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This document summarizes an article from the International Journal of Research in Advent Technology that proposes an enhanced automatic license plate recognition system. The system aims to overcome issues with existing ALPR techniques like uneven illumination and poor image quality. It develops an ALPR system with four main stages: image acquisition, license plate extraction, license plate segmentation, and character recognition. A key contribution is a methodology to enhance images by eliminating illumination issues before processing, which improves accuracy. The document reviews related literature on existing ALPR techniques and compares their advantages and disadvantages. It then describes the proposed system and experimental results demonstrating its effectiveness at license plate recognition.
A License plate is a rectangular plate which is alphanumeric. The license plate is fixed on the vehicle and used to identify the
vehicle along with honor of that vehicle. There is a huge nos. of vehicles are on the road word wile so that traffic control and
vehicle owner identification has become a major problem.
The automatic number plate reorganization (ANPR) is one of the solutions of such kind of problem. There is nos. of methodologies
but it is challenging task as some of the factors like high speed of vehicles, languages of number plate & mostly non-uniform
letter on number plate effects a lot in recognition. The license plate recognition (LPR) system have many application like payment
of parking fees; toll fee on highway; traffic monitoring system; border security system; signal system etc.
In this paper, the different method of license plate recognition is discussed. The systems first detects the vehicle and capture the
image then the number plate of vehicle is extracted from the image using image Segmentation optical character recognition technique
is used for the character recognition. Then the resulting date is compared with the database record so we come up the information
like the vehicle’s owner, vehicle registration place, address etc. it is observed that developed system successfully defect
& recognize the vehicle number plate on real image.
The document summarizes research on license plate recognition (LPR) systems. It discusses how LPR works by using computer vision algorithms to detect vehicle license plates in images and then perform optical character recognition (OCR) to read the characters. The key steps involve preprocessing images using techniques like grayscale conversion and edge detection. Contour detection is then used to localize the license plate region. Character segmentation and recognition follows using methods like neural networks. The document reviews various existing LPR techniques and algorithms reported in other research papers. It then outlines the objectives and methodology of LPR, including preprocessing, binarization, edge detection with filters, contour detection to extract plates, and OCR to read characters. Python is used to demonstrate an
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A License plate is a rectangular plate which is alphanumeric. The license plate is fixed on the vehicle and used to
identify the vehicle along with honor of that vehicle. There is a huge number of vehicles on the road so that traffic
control and vehicle owner identification has become a major problem.
The automatic number plate reorganization (ANPR) is one of the solutions of such kind of problem. There are
different methodologies but it is challenging task as some of the factors like high speed of vehicles, languages of
number plate & mostly non-uniform letter on number plate effects a lot in recognition. The license plate recognition
system mainly has four stages: image acquisition, license plate detection, character segmentation and character
recognition. The license plate recognition (LPR) system have many applications like payment of parking fees; toll
fee on the highway; traffic monitoring system; border security system; signal system etc.
In this paper, template matching algorithm for character recognition is used. The system presented here mainly
focuses on recognition of ambiguous characters based on position of the character. It is observed that the developed
system successfully detects & recognizes the vehicle number plate on real images and the problem of recognizing
ambiguous character is solved.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
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License plate recognition (LPR) is one of the most important applications of applying computer techniques towards intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In order to recognize a license plate efficiently, location and extraction of the license plate is the key step. Hence finding the position of a license plate in a vehicle image is considered to be the most crucial step of an LPR system, and this in turn greatly affects the recognition rate and overall speed of the whole system. This paper mainly deals with the detecting license plate location issues in Indian traffic conditions. The vehicles in India sometimes bare extra textual regions such as owner’s name, symbols, popular sayings and advertisement boards in addition to license plate. Situation insists for accurate discrimination of text class and fine aspect ratio analysis. In addition to this additional care taken up in this paper is to extract license plate of motorcycle (size of plate is small and double row plate), car (single as well as double row type), transport system such as bus, truck, (dirty plates) as well as multiple license plates present in an image frame under consideration. Disparity of aspect ratios is a typical feature of Indian traffic. Proposed method aims at identifying region of interest by performing a sequence of directional segmentation and morphological processing. Always the first step is of contrast enhancement, which is accomplished by using sigmoid function. In the subsequent steps, connected component analysis followed by different filtering techniques like aspect ratio analysis and plate compatible filter technique is used to find exact license plate. The proposed method is tested on large database consisting of 750 images taken in different conditions. The algorithm could detect the license plate in 742 images with success rate of 99.2%.
