. In this study, 80 car images were tested. The result indicate that we proposed is superior in performance.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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• v.35T no.3
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• pp.46-52
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• 1998

In this paper, after inputting the computer with the attached number plate on the vehicle, using it, the color decomposition method and back propagation neural network proposed the extractable method of the vehicle number plate at high speed. This method separated R, G, B signal form input moving vehicle image to computer through video camera, then after transform this R, G, B signal into input image data of the computer by using color depth of vehicle number plate and store up binary value in the memory frame buffer. After adapting character's recognition algorithm, also improving this, by adapting back propagation neural network makes the vehicle number plate recognition system. Also minimalizing the similar color's confusion, adapting horizontal and vertical extracting algorithm by using the vehicle's rectangular architecture shows the extract and character's recognition of the vehicle number plate at high speed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.47-55
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new approach to detect peculiar features of license plates using intensity vector and composite color component in order to extract license plates from parking regulation images, which is captured in various locations around the front or the rear of cars at various times and places, and in which complex background is included. We fundamentally use both features that intensity value repeats frequently increasing and decreasing because intensity is obviously different at numerics and background, and that color is uniform in the area of license plates. First, we search each row at regular intervals starting from the bottom of a license-plate image, and we set up a rough region for a certain zone in which tile sign of intensity vector changes frequently enough and color of license plate is detected enough, assuming it as a candidate location of a license plate. And then, we extract an elaborate area of a license plate by projecting vertical edges horizontally and vertically. Here, type of cars, such as the urinate and the public, is easily classified according to the color of extracted plates. We used 200 actual regulation images, which are captured at various times and places, to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. As a result, the proposed method showed extraction rate of 96%, which is 9% higher than the previous method using only intensity vector.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.31-39
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• 2018

In this paper, we proposed a license plate detection method based on contour extraction that adapts to environmental changes. The proposed method extracts contour lines using DoG (Difference of Gaussian) to remove unnecessary noise parts in the contour extraction process. Binarization was applied in ugly outline images, and erosion and dilation operations were used to emphasize the contour of the character part. Then, only the outline of the ratio of the characters of the plate was extracted through the ratio of the width and height of the characters. And the case where the outline is the longest is estimated by estimating the characters of the license plate. For the experiment, we applied 130 image data to license plate on the front of the vehicle, oblique environment, and environment images with various backgrounds. I also experimented with motorcycle images of different license plate patterns. Experimental results showed that the detection rate of the oblique image was 93% and that of the various background environment was 70% in the motorcycle image but 98% in the front image.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.342-345
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• 2002

차량 번호판 인식에 대한 여러 가지 방법들이 제시되고 있다. 기존 연구들의 문제점은 번호판 영역의 밝기 변화 둥에 영향을 많이 받았으며 그로 인하여 번호판 영역 추출률에 영향을 미치는 것은 물론 문자 인식에서도 많은 문제점들이 존재하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 색상 정보를 이용하여 밝기를 보정한 후 마스크 적용을 통한 수평ㆍ수직 에지 검출과 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 번호판을 추출하고 변형된 특징 매칭을 이용하여 문자를 인식함으로써 인식률을 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.3995-4003
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• 2000

This paper describes a method that extracts the region of car-licence plates in color images of private and commercial cars. To extract car-licence plates, we use the feature that car-licence plate regions have regular colors according to the kinds of cars. In this paper, we propose the method that combines H component of HSI color model and Q component of YIQ color model. To improve efficiency of the process, we cxplore lines ill a car image by a regular interval in a bottom-up style. As a result, the extraction rates by only H-component. only by Q- component. and by combined Hand Q, are 53.6%, 82.1%, and 94.6% respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.31-37
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• 2001

License plate recognition system for an exclusive bus-lane is made of 5 core parts which are vehicle detection, image acquisition individual character extraction, character recognition and data transmission. Among them, the accuracy of license plate extraction can bring effect significantly to the accuracy of a whole system recognition rate also the more exact extraction of license plate is required in various weather and environment conditions. Therefore in this paper we propose a plat extraction algorithm that makes pyramid structure to reduced the extraction processing time binarizes plate's template region using adaptive thresholding extracts candidate region containing plate, and verifies a final region using plate character distribution characteristics among the candidates. Experimenal results were exactly extracted the license plate region by using proposed method to the image obtained in an exclusive bus-lane with various weather and environment conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.05a
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• pp.617-620
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• 2020

최근, 국내 자동차 보유율은 매년 증가하고 있으며, 자동차 증가율에 따라 자동차로 인한 사건, 사고 발생률 또한 증가하고 있다. 국가에서도 지능형교통시스템(ITS) 중 차량 변호판을 인식하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 차량 번호판 인식은 사건·사고 발생차량을 추적하거나 주차 무인시스템 등의 분야에 적용된다. 본 논문에서는 차량 번호판 영역을 추출하기 위한 여러 가지 방법들을 비교 분석하여 각 상황에 맞는 알고리즘을 적용하고자 한다.

• 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.