Recognition Design of License Plate and Car Type Using Tesseract Ocr and Emgucv

The goal of the research is to design and implement software that can recognize license plates and car types from images. The method used for the research is soft computing using library of EmguCV. There are four phases in creating the software, i.e., input image process, pre-processing, training processing and recognition. Firstly, user enters the car image. Then, the program reads and does pre-processing the image from bitmap form into vector. The next process is training process, which is learning phase in order the system to be able recognize an object (in this case license plate and car type), and in the end is the recognition process itself. The result is data about the car types and the license plates that have been entered. Using simulation, this software successfully recognized license plate by 80.223% accurate and car type 75% accurate

Quantifying Mechanical Properties of Automotive Steels with Deep Learning Based Computer Vision Algorithms

This paper demonstrates that the instrumented indentation test (IIT), together with a trained artificial neural network (ANN), has the capability to characterize the mechanical properties of the local parts of a welded steel structure such as a weld nugget or heat affected zone. Aside from force-indentation depth curves generated from the IIT, the profile of the indented surface deformed after the indentation test also has a strong correlation with the materials’ plastic behavior. The profile of the indented surface was used as the training dataset to design an ANN to determine the material parameters of the welded zones. The deformation of the indented surface in three dimensions shown in images were analyzed with the computer vision algorithms and the obtained data were employed to train the ANN for the characterization of the mechanical properties. Moreover, this method was applied to the images taken with a simple light microscope from the surface of a specimen. Therefore, it is possible to quantify the mechanical properties of the automotive steels with the four independent methods: (1) force-indentation depth curve; (2) profile of the indented surface; (3) analyzing of the 3D-measurement image; and (4) evaluation of the images taken by a simple light microscope. The results show that there is a very good agreement between the material parameters obtained from the trained ANN and the experimental uniaxial tensile test. The results present that the mechanical properties of an unknown steel can be determined by only analyzing the images taken from its surface after pushing a simple indenter into its surface

Automatic vehicle identfication for Argentinean license plates using intelligent template matching

The problem of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) has been studied from different aspects since the early 90s. Efficient approaches have been recently developed, particularly based on the features of the license plate representation used in different countries. This paper focuses on a novel approach to solving the ANPR problem for Argentinean license plates, called Intelligent Template Matching (ITM). We compare the performance obtained with other competitive approaches to robust pattern recognition (such as artificial neural networks), showing the advantages both in classification accuracy and training time. The approach can also be easily extended to other license plate representation systems different from the one used in Argentina.Fil: Gazcón, Nicolás Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación. Instituto de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación; ArgentinaFil: Chesñevar, Carlos Iván. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación. Instituto de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación; ArgentinaFil: Castro, Silvia Mabel. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Ciencias e Ingenieria de la Computacion. Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo en Visualización yComputación Gráfica; Argentin

Developing Arabic License Plate Recognition System Using Artificial Neural Network and Canny Edge Detection

في السنوات الأخيرة، كان هناك تطور مستمر في مجال تطبيق المركبات وعدد المركبات التي تتحرك على الطرق في جميع أنحاء البلاد. يعتبر تحديد رقم لوحة السيارة العربية بناءً على معالجة الصور مجالًا ديناميكيًا لهذا العمل ، وتم استخدام هذه التقنية لأغراض أمنية مثل تتبع السيارات المسروقة والتحكم في الوصول إلى المناطق المحظورة. يستخدم نظام تمييز اللوحات المرورية الكاميرا الرقمية لالتقاط صورة للسيارة متضمنة لوحة المرور وتعتبر كمدخل لنظام التعرف المقترح. يتكون النظام المقترح من ثلاث مراحل، تحديد لوحة ترخيص السيارة، تقسيم الاحرف والارقام الموجودة في الصورة الاساسية الى صور صغيرة تحتوي على (حرف– رقم) كلا على حدة ، والتعرف على الأحرف، يتم تحديد لوحة الرخصة  (LP) باستخدام خوارزمية كاني في الكشف على الحواف، وقد تم استخدام Connect Component Analysis (CCA) لتقسيم الحروف⸲ وأخيرًا يتم استخدام نموذج الشبكة العصبية الاصطناعية المتعددة الطبقات للتعرف على الرموز الموجودة في كل صورة، وبالتالي يتم عرض النتائج كنص على واجهة المستخدم الرسومية. وحقق النظام المقترح أداءً إجماليًا يبلغ 96 ٪ و 97.872 ٪  في تحديد لوحات المرور المتعددة الانماط والتعرف على الرموز العربية الموجودة في اللوحات على التوالي وفي ظل ظروف مختلفة.            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

Multiclassification of license plate based on deep convolution neural networks

In the classification of license plate there are some challenges such that the different sizes of plate numbers, the plates' background, and the number of the dataset of the plates. In this paper, a multiclass classification model established using deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify the license plate for three countries (Armenia, Belarus, Hungary) with the dataset of 600 images as 200 images for each class (160 for training and 40 for validation sets). Because of the small numbers of datasets, a preprocessing on the dataset is performed using pixel normalization and image data augmentation techniques (rotation, horizontal flip, zoom range) to increase the number of datasets. After that, we feed the augmented images into the convolution layer model, which consists of four blocks of convolution layer. For calculating and optimizing the efficiency of the classification model, a categorical cross-entropy and Adam optimizer used with a learning rate was 0.0001. The model's performance showed 99.17% and 97.50% of the training and validation sets accuracies sequentially, with total accuracy of classification is 96.66%. The time of training is lasting for 12 minutes. An anaconda python 3.7 and Keras Tensor flow backend are used