This document summarizes an article from the International Journal of Research in Advent Technology that proposes an enhanced automatic license plate recognition system. The system aims to overcome issues with existing ALPR techniques like uneven illumination and poor image quality. It develops an ALPR system with four main stages: image acquisition, license plate extraction, license plate segmentation, and character recognition. A key contribution is a methodology to enhance images by eliminating illumination issues before processing, which improves accuracy. The document reviews related literature on existing ALPR techniques and compares their advantages and disadvantages. It then describes the proposed system and experimental results demonstrating its effectiveness at license plate recognition.
A License plate is a rectangular plate which is alphanumeric. The license plate is fixed on the vehicle and used to identify the
vehicle along with honor of that vehicle. There is a huge nos. of vehicles are on the road word wile so that traffic control and
vehicle owner identification has become a major problem.
The automatic number plate reorganization (ANPR) is one of the solutions of such kind of problem. There is nos. of methodologies
but it is challenging task as some of the factors like high speed of vehicles, languages of number plate & mostly non-uniform
letter on number plate effects a lot in recognition. The license plate recognition (LPR) system have many application like payment
of parking fees; toll fee on highway; traffic monitoring system; border security system; signal system etc.
In this paper, the different method of license plate recognition is discussed. The systems first detects the vehicle and capture the
image then the number plate of vehicle is extracted from the image using image Segmentation optical character recognition technique
is used for the character recognition. Then the resulting date is compared with the database record so we come up the information
like the vehicle’s owner, vehicle registration place, address etc. it is observed that developed system successfully defect
& recognize the vehicle number plate on real image.
The document summarizes research on license plate recognition (LPR) systems. It discusses how LPR works by using computer vision algorithms to detect vehicle license plates in images and then perform optical character recognition (OCR) to read the characters. The key steps involve preprocessing images using techniques like grayscale conversion and edge detection. Contour detection is then used to localize the license plate region. Character segmentation and recognition follows using methods like neural networks. The document reviews various existing LPR techniques and algorithms reported in other research papers. It then outlines the objectives and methodology of LPR, including preprocessing, binarization, edge detection with filters, contour detection to extract plates, and OCR to read characters. Python is used to demonstrate an
Automatic License Plate Recognition Using Optical Character Recognition Based...IJARIIE JOURNAL
A License plate is a rectangular plate which is alphanumeric. The license plate is fixed on the vehicle and used to
identify the vehicle along with honor of that vehicle. There is a huge number of vehicles on the road so that traffic
control and vehicle owner identification has become a major problem.
The automatic number plate reorganization (ANPR) is one of the solutions of such kind of problem. There are
different methodologies but it is challenging task as some of the factors like high speed of vehicles, languages of
number plate & mostly non-uniform letter on number plate effects a lot in recognition. The license plate recognition
system mainly has four stages: image acquisition, license plate detection, character segmentation and character
recognition. The license plate recognition (LPR) system have many applications like payment of parking fees; toll
fee on the highway; traffic monitoring system; border security system; signal system etc.
In this paper, template matching algorithm for character recognition is used. The system presented here mainly
focuses on recognition of ambiguous characters based on position of the character. It is observed that the developed
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Vehicle plate recognition is a successful image processing technique used to recognize vehicles' plate numbers. There are several applications for this method which enlarge through many fields and attention groups. Vehicle plate recognition may be considered as an advertising equipment, for the purpose of traffic and border securities for law enforcement, and travel. Many methods have been accompanied to make this technique easy. This learning proposes an edge-detection method to allow a Plate Recognition System of a vehicle through the practical situations like the various environmental or meteorological conditions. Image processing tools are used to examine the plate area, resize it, and change it on the way to a gray scale earlier to filtering of the image in order to remove the unwanted areas. The obtained objects is processed in such a way that the number plate image and the information related to that is completely perfect The information of the obtained image is processed through the average deviation of the Gaussian filter (sigma).
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This paper proposes algorithms to localize vehicle
number plates from natural background
images, to segment the characters from the localize
d number plates and to recognize the
segmented characters. The reported system is tested
on a dataset of 560 sample images
captured with different background under various il
luminations. The performance accuracy of
the proposed system has been calculated at each sta
ge, which is 97.1%, 95.4% and 95.72% for
localisation & extraction, character segmentation a
nd character recognition respectively. The
proposed method is also capable of localising and r
ecognising multiple number plates in
images.
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1. Localization of the number plate using binarization combining global and local thresholding, followed by connected component analysis to filter noise.
2. Character segmentation using projection profiles and an approximation algorithm to separate characters from the plate.
