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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieek.2013.50.8.187

Learning-based Detection of License Plate using SIFT and Neural Network  

Hong, Won Ju (Division of Electronic & Information Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
Kim, Min Woo (Division of Electronic & Information Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
Oh, Il-Seok (Division of Computer Science & Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.50, no.8, 2013 , pp. 187-195 More about this Journal
Abstract
Most of former studies for car license plate detection restrict the image acquisition environment. The aim of this research is to diminish the restrictions by proposing a new method of using SIFT and neural network. SIFT can be used in diverse situations with less restriction because it provides size- and rotation-invariance and large discriminating power. SIFT extracted from the license plate image is divided into the internal(inside class) and the external(outside class) ones and the classifier is trained using them. In the proposed method, by just putting the various types of license plates, the trained neural network classifier can process all of the types. Although the classification performance is not high, the inside class appears densely over the plate region and sparsely over the non-plate regions. These characteristics create a local feature map, from which we can identify the location with the global maximum value as a candidate of license plate region. We collected image database with much less restriction than the conventional researches. The experiment and evaluation were done using this database. In terms of classification accuracy of SIFT keypoints, the correct recognition rate was 97.1%. The precision rate was 62.0% and recall rate was 50.2%. In terms of license plate detection rate, the correct recognition rate was 98.6%.
Keywords
License Plate; Learning; Local Descriptor; SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform); Neural Network;
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