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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2019.12.011

A Novel Least Square and Image Rotation based Method for Solving the Inclination Problem of License Plate in Its Camera Captured Image  

Wu, ChangCheng (Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security)
Zhang, Hao (Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security)
Hua, JiaFeng (Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security)
Hua, Sha (Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security)
Zhang, YanYi (Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security)
Lu, XiaoMing (Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security)
Tang, YiChen (Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.13, no.12, 2019 , pp. 5990-6008 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recognizing license plate from its traffic camera captured images is one of the most important aspects in many traffic management systems. Despite many sophisticated license plate recognition related algorithms available online, license plate recognition is still a hot research issue because license plates in each country all round the world lack of uniform format and their camera captured images are often affected by multiple adverse factors, such as low resolution, poor illumination effects, installation problem etc. A novel method is proposed in this paper to solve the inclination problem of license plates in their camera captured images through four parts: Firstly, special edge pixels of license plate are chosen to represent main information of license plates. Secondly, least square methods are used to compute the inclined angle of license plates. Then, coordinate rotation methods are used to rotate the license plate. At last, bilinear interpolation methods are used to improve the performance of license plate rotation. Several experimental results demonstrated that our proposed method can solve the inclination problem about license plate in visual aspect and can improve the recognition rate when used as the image preprocessing method.
Keywords
inclination; license plate; rotation; least square method;
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