3. Character recognition using SVM to classify segmented characters into letter and number classes.
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different Structuring Elements (SE) are used to maximally
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Analysis. Correlation based template matching technique is
used for recognition of characters. This system is
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Automatic Number Plate Recognition System A Histogram Based ApproachJoe Osborn
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This document presents a histogram-based approach for automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) using MATLAB. The proposed methodology involves 4 main steps: 1) image acquisition and pre-processing, 2) dilation, 3) horizontal and vertical edge processing to generate histograms, and 4) filtering, segmentation, and region of interest extraction to isolate the number plate region. The algorithm is tested on images with different lighting conditions, tilts, and backgrounds, and is able to accurately recognize plates in all cases. The histogram-based approach aims to reduce computational complexity compared to other ANPR methods.
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This document summarizes and compares different techniques for license plate recognition, including artificial neural networks, radial basis function neural networks, and template matching. It reviews past research on using these techniques for license plate detection, character segmentation, and character recognition. The document also analyzes the pros and cons of license plate recognition methods that use RBF neural networks and template matching.
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1) Training a dataset of license plate images using YOLOv4, a real-time object detection system, to detect license plates and generate bounding boxes around them with 92% accuracy.
2) Applying image processing techniques like grayscale conversion, Gaussian blurring, thresholding, and morphological operations to segment characters from the detected license plates.
3) Recognizing the characters using Tesseract OCR after pre-processing, achieving 81% accuracy on character recognition.
The proposed approach obtains high accuracy on license plate detection and character
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Automated License Plate Recognition for Toll Booth ApplicationIJERA Editor
This document describes an automated license plate recognition system that can be used for toll booth applications. It analyzes images of vehicles to detect and recognize their license plates for automated payment of tolls. The system uses image processing techniques like thresholding, edge detection and template matching to locate and extract the license plate from an image. It then recognizes the characters on the plate using a neural network and compares it to databases to obtain vehicle information. The key steps involve preprocessing the image, segmenting the license plate region, extracting and enhancing the characters, and recognizing the plate number. This automated system allows contactless and real-time processing of vehicles for toll payment and has applications in traffic management and security control.
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Automatic Number Plate Recognition System
(ANPR): A Survey
Chirag Patel
Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai
Patel Institute of Computer
Applications (CMPICA)
Charotar University of Science
and Technology(CHARUSAT)
Dipti Shah, PhD.
G. H. Patel P.G. Department of
Computer Science
S. P. University
Atul Patel, PhD.
Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai
Patel Institute of Computer
Applications (CMPICA)
Charotar University of Science
and Technology(CHARUSAT)
ABSTRACT
Traffic control and vehicle owner identification has become
major problem in every country. Sometimes it becomes
difficult to identify vehicle owner who violates traffic rules
and drives too fast. Therefore, it is not possible to catch and
punish those kinds of people because the traffic personal
might not be able to retrieve vehicle number from the moving
vehicle because of the speed of the vehicle. Therefore, there is
a need to develop Automatic Number Plate Recognition
(ANPR) system as a one of the solutions to this problem.
There are numerous ANPR systems available today. These
systems are based on different methodologies but still it is
really challenging task as some of the factors like high speed
of vehicle, non-uniform vehicle number plate, language of
vehicle number and different lighting conditions can affect a
lot in the overall recognition rate. Most of the systems work
under these limitations. In this paper, different approaches of
ANPR are discussed by considering image size, success rate
and processing time as parameters. Towards the end of this
paper, an extension to ANPR is suggested.
Keywords
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), Artificial
Neural Network (ANN), Character Segmentation Image
Segmentation, Number Plate, Optical Character Recognition
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Automatic Number Plate
Recognition (ANPR)
In last few years, ANPR or license plate recognition (LPR)
has been one of the useful approaches for vehicle surveillance.
It is can be applied at number of public places for fulfilling
some of the purposes like traffic safety enforcement,
automatic toll text collection [1], car park system [2] and
Automatic vehicle parking system [3]. ANPR algorithms are
generally divided in four steps: (1) Vehicle image capture (2)
Number plate detection (3) Character segmentation and (4)
Character recognition. As it is shown in Fig.1, the first step
i.e. to capture image of vehicle looks very easy but it is quite
exigent task as it is very difficult to capture image of moving
vehicle in real time in such a manner that none of the
component of vehicle especially the vehicle number plate
should be missed. Presently number plate detection and
recognition processing time is less than 50 ms [4] in many
systems. The success of fourth step depends on how second
and third step are able to locate vehicle number plate and
separate each character. These systems follow different
approaches to locate vehicle number plate from vehicle and
then to extract vehicle number from that image. Most of the
ANPR systems are based on common approaches like
artificial neural network (ANN) [5], [1],[6],[7][8], [9], [10],
Probabilistic neural network (PNN) [11], Optical Character
Recognition (OCR)[5], [12], [2], [13], [7], [14], Feature
salient [15], MATLAB[16], Configurable method[17], Sliding
concentrating window (SCW)[14],[8], BP neural network[18],
support vector machine(SVM)[19], inductive learning [20],
region based [21], color segmentation [22], fuzzy based
algorithm [23], scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) [24],
trichromatic imaging, Least Square Method(LSM) [25],[26],
online license plate matching based on weighted edit distance
[27] and color-discrete characteristics [28]. A case study of
license plate reader (LPR) is well explained in [29]. Some
authors focus on improving resolution of the low-resolution
image by using technique called super resolution [30], [31].
