scholarly journals VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE DETECTION: A SURVEY

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarun Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
Image Processing Technique ◽  
License Plate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
License Plate Detection ◽  
Future Direction

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is an image processing technique that is used to extract the symbols (characters and digits) embedded on the number (license) plate to identify the vehicles. Huge numbers of ANPR techniques have been proposed by various researchers in the past. Most of the ANPR techniques are designed for restricted conditions due to the diversity of the license plate styles, environmental conditions etc. Not every technique is suited for all kinds of conditions. In general, the ANPR technique comprises of the following three stages; license plate detection (LPD); character segmentation; and character recognition. There exist a wide variety of techniques for carrying out each of the steps of the ANPR. Some score over others. This paper presents a State-of-the-Art survey of the various leading LPD techniques that exist today and an attempt has been made to summarize these techniques based on pros and cons and their limitations. Each technique is classified based on the features used at each stage of LPD. This survey shall help provide future direction towards the development of efficient and accurate techniques for ANPR. It shall also assist in identifying and shortlisting the methodologies that are best suited for the particular problem domain.

scholarly journals Real-time Automated Detection and Recognition of Nigerian License Plates via Deep Learning Single Shot Detection and Optical Character Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Kayode David Adedayo ◽  
Ayomide Oluwaseyi Agunloye
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
License Plate Detection ◽  
Detection And Recognition

License plate detection and recognition are critical components of the development of a connected Intelligent transportation system, but are underused in developing countries because to the associated costs. Existing license plate detection and recognition systems with high accuracy require the usage of Graphical Processing Units (GPU), which may be difficult to come by in developing nations. Single stage detectors and commercial optical character recognition engines, on the other hand, are less computationally expensive and can achieve acceptable detection and recognition accuracy without the use of a GPU. In this work, a pretrained SSD model and a tesseract tessdata-fast traineddata were fine-tuned on a dataset of more than 2,000 images of vehicles with license plate. These models were combined with a unique image preprocessing algorithm for character segmentation and tested using a general-purpose personal computer on a new collection of 200 automobiles with license plate photos. On this testing set, the plate detection system achieved a detection accuracy of 99.5 % at an IOU threshold of 0.45 while the OCR engine successfully recognized all characters on 150 license plates, one character incorrectly on 24 license plates, and two or more incorrect characters on 26 license plates. The detection procedure took an average of 80 milliseconds, while the character segmentation and identification stages took an average of 95 milliseconds, resulting in an average processing time of 175 milliseconds per image, or 6 photos per second. The obtained results are suitable for real-time traffic applications.

Application of Image Processing to the Vehicle License Plate Recognition

2013 ◽  
Vol 760-762 ◽  
pp. 1638-1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Yu Chen ◽  
Bao Zhi Cheng ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
Fu Cheng Wang ◽  
Chen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Engineering ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
License Plate ◽  
License Plate Recognition ◽  
Edge Extraction ◽  
Recognition Method ◽  
License Plate Location ◽  
Vehicle License Plate Recognition ◽  
Plate Location

At present, the traffic engineering and automation have developed, and the vehicle license plate recognition technology need get a corresponding improvement also. In case of identifying a car license picture, the principle of automatic license plate recognition is illustrated in this paper, and the processing is described in detail which includes the pre-processing, the edge extraction, the license plate location, the character segmentation, the character recognition. The program implementing recognition is edited by Matlab. The example result shows that the recognition method is feasible, and it can be put into practice.

Research and Design of License Plate Recognition System

2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 2623-2627
Author(s):  
Feng Ran ◽  
Fa Yu Zhang ◽  
Mei Hua Xu
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Complete System ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Morphological Processing ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
License Plate ◽  
License Plate Recognition ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

Introduce a complete system of license plate recognition: using morphological processing and priori knowledge of license plate to discern the location of license plate, accomplishing tilt correction through Radon transform, then fulfilling character segmentation of accurate positioning license plate by projection, finishing character recognition through BP neural network which was improved by the use of adaptive learning rate and momentum factor. With the programming and verification on Matlab experimental platform, experimental results show that we can have a preferable recognition speed and accuracy.

An Efficient Algorithm for License Plate Recognition

2013 ◽  
Vol 278-280 ◽  
pp. 1297-1300
Author(s):  
Zhong Yan Liu ◽  
Jian Yang ◽  
Hong Mei Nie
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
License Plate ◽  
License Plate Recognition ◽  
License Plate Location ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Plate Location

The license plate recognition(LPR) is the key technology in intelligent transportation system. This paper discusses the whole process of license plate recognition technology, include the license plate image preprocessing, license plate location, character segmentation and character recognition, and simulated it by MATLAB. The experimental result show this method can obtain good recognition effect.

scholarly journals Vehicle License Plate Detection and Perspective Rectification

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Musaed Alhussein ◽  
Khursheed Aurangzeb ◽  
Syed Irtaza Haider
Keyword(s):  
Correction Method ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Correction Algorithm ◽  
Vehicle Identification ◽  
Corner Points ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
License Plate Detection

The character segmentation and perspective rectification of Vehicle License Plate (VLP) is essential in different applications, including traffic monitoring, car parking, stolen vehicle recovery, and toll payment. The character segmentation of the VLP and its horizontal as well as vertical (pan and tilt) correction is a crucial operation. It has considerable impact on the precision of the vehicle identification process. In this work, we investigate an effective framework for the perspective rectification and homography correction of vehicle's images. The captured images of the vehicle could be tilted in vertical or horizontal or vertical-horizontal mix directions due to different movements. For reasonable high identification results, a polynomial fitting based homography correction method for rectifying the tilted VLPs is applied. A method for determining four corner points of the rotated VPLs is explored. These four detected corner points are applied in the homography correction algorithm. For comprehensively evaluating the performance of the proposed framework, the detected VLPs in various directions, such as horizontal, vertical, and mix horizontal-vertical, are rotated. For the experiments, the real images of the vehicles in the outdoor environment, from different directions and different distances are captured. With our proposed method, we achieve an accuracy of 97 % and 95 % for the simulated and real captured images, respectively.

scholarly journals AUTOMATIC NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION FOR DIFFERENT FONTS AND NON-ROMAN SCRIPT

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirad Varad Vinay ◽  
Indla Omkar Balaobaiah ◽  
Mujawar Sohail Mahiboob ◽  
Shinde Dinesh Nagnath ◽  
Prof. Darshana Patil
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Image Processing Technique ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Size Number ◽  
Roman Script

According to survey taken the total number of vehicles in [1] India were 260 million. Therefore, there is a need to develop Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems [1] in India because of the large number of vehicles travelling on the roads. [1] It would also help in proper tracking of the vehicles, traffic examining, finding stolen vehicles, supervising parking toll and imposing strict actions against red light breaching. Automatic number plate recognition is image processing technique for finding number plate from image and extracting characters from detected number plate. ANPR in India has always been challenging due to different lighting conditions, changes in fonts, shapes, angles, letters size, number of lines and padding between lines, different languages used. In our project we proposed a model that can detects number plate with considering all irregularities. this system uses Computer vision and machine learning technology in order to detect number plate from image. In our proposed system number plate can be of different fonts and non-roman script. For identification of characters from number plate we use OCR (Optical character recognition) technique. OCR involves two parts: Character segmentation and Character Recognition. This OCR system can be used to extract characters of different fonts and non-roman script. The Quality of OCR depends on the quality of image, image contrast, text font style and size. To improve quality of OCR we can use image processing technique to enhance quality of image.

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