The document describes an automatic number plate recognition system that could be implemented for Pakistan's traffic security. It discusses the components of an ANPR system including license plate capture cameras, recognition software, and a database. The goals are to reduce crime, monitor traffic flow, and control access at places like parking lots. It provides details on camera requirements, recognition process, use cases for ANPR, and a bibliography.

1. (PROJECT)
BBA - 6
Foundation University Institute of
Engineering And Management Sciences

2. SUBMITTED BY
 SAIFULLAH MALIK
 BILAL AHMAD
 IBRAHEEM ANSER
 RAHEEM ANSER
 KHALID RAZZAQ
 HUSSAIN UD DIN
SUBMITTED TO
 MR. WAQAS AHMAD
SUBMISSION DATE
 8/06/2010

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4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
 We at first bow our head before Allah Almighty who bestowed
his countless blessings upon us, guided us towards the way of
success, and blessed us with courage of facing problems and
obstacles. We have no words at our command to express our
deepest sense of gratitude of All Mighty Allah who enabled us
to complete our project against all odds.
 We wish to place our deep sense of thanks to MR. WAQAS
AHMAD who guided us to complete this project in its true sense.
His valuable experience and knowledge of the field removed
the difficulties at all crucial junctures. We acknowledge
untiring efforts of our teacher who has been a beacon of light
for us. He broadened our horizon by allowing us to research at
our own and gave us free will to right whatever we wanted to.

5. PROJECT
AUTOMATIC NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION
IMPLENTMENT ON
PAKISTAN TRAFFIC SECURITY SYSTEM

6. TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPICS TOPIC NO’S
Introduction
Main characteristics of information system
license plate capture camera
Aim
Objectives
Mission
Strategy
License plate recognition (LPR) system
License plate recognition (LPR) system
Why we need two cameras for traffic surveillance?
License plate recognition software
Anpr system
System components & how they work
Camera requirements
Features
Hardware
Use of anpr systems

7. APNR
ANPR (VARIOUS OTHER TERMS)
•Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR)
•Automatic vehicle identification (AVI)
•Car plate recognition (CPR)

8. •License plate recognition (LPR)
INTRODUCTION
A vehicle registration plate is a metal or plastic plate attached to a
motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes. The
registration identifier is a numeric or alphanumeric code that
uniquely identifies the vehicle within the issuing region’s database.
Eight types of license plates are used in Pakistan. Each province
and territory issues its own number plate; the federal government
issues number plates for foreign diplomats and vehicles owned by
the
military, police and federal departments (red for foreign diplomats
and green for the federal government.)Sindh’s number plates
are yellow with black letters and numbers for private vehicles and
Black number plates with white letters for commercial vehicles;
Islamabad, NWFP, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Balochistan

9. and Northern Areas have white number plates with black letters and
numbers
The number plates also have the province or territory’s name at the
bottom. In Punjab however, number plates can be of any color the
vehicle owner chooses, but the first 2 letters represent the city the
vehicle is registered in.
The same all over Punjab and has a sign and’ Punjab’ written on it,
while the white part
has the number of the vehicle. For example:
•RIZ 3725, is a vehicle registered in
•RIW1329, is a vehicle registered in
Rawalpindi, Punjab.

10. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF INFORMATION SYSTEM
LICENSE PLATE CAPTURE CAMERA
License plate capture cameras are a specialized form of CCTV camera
that has built in software that helps to identify and capture license
plates on still or moving vehicles. The intelligent traffic modes built
into these cameras allows the camera to compensate for speed,
weather, and headlight issues which all make it challenging to
capture a usable video that identifies license plates.
AIM
•To Reduce Crime and the Fear of Crime
•Reduce Burglaries
•Reduce Vehicle Crime
•Reduce shop theft

11. •Reduce damage and graffiti
•Reduce motorcycle / traffic related nuisance
OBJECTIVES
• ANPR – capitalising on what you already know
MISSION
Delivering superior knowledge at the point of decision
STRATEGY
•Work with Partner Agencies at National, Regional and Local Level
to Share Assets and Data, avoid Duplication and enhance
Operational Effectiveness

12. •Proactively maintain National support and momentum for ANPR
within the Police Service, partner agencies and Government
•Working with the ANPR industry, continue to develop and exploit
Technology to support ANPR activities.
•Promote the better collection, use and weeding of vehicle
intelligence to support ANPR activity, including utilization of
appropriate databases from other agencies
LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION (LPR) SYSTEM
CCTV Camera Pros license plate recognition (LPR) system, provides
high-resolution video monitoring and recording. Our License Plate
Recognition (LPR) system is an effective video surveillance and
parking lot monitoring solution. Many parking lots have a high
security risk rating. It is difficult for security personnel to monitor
isolated areas or levels of large lots. Most lots need effective digital
surveillance systems to provide live monitoring and continuous
recording. These video surveillance systems provide protection and
reassurance to customers and employees.

