• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1795-1811
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• 2019

In order to achieve rapid and accurate detection of vehicle objects in complex traffic conditions, we propose a novel vehicle detection method. Firstly, more contextual and small-object vehicle information can be obtained by our Joint Feature Network (JFN). Secondly, our Evolved Region Proposal Network (EPRN) generates initial anchor boxes by adding an improved version of the region proposal network in this network, and at the same time filters out a large number of false vehicle boxes by soft-Non Maximum Suppression (NMS). Then, our Mask Network (MaskN) generates an example that includes the vehicle occlusion, the generator and discriminator can learn from each other in order to further improve the vehicle object detection capability. Finally, these candidate vehicle detection boxes are optimized to obtain the final vehicle detection boxes by the Fine-Tuning Network(FTN). Through the evaluation experiment on the DETRAC benchmark dataset, we find that in terms of mAP, our method exceeds Faster-RCNN by 11.15%, YOLO by 11.88%, and EB by 1.64%. Besides, our algorithm also has achieved top2 comaring with MS-CNN, YOLO-v3, RefineNet, RetinaNet, Faster-rcnn, DSSD and YOLO-v2 of vehicle category in KITTI dataset.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.797-807
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• 2008

본 논문은 복잡한 도로 영상에서 차량 검출의 효율성을 높이기 위해 체인코드를 이용한 차선의 검출로부터 도로 영역을 찾아 차량이 존재하는 차량 영역의 추출 기법을 제안한다 먼저, 복잡한 도로 영상에서 정확한 차선을 검출하기 위해 체인코드를 이용하여 에지 화소들간의 연결성을 고려한다. 주행 차량의 방향과 일치하는 차선을 검출한 후, 중앙의 차선으로부터 차도의 폭과 차선의 소실점을 찾아 인접하는 차도를 찾는다. 마지막으로 주행 차선과 인접 차선을 포함하는 도로 영역 내에 차량의 에지 정보를 이용하여 차량이 존재하는 차량 영역을 추출한다 따라서, 제안하는 차량 영역의 추출 기법은 복잡한 배경을 갖는 도로 영상에서 차량의 검출율을 높이고 추출된 차량 영역에 한정할 수 있기 때문에 차량을 검출하는데 매우 효율적이다. 본 논문은 제안하는 차량 영역의 추출 기법의 우수성을 복잡한 도로 영상에서 차량 검출율의 실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2017

Ubiquitous computing is a novel paradigm that is rapidly gaining in the scenario of wireless communications and telecommunications for realizing smart world. As rapid development of sensor technology, smart sensor system becomes more popular in automobile or vehicle. In this study, a new vehicle detection mechanism in real-time for blind spot area is proposed based on imaging sensors. To determine the position of other vehicles on the road is important for operation of driver assistance systems (DASs) to increase driving safety. As the result, blind spot detection of vehicles is addressed using an automobile detection algorithm for blind spots. The proposed vehicle verification utilizes the height and angle of a rear-looking vehicle mounted camera. Candidate vehicle information is extracted using adaptive shadow detection based on brightness values of an image of a vehicle area. The vehicle is verified using a training set with Haar-like features of candidate vehicles. Using these processes, moving vehicles can be detected in blind spots. The detection ratio of true vehicles was 91.1% in blind spots based on various experimental results.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.663-672
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• 2023

