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Mobile Phone Based Vehicle License Plate Recognition for Road Policing
Identity of a vehicle is done through the vehicle license plate by traffic
police in general. Au- tomatic vehicle license plate recognition has several
applications in intelligent traffic management systems. The security situation
across the globe and particularly in India demands a need to equip the traffic
police with a system that enables them to get instant details of a vehicle. The
system should be easy to use, should be mobile, and work 24 x 7. In this paper,
we describe a mobile phone based, client-server architected, license plate
recognition system. While we use the state of the art image processing and
pattern recognition algorithms tuned for Indian conditions to automatically
recognize non-uniform license plates, the main contribution is in creating an
end to end usable solution. The client application runs on a mobile device and
a server application, with access to vehicle information database, is hosted
centrally. The solution enables capture of license plate image captured by the
phone camera and passes to the server; on the server the license plate number
is recognized; the data associated with the number plate is then sent back to
the mobile device, instantaneously. We describe the end to end system
architecture in detail. A working prototype of the proposed system has been
implemented in the lab environment.Comment: 7 pages; PReMI Experiential Workshop, Delh