scholarly journals License Plate Recognition

Author(s):  
B. Likith Ram ◽  
P. Naga Sai Teja ◽  
Y. Sai Avinash Kumar ◽  
Ch. Sai Raj

<p>License Plate Recognition (LPR) system is an application of computer vision and image processing technology that takes video of vehicles and take the vehicle frame as input image and by extracting their number plate from whole vehicle image, it displays the number plate information into text. The overall accuracy and efficiency of whole LPR system depends on number plate extraction phase as character segmentation and character recognition phases are also depend on the output of this phase. Higher be the quality of captured input vehicle image more will be the chances of proper extraction of vehicle number plate area. The approach used to segment the image is bilateral filtering algorithm and canny edge detection algorithm. Then we predict the license plate from processed image using py–tesseract OCR and match the retrieved text which is vehicle number plate with database. Finally we get the details of the particular vehicle from the database.</p>

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Bydaa Ali Hussain ◽  
Mohammed Sadoon Hathal

In recent years, there has been expanding development in the vehicular part and the number of vehicles moving on the road in all the sections of the country. Vehicle number plate identification based on image processing is a dynamic area of this work; this technique is used for security purposes such as tracking of stolen cars and access control to restricted areas. The License Plate Recognition System (LPRS) exploits a digital camera to capture vehicle plate numbers is used as input to the proposed recognition system. Basically, the developing system is consist of three phases, vehicle license plate localization, character segmentation, and character recognition, the License Plate (LP) detection is presented using canny Edge detection algorithm, Connect Component Analysis (CCA) have been exploited for segmenting characters. Finally, a Multi-Layer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network (MLPANN) model is utilized to recognize and detect the vehicle license plate characters, and hence the results are displayed as a text on GUI. The proposed system successfully identified and recognized multi_style Iraqi license plates using different image situations and it was evaluated based on different metrics performance, achieving an overall system performance of 91.99%. This results shows the effectiveness of the proposed method compared with other existing methods, whose average recognition rate is 86% and the average processing time of one image is 0.242s which proves the practicality of the proposed method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 760-762 ◽  
pp. 1638-1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Yu Chen ◽  
Bao Zhi Cheng ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
Fu Cheng Wang ◽  
Chen Zhang

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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 2623-2627
Author(s):  
Feng Ran ◽  
Fa Yu Zhang ◽  
Mei Hua Xu

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.


2013 ◽  
Vol 278-280 ◽  
pp. 1297-1300
Author(s):  
Zhong Yan Liu ◽  
Jian Yang ◽  
Hong Mei Nie

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 962-969
Author(s):  
Thi Ha Phan ◽  
Duc Chung Tran ◽  
Mohd Fadzil Hassan

This article will detail the steps to build and train the convolutional neural network (CNN) model for Vietnamese character recognition in educational books. Based on this model, a mobile application for extracting text content from images in Vietnamese textbooks was built using OpenCV and Canny edge detection algorithm. There are 178 characters classes in Vietnamese with accents. However, within the scope of Vietnamese character recognition in textbooks, some classes of characters only differ in terms of actual sizes, such as “c” and “C”, “o” and “O”. Therefore, the authors built the classification model for 138 Vietnamese character classes after filtering out similar character classes to increase the model's effectiveness.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (13) ◽  
pp. 3015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farman Ullah ◽  
Hafeez Anwar ◽  
Iram Shahzadi ◽  
Ata Ur Rehman ◽  
Shizra Mehmood ◽  
...  

The paper proposes a sensors platform to control a barrier that is installed for vehicles entrance. This platform is automatized by image-based license plate recognition of the vehicle. However, in situations where standardized license plates are not used, such image-based recognition becomes non-trivial and challenging due to the variations in license plate background, fonts and deformations. The proposed method first detects the approaching vehicle via ultrasonic sensors and, at the same time, captures its image via a camera installed along with the barrier. From this image, the license plate is automatically extracted and further processed to segment the license plate characters. Finally, these characters are recognized with the help of a standard optical character recognition (OCR) pipeline. The evaluation of the proposed system shows an accuracy of 98% for license plates extraction, 96% for character segmentation and 93% for character recognition.


