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.

scholarly journals AUTOMATICS NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION USING CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORK

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-244
Author(s):  
Siddhartha Roy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Training Set ◽  
Optical Character

In the last few years, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems have become widely used for security, safety, and also commercial aspects such as parking control access, and legal steps for the red light violation, highway speed detection, and stolen vehicle detection. The license plate of any vehicle contains a number of numeric characters recognized by the computer. Each country in the world has specific characteristics of the license plate. Due to rapid development in the information system field, the previous manual license plate number writing process in the database is replaced by special intelligent device in a real-time environment. Several approaches and techniques are exploited to achieve better systems accuracy and real-time execution. It is a process of recognizing number plates using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on images. This paper proposes a deep learning-based approach to detect and identify the Indian number plate automatically. It is based on new computer vision algorithms of both number plate detection and character segmentation. The training needs several images to obtain greater accuracy. Initially, we have developed a training set database by training different segmented characters. Several tests were done by varying the Epoch value to observe the change of accuracy. The accuracy is more than 95% that presents an acceptable value compared to related works, which is quite satisfactory and recognizes the blurred number plate.

scholarly journals Barrier Access Control Using Sensors Platform and Vehicle License Plate Characters Recognition

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (13) ◽  
pp. 3015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farman Ullah ◽  
Hafeez Anwar ◽  
Iram Shahzadi ◽  
Ata Ur Rehman ◽  
Shizra Mehmood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
License Plate ◽  
License Plate Recognition ◽  
Ultrasonic Sensors ◽  
Optical Character

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.

scholarly journals A Real-Time Automatic Plate Recognition System Based on Optical Character Recognition and Wireless Sensor Networks for ITS

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Nicole do Vale Dalarmelina ◽  
Marcio Andrey Teixeira ◽  
Rodolfo I. Meneguette
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Identification System ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Smart Parking

Automatic License Plate Recognition has been a recurrent research topic due to the increasing number of cameras available in cities, where most of them, if not all, are connected to the Internet. The video traffic generated by the cameras can be analyzed to provide useful insights for the transportation segment. This paper presents the development of an intelligent vehicle identification system based on optical character recognition (OCR) method to be used on intelligent transportation systems. The proposed system makes use of an intelligent parking system named Smart Parking Service (SPANS), which is used to manage public or private spaces. Using computer vision techniques, the SPANS system is used to detect if the parking slots are available or not. The proposed system makes use of SPANS framework to capture images of the parking spaces and identifies the license plate number of the vehicles that are moving around the parking as well as parked in the parking slots. The recognition of the license plate is made in real-time, and the performance of the proposed system is evaluated in real-time.

An Accurate Real-Time License Plate Detection Method Based On Deep Learning Approaches

2021 ◽  
pp. 2160008
Author(s):  
Saeed Khazaee ◽  
Ali Tourani ◽  
Sajjad Soroori ◽  
Asadollah Shahbahrami ◽  
Ching Yee Suen
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
License Plate Detection

In vision-driven Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) where cameras play a vital role, accurate detection and re-identification of vehicles are fundamental demands. Hence, recent approaches have employed a wide range of algorithms to provide the best possible accuracy. These methods commonly generate a vehicle detection model based on its visual appearance features such as license plate, headlights, or some other distinguishable specifications. Among different object detection approaches, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have the advantage of magnificent detection accuracy in case a huge amount of training data is provided. In this paper, a robust approach for license plate detection (LPD) based on YOLO v.3 is proposed which takes advantage of high detection accuracy and real-time performance. The mentioned approach can detect the license plate location of vehicles as a general representation of vehicle presence in images. To train the model, a dataset of vehicle images with Iranian license plates has been generated by the authors and augmented to provide a wider range of data for test and train purposes. It should be mentioned that the proposed method can detect the license plate area as an indicator of vehicle presence with no Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithm to distinguish characters inside the license plate. Experimental results have shown the high performance of the system with a precision 0.979 and recall 0.972.

scholarly journals An Efficient Method for License Plate Detection and Recognition using OCR

2019 ◽  
pp. 540-547
Author(s):  
Aswathy Mani ◽  
Nisy John Panicker
Keyword(s):  
Efficient Method ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Intelligent Transport System ◽  
Density Filter ◽  
License Plate Detection ◽  
Filter Approach ◽  
Detection And Recognition

This paper presents an efficient method for license plate detection and recognition that will aid in the development of an intelligent transport system. To significantly accelerate license plate localization a simple image pre-processing method is first used without reducing detection performance compared with that obtained using original image. Line density filter approach is used to extract the license plate regions, there by significantly reducing area to be analysed for license plate localization. In license plate recognition, the characters are recognized from these detected license plates by using optical character recognition and the owner details are displayed. The aim of this paper is to serve the purpose of accurately localizing vehicle license plates from complex scenes in real time that would help motor vehicle department in various ways.

CNN-based Rain Reduction in Street View Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-81
Author(s):  
Simone Zini ◽  
Simone Bianco ◽  
Raimondo Schettini
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Street View ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Bad Weather ◽  
Detection And Recognition

Rain removal from pictures taken under bad weather conditions is a challenging task that aims to improve the overall quality and visibility of a scene. The enhanced images usually constitute the input for subsequent Computer Vision tasks such as detection and classification. In this paper, we present a Convolutional Neural Network, based on the Pix2Pix model, for rain streaks removal from images, with specific interest in evaluating the results of the processing operation with respect to the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) task. In particular, we present a way to generate a rainy version of the Street View Text Dataset (R-SVTD) for "text detection and recognition" evaluation in bad weather conditions. Experimental results on this dataset show that our model is able to outperform the state of the art in terms of two commonly used image quality metrics, and that it is capable to improve the performances of an OCR model to detect and recognise text in the wild.

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