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Vehicle License Plate Detection in Road Images

도로주행 영상에서의 차량 번호판 검출

  • 임광용 (연세대학교 컴퓨터과학과) ;
  • 변혜란 (연세대학교 컴퓨터과학과) ;
  • 최영우 (숙명여자대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
  • Received : 2015.07.09
  • Accepted : 2015.12.31
  • Published : 2016.02.15
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Abstract

This paper proposes a vehicle license plate detection method in real road environments using 8 bit-MCT features and a landmark-based Adaboost method. The proposed method allows identification of the potential license plate region, and generates a saliency map that presents the license plate's location probability based on the Adaboost classification score. The candidate regions whose scores are higher than the given threshold are chosen from the saliency map. Each candidate region is adjusted by the local image variance and verified by the SVM and the histograms of the 8bit-MCT features. The proposed method achieves a detection accuracy of 85% from various road images in Korea and Europe.

본 논문에서는 도로주행 영상에서의 자동차 번호판 검출방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 조명변화에 강인한 8bit-MCT 특징과 랜드마크 기반의 Adaboost 알고리즘을 이용하여 번호판 후보 영역을 생성하고, Adaboost의 검출 스코어를 이용하여 번호판의 위치를 확률로 추정하는 현저도 지도를 생성한다. 현저도 지도에서 임계값 이상의 영역을 번호판 후보 영역으로 검출하고, 각 후보 영역에 대하여 지역분산을 이용하여 영역을 보정한 후 SVM과 8bit-MCT의 히스토그램을 특징으로 사용하여 영역을 검증하고 자동차 번호판 영역을 확정한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법을 한국과 유럽의 다양한 도로주행 영상에 적용하여 85%의 안정적인 검출 성능을 실험을 통하여 입증하였다.

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Acknowledgement

Supported by : 한국연구재단

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