Sometimes it becomes necessary to assess the quality of
ANPR system. In [9], a quality assessment of visual and
ANPR is well explained. A comprehensive study of License
plate recognition (LPR) is well presented in [4]. Throughout
this literature, number plate and license plate are used
interchangeably. Details about each ANPR are discussed in
section 2.
Fig.1. Conventional ANPR system
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1.2 Scope of this paper
As it is not possible to judge which approach is better,
different papers, which are based on steps mentioned in Fig.1,
are surveyed and categorized based on the methodologies in
each approach. For each approach whenever available
parameters like speed, accuracy, performance, image size and
platform are reported. Commercial product survey is beyond
the scope of this paper as sometimes these products claims
more accuracy than actual for promotional purposes.
Remainder of this paper is divided as follows: Section 2
contains survey of different techniques to detect number plate.
Character segmentation methods are reviewed in section 3 and
section 4 contains discussion about character recognition
methods. The paper concludes with the discussion of what is
not implemented and what kind of research is possible in
ANPR.
2. NUMBER PLATE DETECTION
Most of the number plate detection algorithms fall in more
than one category based on different techniques. To detect
vehicle number plate following factors should be considered:
(1). Plate size: a plate can be of different size in a vehicle
image.
(2). Plate location: a plate can be located anywhere in the
vehicle.
(3). Plate background: A plate can have different background
colors based on vehicle type. For example a government
vehicle number plate might have different background than
other public vehicles.
(4). Screw: A plate may have screw and that could be
considered as a character.
A number plate can be extracted by using image segmentation
method. There are numerous image segmentation methods
available in various literatures. In most of the methods image
binarization is used. Some authors use Otsu’s method for
image binarization to convert color image to gray scale image.
Some plate segmentation algorithms are based on color
segmentation. A study of license plate location based on color
segmentation is discussed in [22]. In the following sections
common number plate extraction methods are explained,
which is followed by detailed discussion of image
segmentation techniques adopted in various literature of
ANPR or LPR.
2.1 Image binarization
Image binarization is a process to convert an image to black
and white. In this method, certain threshold is chosen to
classify certain pixels as black and certain pixels as white. But
the main problem is how to choose correct threshold value for
particular image. Sometimes it becomes very difficult or
impossible to select optimal threshold value. Adaptive
Thresholding can be used to overcome this problem. A
threshold can be selected by user manually or it can be
selected by an algorithm automatically which is known as
automatic thresholding.
2.2 Edge detection
Edge detection is fundamental method for feature detection or
feature extraction. In general case the result of applying edge
detection of algorithm is an object boundary with connected
curves. It becomes very difficult to apply this method to
complex images as it might result with object boundary with
not connected curves. Different edge detection algorithm /
operators such as Canny, Canny-Deriche, Differential, Sobel,
Prewitt and Roberts Cross are used for edge detection.
2.3 Hough Transform
It is a feature extraction technique initially used for line
detection. Later on it has been extended to find position of
arbitrary shape like circle or oval. The original algorithm was
generalized by D.H. Ballard [32].
2.4 Blob detection
Blob detection is used to detect points or regions that differ in
brightness or color as compared to surroundings. The main
purpose of using this approach is to find complimentary
regions which are not detected by edge detection or corner
detection algorithms. Some common blob detectors are
Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG), Difference of Gaussians (DoG),
Determinant of Hessian (DoH), maximally stable extremal
regions and Principle curvature based region detector.
2.5 Connected Component Analysis
(CCA)
CCA or blob extraction is an approach to uniquely label
subsets of connected components based on a given heuristic.
It scans binary image and labels pixel as per connectivity
conditions of current pixel such as North-East, North, North-
West and West of the current pixel (8-connectivity). 4-
connectivity is used for only north and west neighbour of
current pixel. The algorithm gives better performance and it is
very useful for automated image analysis. This method can be
used in plate segmentation as well as character segmentation.
