Informatics Institute faculty member Behçet Uğur Töreyin and Muhammet Sebul Beratoğlu' coauthored paper titled 'Vehicle License Plate Detector in Compressed Domain' has been published in 'IEEE Access'. 

DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3092938

Abstract:
Data compression techniques allow data size to be reduced prior to data transmission and involve decompression upon transfer. This study shows for the first time that license plate (LP) detection can be accomplished without full decompression of the encoded data. Therefore, by determining in advance which images are required for LP recognition, computational costs of the system can be reduced. The proposed approach is realized on High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) based compressed video sequences. Two methods are provided that generate images from HEVC attributes. Fully decoded pixel domain images are also generated for comparative purposes from the same encoded data. The YOLO V3 Tiny Object Detector is used in order to detect LPs in the generated images. EnglishLP, a public dataset, is used to interpret the findings in terms of speed and precision and for comparison with previous studies. An additional contribution of the paper is that a new compressed domain LP database has been created and made publicly available, comprising images captured by a commercial license plate recognition system. Using at least two-orders-of-magnitude less amount of data, the proposed compressed domain LP detector achieved similar precision and recall values to those of the state-of-the-art LP detection schemes tested on both datasets. Moreover, the proposed method results in more than 30% saving in inference time. The results suggest that the proposed method can be utilized for rapid video archive searching applications.

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  • List of Most Influential Scientists; Associate Professor. B. Uğur Töreyin (article by Dr. John PA Ioannidis, K. W. Boyack and J. Baas published in the journal PLOS Biology)
  • Beltus Nkwawir Wiysobunri, the best project award in the Science category, in the 2020 International Students Project Competition
  • Argenit company, of which Dr. Abdulkerim Çapar is among the founding partners, received the "National-International Supports" First Prize of ITU ARI Teknokent.
  • TÜBİTAK 2242 University Students Project Competition in Priority Areas: Istanbul region first place - Ahmet Burak Özyurt
  • Best Presentation Award at ICAT'18 Conference: Sena Efsun Cebeci, 2018
  • Tubitak Incentive Award; 2016 Assoc. Prof. Adem Tekin
  • “Technical Paper” and “Willis H. Carrier” Award by the American Heating, Cooling and Air Conditioning Association; 2016 Assist. Prof. Dr. H. Salih Erden
  • Science Heroes Association Young Scientist of the Year Award; 2016 Assoc. B. Uğur Töreyin Best Poster Award at PRACEdays 2016 conference; Samet Demir
  • ITU Most Successful Thesis Award; 2016 Hatice Gokcan

There is also a High Performance Computing Laboratory established with the support of the State Planning Organization within the Institute.