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License plate localization based on statistical measures of license plate features
— License plate localization is considered as the most important part of license
plate recognition system. The high accuracy rate of license plate recognition is depended on
the ability of license plate detection. This paper presents a novel method for license plate
localization bases on license plate features. This proposed method consists of two main
processes. First, candidate regions extraction step, Sobel operator is applied to obtain
vertical edges and then potential candidate regions are extracted by deploying mathematical
morphology operations [5]. Last, license plate verification step, this step employs the
standard deviation of license plate features to confirm license plate position. The
experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve high quality license plate
localization results with high accuracy rate of 98.26 %
Empirical Study of Car License Plates Recognition
The number of vehicles on the road has increased drastically in recent years. The license plate is an identity card for a vehicle. It can map to the owner and further information about vehicle. License plate information is useful to help traffic management systems. For example, traffic management systems can check for vehicles moving at speeds not permitted by law and can also be installed in parking areas to se-cure the entrance or exit way for vehicles. License plate recognition algorithms have been proposed by many researchers. License plate recognition requires license plate detection, segmentation, and charac-ters recognition. The algorithm detects the position of a license plate and extracts the characters. Various license plate recognition algorithms have been implemented, and each algorithm has its strengths and weaknesses. In this research, I implement three algorithms for detecting license plates, three algorithms for segmenting license plates, and two algorithms for recognizing license plate characters. I evaluate each of these algorithms on the same two datasets, one from Greece and one from Thailand. For detecting li-cense plates, the best result is obtained by a Haar cascade algorithm. After the best result of license plate detection is obtained, for the segmentation part a Laplacian based method has the highest accuracy. Last, the license plate recognition experiment shows that a neural network has better accuracy than other algo-rithm. I summarize and analyze the overall performance of each method for comparison
A Fast Vertical Edge Detection Algorithm for Car License Plate Detection
Recently, License Plate Detection (LPD) has been used in many applications
especially in transportation systems. Many methods have been proposed in order to
detect license plates, but most of them worked under restricted conditions, such as
fixed illumination, stationary background, and high resolution images. LPD plays an
important role in Car License Plate Recognition (CLPR) system because it affects the
system's accuracy.
This thesis aims to propose a fast vertical edge detector using Vertical Edge Detection
Algorithm (VEDA) and to build a Car License Plate Detection (CLPD) method.
Pre-processing step is performed in order to enhance and initialize the input image for
the next steps. This step is divided into three processes: First, the color image
conversion to a gray scale image. Second, an adaptive thresholding is used in order to constitute a binarized image. Third, Unwanted Lines Elimination Algorithm (ULEA)
is used in order to enhance the image. The next step is to extract the vertical edges
from the 352x288 resolution image by using VEDA. This algorithm is based on the
contrast between the values in the binarized image. VEDA is proposed in order to
enhance the CLPD method computation time. After the vertical edges have been
extracted by VEDA, a morphological operation is used to highlight the vertical details
in the image. Next, candidate regions are extracted. Finally, the license plate area is
detected.
This thesis shows that VEDA is faster than Sobel operator; the results reveal that
VEDA is faster than Sobel by about 5-9 times, this range depends on the image
resolution. The proposed CLPD method can efficiently detect the license plate area.
The method shows the total time of processing one 352x288 image is 47.7 ms, and it
meets the requirement of real time processing. Under the experiment datasets, which
were taken from real scenes, 579 from 643 images are successfully detected. The
average accuracy of car license plate detection is 90%. For more evaluation and
comparison purposes, the proposed CLPD method is compared with a similar
Malaysian license plate detection method, which is CAR Plate Extraction Technology
(CARPET). This comparison reveled that the CLPD method is more efficient than
CARPET and also has more detection rate
Region-based license plate detection
Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) is one of the most important aspects of applying computer techniques towards intelligent transportation systems. In order to recognize a license plate efficiently, however, the location of the license plate, in most cases, must be detected in the first place. Due to this reason, detecting the accurate location of a license plate from a vehicle image is considered to be the most crucial step of an ALPR system, which greatly affects the recognition rate and speed of the whole system. In this paper, a region-based license plate detection method is proposed. In this method, firstly, mean shift is used to filter and segment a color vehicle image in order to get candidate regions. These candidate regions are then analyzed and classified in order to decide whether a candidate region contains a license plate. Unlike other existing license plate detection methods, the proposed method focuses on regions, which demonstrates to be more robust to interference characters and more accurate when compared with other methods. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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