2.6 Mathematical morphology
Mathematical morphology is based on set theory, lattice
theory, topology, and random functions. It is commonly
applicable to digital image but can be used in other spatial
structures also. Initially it was developed for processing
binary images and then extended for processing gray scale
functions and images. It contains basic operators such as
Erosion, dilation, opening, closing.
2.7 Related work in number plate
detection
The methods discussed in preceding sections are
common methods for plate detection. Apart from these
methods, various literature discussed method for plate
detection. As most of the methods discussed in these
literatures use more than one approach, it is not possible to do
category wise discussion. Different number plate
segmentation algorithms are discussed below.
In [5], for faster detection of region of interest
(ROI) a technique called sliding concentric window (SCW) is
developed. It is a two step method contains two concentric
windows moving from upper left corner of the image. Then
statistical measurements in both windows were calculated
based on the segmentation rule which says that if the ratio of
the mean or median in the two windows exceeds a threshold,
which is set by the, then the central pixel of the windows is
considered to belong to an ROI. The two windows stop
sliding after the whole image is scanned. The threshold value
can be decided based on trial and error basis. The connected
component analysis is also used to have overall success rate of
96%. The experiment was carried out on Pentium IV at 3.0
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GHz with 512-MB RAM and took 111ms of processing time
for number plate segmentation.
Another SCW based system is presented in [8] for
locating Korean number plate. After applying SCW on
vehicle image authors used HSI color model for color
verification and then tilt was corrected by using least square
fitting with perpendicular offsets (LSFPO). The distance
between camera and vehicle varies from 3 to 7 meters.
A cascade framework was used in [33] for
developing fast algorithm for real time vehicle number plate
detection. In this framework a compact frame detection
module is used to segment number plate. This module
contains three steps: First - Generation of Plate Region
Candidates which is used to reject non plate regions by using
gradient features. Second – Extraction of complex plate
regions which contains three steps to identify plate region and
reject non plate regions. Third – plate verification is used to
make sure that no non plate regions are extracted in preceding
steps. The experiment was carried out on 3-GHz Intel Pentium
4 personal computer.
To detect multi-style number plate a configurable
method is proposed in [17]. For detecting different style of
number plates, a user can configure the algorithm by changing
parameter value in the number plate detection algorithm. The
authors define four parameters mainly:
Plate rotation angle- to rotate number at certain angle
plate if it is skewed which is shown in fig. 2(a).
Character line number – to determine whether
characters are spanned in more than one line or
column as shown in fig. 2(b). The algorithm works for
maximum three lines.
Recognition models – to determine whether number
plate contains alphabets only, alphabets and digits or
alphabet, digits and symbols.
Character formats – To classify the number plate
characters based on their type. For example, Symbols
can be represented as S, Alphabets can be represented
as A and digits can be represented as D. So the number
in fig.2, can be represented as AADAADDDD.
The algorithm was executed on Pentium IV 3.0GHz.
To locate Indian number plate, a feature based
number plate localization is proposed in [34]. The authors use
Otsu’s method to convert gray scale images into binary
images. It is a seven-step procedure to extract number plate
without any background image from vehicle image.
In [15] a feature salient method is used to extract
vehicle number plate by using salient features like shape,
texture and color. The authors used Hough transform (HT) to
detect vertical and horizontal lines from rectangular vehicle
number plate and then processed it by converting red, green,
blue (RGB) to hue-intensity-saturation(HIS). Finally, the
number plate is segmented. This algorithm is executed on
Pentium-IV 2.26-GHz PC with 1 GB RAM using MATLAB.
An Improved bernsen algorithm is used in [19] for
license plate location. This algorithm is used for the
conditions like uneven illumination and particularly for
shadow removal. The authors used local Otsu, global Otsu,
and differential local threshold binary methods for good
accuracy. By using this algorithm, shadow was removed and
license plate was successfully detected, which was not
possible with the traditional bernsen algorithm. The
experiment was carried out on Windows XP Operating system
Intel Core 1.8 GHz central processing unit and 1.5 GB RAM.
The algorithm was developed using Visual C++.
To locate Chinese number plate Hui Wu and Bing
Li [35] proposed a method to find horizontal and vertical
difference to find exact rectangle with vehicle number. The
Authors converted vehicle image into gray scale and then
applied automatic binarization using MATLAB. Any further
detail regarding number plate detection algorithm is not
mentioned in this paper. The authors claim to have average
recognition rate of 0.8s.
To extract license plate characters in Indian
condition Ch.Jaya Lakshmi et al. [16] proposed a novel
approach which is based on texture characteristics and
wavelets [36]. The authors also used morphological operation
[37] for better performance in complicated background. Sobel
mask is used to detect vertical edges. The system was
implemented using MATLAB. A Sobel edge detector operator
is also used in [38].
