• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.29-30
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 컨테이너 BIC-code 자동인식 시스템의 전 처리 과정으로서 다중 임계값을 이용한 BIC-code 영역 추출 방법을 제안한다. 기후요소, 빛, 카메라 위치, 컨테이너의 색과 같은 다양한 요인으로 인해 고정된 임계값을 사용할 수 없다. 따라서 각 영상에 대해 다양한 임계값으로 실험하여 컨테이너 BIC-code 인식에 가장 우수한 임계값을 결정하여 영상을 이진화한다. 다음으로, 가장 우수한 임계값으로 이진화 한 영상에 대하여 레이블링, 닫힘 연산을 통해 BIC-code의 가로, 세로 여부를 판단하게 된다. 또한 레이블링 된 각 영역을 판단하여 잡음을 제거하고, 개별 code를 분리한다. 제안된 방법에 대한 실험결과 성공적인 코드 영역 분리가 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1462-1470
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• 2015

The container BIC-code is a transport protocol for convenience in international shipping and combined transport environment. It is an identification code of a marine transport container which displays a wide variety of information including country's code. Recently, transportation through aircrafts and ships continues to rise. Thus fast and accurate processes are required in the ports to manage transportation. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose a BIC-code region extraction and recognition method using multiple thresholds. In the code recognition, applying a fixed threshold is not reasonable due to a variety of illumination conditions caused by change of weather, lightening, camera position, color of the container and so on. Thus, the proposed method selects the best recognition result at the final stage after applying multiple thresholds to recognition. For each threshold, we performs binarization, labeling, BIC-code pattern decision (horizontal or vertical pattern) by morphological close operation, and character separation from the BIC-code. Then, each characters is recognized by template matching. Finally we measure recognition confidence scores for all the thresholds and choose the best one. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields accurate recognition for the container BIC-code with robustness to illumination change.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2022

This paper presents a pre-processing method to facilitate the container's BIC-code recognition. We propose a network that can find ROI(Region Of Interests) containing a BIC-code region and estimate a homography matrix for warping. Taking the structure of STN(Spatial Transformer Networks), the proposed network consists of next 3 steps, ROI detection, homography matrix estimation, and warping using the homography estimated in the previous step. It contributes to improving the accuracy of BIC-code recognition by estimating ROI and matrix using the proposed network and correcting perspective distortion of ROI using the estimated matrix. For performance evaluation, five evaluators evaluated the output image as a perfect score of 5 and received an average of 4.25 points, and when visually checked, 224 out of 312 photos are accurately and perfectly corrected, containing ROI.