This paper presents a solution for the license plate recognition problem in residential community administrations in China. License plate images are pre-processed through gradation, middle value filters and edge detection. In the license plate localization module the number of edge points, the length of license plate area and the number of each line of edge points are used for localization. In ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2008.12.006 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Y.-P. H (C.-H. Chen), [email protected] (Y.-T. Chang), frode License plate recognition techniques have been successfully applied to the management of stolen cars, management of parking lots and traffic flow control. This study proposes a license plate ba...

License Plate detection and recognition is a key technique in most of the traffic related applications such as searching of stolen vehicles, road traffic monitoring, airport gate monitoring, speed monitoring and Automatic parking access control. It is simply the ability to automatically extract and recognition of the vehicle license number plate’s character from a captured image. The License pl...

To solve the problem of multi-license plate location in road bayonet image, a novel approach was presented, which utilized plate’s color features, geometry characteristics and gray feature. Firstly, the RGB color image was converted to HSV color model and calculates the distance according to the plate’s color information in the color space. Secondly, the license plate candidate regions were seg...