To detect license plate from CCTV footage,
M.S.Sarfraz et al.[39] proposed a novel approach for efficient
localization of license plates in video sequence and the use of
a revised version of an existing technique for tracking and
recognition. The authors proposed a novel solution for
adjusting varying camera distance and diverse lighting
conditions. License plate detection is a four step procedure
including finding contours and connected components,
selection of rectangle region based on size and aspect ratio,
initial learning for adaptive camera distance/height,
localization based on histogram, gradient processing, and
nearest mean classifier. After processing these steps final
detection result is forwarded for tracking.
In [6], canny edge detector operator was applied
to find out the transition points. As per H.Erdinc Kocer et al a
license plate contains white background and black character
normally. The Canny edge detector uses a filter, which is then
based on Gaussian smoothing’s first derivative to eliminate
the noise. Then in the next step, the edge strength is calculated
by considering the gradient of the image. The canny edge
detector operator used 3 X 3 matrix to accomplish this task.
Based on this information transition points region is
determined. The edge map is used to find transition points
between black and white colors. The further technical details
of this algorithm are not mentioned. The vehicle images were
captures from CCD camera.
(a) Skewed image (b) Number plate with lines
Fig. 2. Vehicle number plate with first two parameters
as per [17]
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For detecting number plates of different countries
Ankush Roy et al. [7] presented improved segmentation
algorithm. The number plate segmentation algorithm is a four
step procedure including median filtering, adaptive
thresholding, component labeling and region growing and
segmentation and normalization to remove noise, for
binarization of image, to label the pixel according to color
value and to segment the plate of 15 X 15 pixel size. The
authors used Otsu’s method for image binarization in the
adaptive thresholding process. The overall success rate of
system is mentioned but success rate of number plate
detection rate is not mentioned in this paper.
In [14], global edge features and local Haar-like
features are proposed for real-time traffic video. License plate
detection is accomplished by moving a scanning window
around the vehicle image. The scanning windows is
categorized a license plate region and non license plate region
based on the pre-defined classifier. In the training phase, six
cascade classifier layers are constructed for future processing.
In the testing phase, local Haar-like features and global
features are extracted. Haar-like features are the digital image
features generally used for object segmentation. These
features are generally collection of functions to find number
of rectangles covering adjacent image regions. Global features
include edge density and edge density variable. These features
are calculated by using fix size of sample image i.e. 48 X 16
which is scaled in training phase. The experiment was carried
out on a PC with Pentium 2.8 GHz CPU. The average
processing time for segmentation was 0.204s. Another edge
based number plate segmentation algorithm is presented in
[38].
A weighted statistical method is applied in [18].
Before processing further, authors converted 24 bit color
image into gray scale image. In the weighted statistical
method, a 2D image matrix of N rows and M columns is
prepared. Then weighting operation is applied to the modified
image matrix prepared after adding weights. As per Zhigang
Zhanga et al. standard license plate length and breadth
proportion is 3.14:1. More implementation details regarding
this method are not mentioned in this paper. Similar method is
proposed in [40].
To detect license plate in varying illumination
conditions a novel approach is presented in [41]. A
binarization method is used as pre-processing step for plate
segmentation. In this approach, the author divided small
window region in the image and applied dynamic thresholding
method to each region. As per Naito, T et al. [41], this method
is very robust for a local change in brightness of an image.
Then binarized image is labelled and segmented as per the
algorithm mentioned in this paper. The algorithm works for
Japanese number plate but it is not clear that whether it can be
applied for other countries. The experiment environment and
processing time are not mentioned.
In [42] a novel approach based on vector
quantization (VQ) is discussed. As per Zunino, R, most
approaches focus on candidate regions like edge, contract etc
in segmentation process. It might segment non plate regions
rather than plate regions. So VQ based approach is able to
solve this problem. As per this paper a license plate is
assumed be a rectangular box and each rectangle regions are
considered as stripes. By using four-step codebook algorithm,
a license plate is segmented. The system was developed
under C++ language with Intel Pentium board running at 200
MHz having Windows NT operating system. The overall
processing time including acquisition, location and OCR is
about 200ms.
In [43], license plate character extraction for video
is discussed. As per Cui, Yuntao, localization of license plate
means finding text in the images. The authors assumed license
plate with light background and characters with dark back
ground. To do localization, spatial variance method is used for
finding text regions and non text regions as high variance
means text region and low variance means non text region.