Most vehicle detection methods have poor vehicle feature extraction performance at night, and their robustness is reduced; hence, this study proposes a night vehicle detection method based on style transfer image enhancement. First, a style transfer model is constructed using cycle generative adversarial networks (cycleGANs). The daytime data in the BDD100K dataset were converted into nighttime data to form a style dataset. The dataset was then divided using its labels. Finally, based on a YOLOv5s network, a nighttime vehicle image is detected for the reliable recognition of vehicle information in a complex environment. The experimental results of the proposed method based on the BDD100K dataset show that the transferred night vehicle images are clear and meet the requirements. The precision, recall, mAP@.5, and mAP@.5:.95 reached 0.696, 0.292, 0.761, and 0.454, respectively.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.266-270
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a technique of drowsiness detection using machine vision. The drowsiness of vehicle driver is often the primary cause of motor vehicle accidents. Therefore, the checking of eye images for detecting drowsiness status of driver is critical for preventing these accidents. In our suggested method, we analyze the changes of histogram and edge of eye region images which are acquired using CCD camera. We developed a drowsiness detection system using the histogram and edge change information. The experimental results show that our proposed method enhances the accuracy of detecting drowsiness nearly to 98%, and can be used for preventing vehicle accidents due to the drowsiness of drivers.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.621-626
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• 2015

This paper presents a camera calibration method in order to estimate the lane detection and inter-vehicle distance estimation system for an automotive safety driving system. In order to implement the lane detection and vision-based inter-vehicle distance estimation to the embedded navigations or black box systems, it is necessary to consider the computation time and algorithm complexity. The process of camera calibration estimates the horizon, the position of the car's hood and the lane width for extraction of region of interest (ROI) from input image sequences. The precision of the calibration method is very important to the lane detection and inter-vehicle distance estimation. The proposed calibration method consists of three main steps: 1) horizon area determination; 2) estimation of the car's hood area; and 3) estimation of initial lane width. Various experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.183-195
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• 2016

This paper presents a complete method for vehicle detection and tracking in a fixed setting based on computer vision. Vehicle detection is performed based on Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) feature matching. With SIFT feature detection and matching, the geometrical relations between the two images is estimated. Then, the previous image is aligned with the current image so that moving vehicles can be detected by analyzing the difference image of the two aligned images. Vehicle tracking is also performed based on SIFT feature matching. For the decreasing of time consumption and maintaining higher tracking accuracy, the detected candidate vehicle in the current image is matched with the vehicle sample in the tracking sample set, which contains all of the detected vehicles in previous images. Most remarkably, the management of vehicle entries and exits is realized based on SIFT feature matching with an efficient update mechanism of the tracking sample set. This entire method is proposed for highway traffic environment where there are no non-automotive vehicles or pedestrians, as these would interfere with the results.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.411-419
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• 2020

In real-world intelligent transportation systems, accuracy in vehicle license plate detection and recognition is considered quite critical. Many algorithms have been proposed for still images, but their accuracy on actual videos is not satisfactory. This stems from several problematic conditions in videos, such as vehicle motion blur, variety in viewpoints, outliers, and the lack of publicly available video datasets. In this study, we focus on these challenges and propose a license plate detection and recognition scheme for videos based on a temporal matching prior network. Specifically, to improve the robustness of detection and recognition accuracy in the presence of motion blur and outliers, forward and bidirectional matching priors between consecutive frames are properly combined with layer structures specifically designed for plate detection. We also built our own video dataset for the deep training of the proposed network. During network training, we perform data augmentation based on image rotation to increase robustness regarding the various viewpoints in videos.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제20권6호
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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.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.261-267
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• 2007

최근 교통문제 해결을 위한 하나의 방안으로 첨단교통체계(ITS)에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 또한 도로 상에서 차량을 검출하기 위한 다양한 방법들이 제시되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 영상처리 기술을 이용하여 이동하는 차량을 검출하는 차량검지 시스템을 개발하여 도로 이용자에게 신속한 정보를 제공하고자 한다. 또한 차량을 검출하기 위해 효율적이고 하드웨어로 구현이 쉬운 알고리즘을 개발하는데 목적이 있다. CCD 카메라를 이용하여 도로 영상을 촬영하고, 모폴로지 기법을 적용하여 영상으로부터 특징점을 추출하고, 추출된 특징점 간의 이동벡터를 구하여 움직이는 차량영역을 검출한다. 제안된 알고리즘을 실제 도로 영상에서 실험한 결과 처리시간이 단축되었으며, 차량 검출에서 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.