Author(s):  
Imran Shafi ◽  
Imtiaz Hussain ◽  
Jamil Ahmad ◽  
Pyoung Won Kim ◽  
Gyu Sang Choi ◽  
...  

AbstractNon-standard license plates are a part of current traffic trends in Pakistan. Private number plates should be recognized and, monitored for several purposes including security as well as a well-developed traffic system. There is a challenging task for the authorities to recognize and trace the locations for the certain number plate vehicle. In a developing country like Pakistan, it is tough to have higher constraints on the efficiency of any license plate identification and recognition algorithm. Character recognition efficiency should be a route map for the achievement of the desired results within the specified constraints. The main goal of this study is to devise a robust detection and recognition mechanism for non-standard, transitional vehicle license plates generally found in developing countries. Improvement in the character recognition efficiency of drawn and printed plates in different styles and fonts using single using multiple state-of-the-art technologies including machine-learning (ML) models. For the mentioned study, 53-layer deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture based on the latest variant of object detection algorithm-You Only Look Once (YOLOv3) is employed. The proposed approach can learn the rich feature representations from the data of diversified license plates. The input image is first pre-processed for quality improvement, followed by dividing it into suitable-sized grid cells to find the correct location of the license plate. For training the CNN, license plate characters are segmented. Lastly, the results are post-processed and the accuracy of the proposed model is determined through standard benchmarks. The proposed method is successfully tested on a large image dataset consisting of eight different types of license plates from different provinces in Pakistan. The proposed system is expected to play an important role in implementing vehicle tracking, payment for parking fees, detection of vehicle over-speed limits, reducing road accidents, and identification of unauthorized vehicles. The outcome shows that the proposed approach achieves a plate detection accuracy of 97.82% and the character recognition accuracy of 96%.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 0909
Author(s):  
Bydaa Ali Hussain ◽  
Mohammed Sadoon Hathal

            In recent years, there has been expanding development in the vehicular part and the number of vehicles moving on the roads in all the sections of the country. Arabic vehicle number plate identification based on image processing is a dynamic area of this work; this technique is used for security purposes such as tracking of stolen cars and access control to restricted areas. The License Plate Recognition System (LPRS) exploits a digital camera to capture vehicle plate numbers is used as input to the proposed recognition system. Basically, the proposed system consists of three phases, vehicle license plate localization, character segmentation, and character recognition, the License Plate (LP) detection is presented using canny edge detection algorithm, Connect Component Analysis (CCA) have been exploited for segmenting characters. Finally, a Multi-Layer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network (MLPANN) model is utilized to identify and detect the vehicle license plate characters, and hence the results are displayed as a text on GUI. The proposed system successfully detects LP and recognizes multi-style Arabic characters with rates of 96% and 97.872% respectively under different conditions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.3) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Yong Gyu Jung ◽  
Hee Wan Kim

Background/Objectives: In order to recognize the license plates automatically, we design and implement a vehicle license plate recognition module that extracts characters of license plate area using open source OpenCV and Terreract OCR library.Methods/Statistical analysis: The static image was binarized using OpenCV 's banalization function. After binarizing the image by adjusting the pixel values between adjacent pixels, the candidate region judged a license plate was derived. The final candidate was derived according to the proposed algorithm in the candidate region. The extracted plate area was analyzed by using the Tesseract OCR library, and characters were extracted as a character string.Findings: The vehicle license plate recognition module relates to character recognition in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we designed and implemented a module that recognizes a license plate by using open source, applying a proposed algorithm to a moving object as a static image. The proposed module is a relatively lightweight software module and can be used in other applications. It is possible to install the camera at the entrance of the apartment and can read the license plate to identify whether it is a resident or not. When speeding and traffic violations occur on the highway, the vehicle numbers can be automatically stored and managed in the database. In addition, there is an advantage that it can be applied to various character recognition applications through modification of a slight algorithm in the module.Improvements/Applications: In addition to character recognition, the OpenCV library can be applied to various fields such as pattern recognition, object tracking, and motion recognition. Therefore, we will be able to create technologies corresponding to various services that are becoming automated and unmanned.  


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