In [44] DT-CNN and classifier combining based
VIPUR system (Vehicle Identification on PUblic Roads) is
described. The system does automatic recognition of license
plate for toll collection. The input is 8 bit gray scale image. As
per Ter Brugge, M.H. et al. a license plate is rectangle area
containing number of dark characters. To determine license
plate region, greyness and texture features are applied to each
pixel. To extract greyness feature DT-CNN is used which
mentions that a 1 value indicates gray value and -1 indicates
color of pixel is outside of the gray value. By using gray value
a frequency table is prepared. Based on this table a value
range is defined. The authors mentioned that gray value of
most of the license plate characters ranges from 0.1 to 0.57.
For texture feature a 3 X 3 Sobel operator is applied to each
pixel to construct histogram. Most of the license plate pixels
have absolute Sobel value more than 0.73. Then by using a
two layer DT-CNN a 3 X 3 matrix is prepared, which is
remitted to the next step for further processing. Next step is
dimension based objection selection for locating license plate
regions. In this method non plate regions are removed by
considering weak size constraints minimum height, maximum
height, minimum width and maximum width. This is done by
four DT-CNNs. Finally one union and two subtraction
operators are used for getting segmented license plate region.
In [45], pre-processing, segmentation and
verification are used for number plate localization of car. In
the pre-processing the global Thresholding is used to map
color intensity into gray scale. In plate’s vertical boundary
detection stage, Robert’s edge operator is used to emphasize
vertical edges. The authors assumed two points: plates are
oriented horizontally and there is a significant intensity
difference between plate background and character
foreground. A horizontally oriented rank-filter of size M × N
pixels is moved alongside with the image. Then by using
vertical projection is used to detect plate’s vertical boundaries.
Sometimes the plate is skewed as shown in fig. 2(a). To
eliminate skew position in a number plate a Randon
Transform (RT) function is used in conjunction with Dirac’s
delta function. Horizontal boundaries are detected by using
series of morphological erosions with horizontally oriented
structured elements are applied. Finally two step verification
procedure is used. In the first step, the global binarization is
done via Otsu’s algorithm. The authors assumed dark
characters with light background for this purpose. In the
second step, the authors compared binarization threshold with
the plate intensity median. As per Shapiro et al. probability of
detecting number plate is higher when the intensity median of
the plate zone is greater than the threshold. After passing all
the test number plate is approved successfully. If any of the
tests fails then current plate region is rejected and the system
goes back to the segmentation stage to search for the another
plate region. After maximum number of iteration if system is
not able to find plate region then an algorithm is stopped and
error message is issued. The average processing time for
single image was 0.4s on 3 GHz Pentium processor with a
varying distance of 3 to 10m from camera to vehicle.
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A dynamic programming based plate
segmentation algorithm is proposed in [46]. The authors
discussed problem of plate segmentation and provided
different approach to solve it. Similar approach is proposed in
[47]. The authors used multiple thresholds method to extract
candidate regions. The authors used segmented blobs to
provide geometric constraints for numeric characters of a
number plate. So it is not required use any image features
likes edges, colors, or lines. The experiments were carried out
on on a desktop computer equipped with an Intel Core-Duo
3.0GHz CPU. The authors used Adaboost [48] algorithm with
OpenCV to train. It took 0.5s to detect and locate number
plate. The system is mainly used to detect Korean number
plate characters.
In [49], a fuzzy discipline based approach is
proposed for number plate segmentation. In license plate
locating module, the authors considered number plates having
colors white, black, red and green. The edge detector
algorithm is sensitive to only black-white, red-white and
green-white edges. The transformation from RGB to HIS is
used based on the formula given in this paper. After that
different edge maps are formed, a two stage fuzzy aggregator
is used to integrate these maps. After that plate candidates are
determined based on the integrated map. By using color edge
detector, fuzzy maps and fuzzy aggregation the candidate
region is located. Before remitting number plate for further
processing binarization, connected component and noise
removal is applied to it. The algorithm was executed on
Pentium - IV 1.6 GHz PC. It took around 0.4s to locate all the
possible license plate regions.
A novel future fusion approach is proposed in
[50]. The authors converted color image into gray scale by
using multiple thresholds and Otsu’s threshold. The authors
used different approaches such as deterministic approach:
pixel voting, probabilistic approach: global binarization,
probabilistic approach: local binarization and combination
among these approaches to locate the license plate.
In [51], to detect license plate candidate region
verification process is proposed. It consists of verification of
lower part, upper part and vertical border.
In [52], a cognitive and video-based approach is
proposed. As per Thome et al. license plate detection
approach falls in two groups: appearance based and gradient
methods. The appearance based approach depends on color or
texture feature to separate license plate from background.
