• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.2
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• pp.81-88
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• 2007

We implement automobile license plates recognition system. These days automobile license plate recognition systems are widely used for tracing stolen cars. managing parking facilities, ticketing speeding cars, and so on. Recognition systems largely consist of three parts plates extraction, segments extraction, and segment recognition. For plates extraction, we measure the degree of inclination of plate. We use filters that extract only the horizontal components of the front of an automobile to measure the degree of inclination. For segment extraction, we trace the change of the number of blocks that consist solely of foreground pixels or background pixels as the horizontal scanning line moves along upward. For recognition of each individual letter or digit, we devise a variant of template matching method, called comparative template matching. Through experiments, we show that comparative template matching is less prone misled by noises and exhibits higher performance compared to the traditional method of template matching or histogram based recognition.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.1081-1084
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• 1999

This paper proposes a method of extracting automobile license plate information using color image processing and separation of character regions. The hue and saturation of color information is need for license plate extraction and the specified standard location ratio is need for character region separation. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can detect license plates and separate character regions successfully.

• IE interfaces
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.296-301
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• 2001

The focus of this study is to redesign the Korean license plate by comparing the USA's plate with European plate formed by 1-line system in order to increase a read rate of Korea license plate. And we have compared the read rate of the new design license plate with that of the present license plate and that of the license plate studied so far. As an experimental method (used in a precedent research), we use three kinds of methods that are the measurement of the read-distance, the measurement reading-rate under the short-term exposure and the measurement of the reading-rate when driving. First, three kinds of measurements for plates of five nations are performed. Then we redesign the new Korean license plate under the base of read rates obtained by five nation's plate. As alternatives, we choose five license plates. Those alternatives are the redesigned license plate, the present license plate, the license plate studied so far, and two types of eternity license plates made by the Korea Transport Institute. When we compare results of the read-distance, there is no significant in term of different the read-distance between the alternatives. But there is a significant difference in term of the misreading-rate and the read-rate when diving. Therefore, it is necessary to redesign the present license plates because of a high misreading-rate.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.97-105
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• 2021

Recently, with the development of IT technology, unmanned systems are being introduced in many industrial fields, and one of the most important factors for introducing unmanned systems in the automobile field is vehicle licence plate recognition(VLPR). The existing VLPR algorithms are configured to use image processing for a specific type of license plate to divide individual areas of a character within the plate to recognize each character. However, as the number of Korean vehicle license plates increases, the law is amended, there are old-fashioned license plates, new license plates, and different types of plates are used for each type of vehicle. Therefore, it is necessary to update the VLPR system every time, which incurs costs. In this paper, we use an object detection algorithm to detect character regardless of the format of the vehicle license plate, and apply a handwritten Hangul recognition(HHR) algorithm to enhance the recognition accuracy of a single Hangul character, which is called a Hangul unit. Since Hangul unit is recognized by combining initial consonant, medial vowel and final consonant, so it is possible to use other Hangul units in addition to the 40 Hangul units used for the Korean vehicle license plate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.138-141
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 색상 정보를 이용하여 배경 영역이 포함된 자동차의 전,후면 사진에서의 자동차 번호판 영역(녹색, 흰색) 추출과 추출된 번호판에서 글자를 분리해내는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 색상 정보를 이용하여 번호판을 추출하는 방법은 흰색 번호판(신형 번호판)의 경우에는 배경 영역에서 흰색인 영역도 많고 국내 차량 중에 흰색 차량이 많기 때문에 번호판 영역과 배경 영역 사이의 명확한 구분에 어려움이 있었다. 따라서 행별 Red값 변화도를 조사하여 배경 영역과 번호판 영역 사이의 명확한 구분을 하게 하며, 흰색 번호판의 경우에 추출이 안되면 흰색의 기준을 더 낮추어서 다시 영역 추출을 할 수 있는 재추출 알고리즘을 추가해서 비교적 어두운 사진에서도 번호판영역을 추출할 수 있도록 한다. 추출된 번호판에서 글자를 추출해내는 과정에서도 이진화를 거치면 노이즈가 많이 생기기 때문에 이를 줄이고자 행별 Red값 변화도를 조사하여 번호판 영역에서 위아래 부분의 노이즈를 줄일 수 있도록 하였다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.88-97
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• 2015

An omnidirectional optical system can be described as a special optical system that images in real time a panoramic image with an azimuthal angle of $360^{\circ}$ and the altitude angle corresponding to the upper and lower fields of view from the horizon line. In this paper, for easy fabrication and compact size, we designed and fabricated a catadioptric omnidirectional optical system consisting of the mirror part of a spherical mirror with a central hole (that is, obscuration), a plane mirror, the imaging lens part of 3 single spherical lenses, and a spherical doublet in the visible light spectrum. We evaluated its image performance by measuring the cut-off spatial frequency using automobile license plates, and the vertical field of view using an ISO 12233 chart. We achieved a catadioptric omnidirectional optical system with vertical field of view from $+53^{\circ}$ to $-17^{\circ}$ and an azimuthal angle of $360^{\circ}$. This optical system cleaniy imaged letters on a car's front license plate at the object distance of 3 meters, which corresponds to a cut-off spatial frequency of 135 lp/mm.