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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTB.2007.14-B.2.081

Recognition of Chinese Automobile License Plates  

Ahn, Young-Joon (국방과학연구소)
Wee, Kyu-Bum (아주대학교 정보 및 컴퓨터공학부)
Hong, Man-Pyo (아주대학교 정보 및 컴퓨터공학부)
Abstract
We implement automobile license plates recognition system. These days automobile license plate recognition systems are widely used for tracing stolen cars. managing parking facilities, ticketing speeding cars, and so on. Recognition systems largely consist of three parts plates extraction, segments extraction, and segment recognition. For plates extraction, we measure the degree of inclination of plate. We use filters that extract only the horizontal components of the front of an automobile to measure the degree of inclination. For segment extraction, we trace the change of the number of blocks that consist solely of foreground pixels or background pixels as the horizontal scanning line moves along upward. For recognition of each individual letter or digit, we devise a variant of template matching method, called comparative template matching. Through experiments, we show that comparative template matching is less prone misled by noises and exhibits higher performance compared to the traditional method of template matching or histogram based recognition.
Keywords
Automobile License Plates; License Plates Recognition;
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