Fig. 1 overall system architecture.
Fig. 2. Flowchart of enhancement algorithm.
Fig. 3. Flowchart of plate detection method.
Fig. 4. Outputs of Plate detection system (a) Original Images (b) Enhanced images (c) Detected plate.
Table 2. Comparison with conventional Methods.
Table. 3 Detection Accuracy
Table 1. Enhancement algorithm.
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