Character Segmentation in a License Plate Using Histogram Specification based on Anisotropic Soothing Filter

Anisotropic Smoothing Filter 기반 Histogram Specification을 이용한 번호판 문자분할 기법

This paper presents a new method of segmenting characters in a car licence plate which is less influenced by illumination variation. It uses an anisotropic filter to reduce the lighting noise and a histogram specification scheme to obtain the binary image. Anisotropic smoothing filter process the input images, which are acquired under different lighting conditions, so that they may have similar image quality. The enhanced performance of the proposed algorithm has been proved by the experiment.