13. The license plate capture system activates the LPR recognition
process in two ways.
TWO WAYS PROCESS LPR RECOGNITION
• The first is via software video motion detection, which detects
vehicles passing through the camera and illumination zone.
• The second is by input / output activation, which triggers
recognition and recording upon I/O activation. The system
supports both camera overview and picture-in-picture modes
with ease of monitoring
WHY WE NEED TWO CAMERAS FOR TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE?
•The monochrome camera produces high-contrast license plate
images characterized by unmatched clarity.
•Simultaneously, a second camera captures color overview images of
vehicles for additional video evidence.
LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE

14. •The Geovision-LPR license plate recognition software features:
•High recognition rate
•High recognition speed: < 0.2 second
•Supports up to 8 I/O Trigger or 4 Motion Detection lanes
•Support image up to 720 x 480 (NTSC) providing higher accuracy
•Integrate with GV-series DVR capture cards
•Vehicle counter feature tracks number of vehicles
•Camera overview for vehicle or driver
The GeoVision GV-LPR license plate recognition software is an
effective video security and parking / traffic monitoring solution. To
provide security or allow access to customers and employees,
parking lots can integrate these high efficiency digital surveillance
systems with license plate recognition to enhance lots security and
surveillance efficiency. GV-LPR is used with GeoVision Surveillance
and License Plate Capture Cameras.
LPR (License Plate Recognition) is an image-processing technology
used to identify vehicles by their license plates. This technology is
used in various security and traffic applications, such as gated access-

15. control system. The GV-LPR license plate recognition system
provides high-resolution video monitoring and recording.
The system uses illumination (such as Infrared) and a license plate
capture camera to take the image of the front or rear of the vehicle,
then the GV-LPR license plate recognition software processes
analyzes the images and extracts the plate information. This data is
used for enforcement, data collection, and can be used to open a gate
if the car is authorized or keep a time record on the entry or exit for
automatic payment calculations.
The LPR system significant advantage is that the system can keep an
image record of the vehicle which is useful in order to fight crime and
fraud. An additional camera can focus on the driver face and save the
image for identification reasons.
GV-ANPR SYSTEM

16. SYSTEM COMPONENTS & HOW THEY WORK
A typical LPI/R system is comprised of a video image-acquisition
subsystem, a CPU for image processing and control, a hardware- or
software-based character recognition engine, and a storage or

17. transmission subsystem for electronically recording plate Contents
and data such as date ,time and location
SPECIFICATIONS
Illumination 0.05 LUX or
lower
CAMERA REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Resolution 480 Horizontal
Line
Auto Electronic Shutter
1 / 60 ~ 1 /
Auto White Balance Compensation Required
Backlight Compensation Required

18. FEATURES
•High recognition rate: 99% (at best performance)
•High recognition speed: < 0.2 second
•Support up to 8 I/O Trigger or 4 Motion Detection lanes
•Support Hardware Watchdog
•Support image up to 720 x 480 (NTSC) / 720 x 576 (PAL) providing
higher accuracy
•Integrate with GV-series DVR to retrieve video footage by license
plate number .
•Vehicle counter feature tracks number of vehicles remaining in the
parking lot by counting vehicles entering and exiting the gate
•Camera overview brings focuses on either the vehicle or the driver

19. •License plate recognition database are processed and stored in
Microsoft Access Database for easy and multiple applications
•Multiple recognition technology is applied until a recognition result
is reached
•Alarm will be triggered when an unauthorized or unrecognizable
vehicle is spotted
•Picture-in-Picture window provides camera overview and the last
recognized image
•Video or AVI file is used as recognition input source
•Digital watermark technology is applied to verify authenticity of
video clips
•Text overlay displays license plate numbers on recorded video
image
•Activate recognition by sensor triggers, video motion detection or
Hot Key
•Recognition result triggers I/O Relay or user-defined application
•Recognize and display license plate image registered in database
•Retrievable vehicle entry and exit records by license plate number

20. •JPEG format support allows approximately 2 million JPEG images
to be saved in a 160 GB HDD
•Auto recycle for image storage and database backup
HARDWARE
At the front end of any ANPR system is the imaging hardware which
captures the image of the license plates. The initial image capture
forms a critically important part of the ANPR system which, often
determines the overall performance.
License plate capture is typically performed by specialized cameras
designed specifically for the task.

21. Factors which pose difficulty for license plate imaging cameras
include speed of the vehicles being recorded, varying ambient
lighting conditions, headlight glare and harsh environmental
conditions. Most dedicated license plate capture cameras will
incorporate infrared illumination in order to solve the problems of
lighting and plate reflectivity.
USE OF ANPR SYSTEMS
•Section control, to measure average vehicle speed over longer
distances.
•Border crossings
•Filling stations to log when a motorist drives away without paying
for their fuel.
•Traffic management systems, which determine traffic flow using the
time it takes vehicles to pass two ANPR sites
•Drive Through Customer Recognition, to automatically recognize
customers based on their license plate and offer them their last
selection, improving service to the customer.
•To assist visitor management systems in recognizing guest vehicles

22. BIBLIOGRAPHY
www.google.com

23. www.cctvcameraspros.com