Gradient based approach is used for high contrast license
plate. The authors used gradient-based strategy for license
plate detection. Each frame is thus processed to localize areas
with a high vertical gradient density. A vertical Sobel mark
filter is applied after contour enhancement. The pixels are
identified as text or non text area by using final labelling.
Then connected component analysis (CCA) is applied on
binary map to extract set of N candidates for license plate.
The experiment was carried out on Pentium processor with
2.66GHz with 512MB RAM. The software was developed
using Microsoft Visual studio 2005 without code
optimization. Processing time for license plate detection was
15ms.
An inductive learning RULE-3 based system is
proposed in [20]. RULE-3 is a simple algorithm containing
several steps for extracting objects having certain attributes.
Recognition of number plate contains four steps such as
finding edges which are contained in letter,
Recognizing the letter using an extracted set of rules,
Applying previous steps to all characters contained in the
number plate being processed and Recognize number plate by
bringing all characters used together.
In [23], fuzzy-based algorithm is applied. To extract
license plate region a four step method is implemented. In the
first step noise is eliminated from the input image. Edge
detection is used in second step of find rectangle area of
candidate region. In the third step, based on size, histogram
and other information invalid rectangle areas are discarded. In
the last step geometric rectification is used to obtain license
plate candidate region. As these steps need some addition
processing, authors used fuzzy-based algorithm containing
several steps to extract license plate with more accuracy. The
system was developed on TI DM642 600 MHz/32 MB RAM
with C language under CCStudio V3.1 environment. The
overall average processing time was ~418.81ms.
Number plate can be detected based on color, edge
and other features. An edge-based color-aided method is
discussed in [53]. For image enhancement intensity variance
and edge density methods are proposed. After applying
intensity variance and edge density methods, license plate
detection process is executed. The plate detection involves
several steps. Vertical edge density estimation is used to avoid
missing plate edges due to bad lighting. In the next step a
Gaussian mixture is used to emphasize the constancy of
intensity values within plate region, along horizontal
direction. Then 80% threshold value is used to detect
candidate region. Finally morphological processing and color
analysis of candidate regions are used to segment license
plate. The system was developed using MATLAB on Pentium
3.0 GHz. The overall average processing time was ~1.36s.
A probabilistic neural network (PNN) based
approach is presented in [11]. The PNN algorithm works on
gray scale image. Bottom-Hat filtering is used to enhance the
potential plate regions. To separate the object of interest from
background a thresholding is employed for binarization of the
gray level image. Because of varying lighting conditions,
brightness levels may vary and some adaptation is necessary.
To perform it Otsu's Thresholding technique is used as it is
adaptive in nature. Each segment of the binary image is
labelled according to color of each segment to enable
classification. The plate extraction is done calculating the
Column Sum Vector (CSV) and its local minima. The
algorithm was executed on Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor
CPU P8400 (2.26GHz, 2267 MHz). The plate recognition
processing time was 0.1s.
In [24], a robust and reliable SIFT based method is
used to describe local feature of a number plate. As per
Morteza Zahedi et al., the set of features extracted from the
training images must be robust to changes in image scale,
noise and illumination in order to perform reliable
recognition. The more details regarding license plate
recognition are not mentioned in this paper.
A MATLAB based system is proposed in [54]. The
authors used pre-processing step to convert color image into
binary based on the equation presented in this paper. Then by
using adaptive median filter, vehicle images gray stretch and
vehicle images gradient sharpening a license plate is
extracted.
In [28], a trichromatic imaging and color-discrete
characteristic approach is used to locate license plate. As per
Xing Yang et al. number plates from 105 countries are
composed of 11 combinations such as : (1) cyan–black; (2)
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cyan–white; (3) black–red; (4) black–white; (5) blue–white;
(6) white–red; (7) white–green; (8) yellow–black; (9) yellow–
blue; (10) yellow–green; and (11) yellow–red. Based on this
information, authors divided six groups of RGB components.
Then authors derived several trichromatic functions and a
binarized image is obtained. In the next step, de-noising and
searching are used to locate license plate finally. The system
was Intel Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, and 1-GB memory. The overall
average processing time was 57ms.
Image segmentation techniques such as color
texture based [55], coarse-to-fine strategy[56], wrapper based
approach[57], content based image retrieval [58], dynamic
region merging [59], Dual Multiscale Morphological
Reconstructions and Retrieval Applications [37], background
recognition and perceptual organization [60], niching particle
swarm optimization [61], constraint satisfaction neural
network [62], two stage self organizing network [63],
adaptive local thresholds [64], vectorial scale-based fuzzy-
connected image segmentation [65], mixed deterministic and
Monte-Carlo [66], evaluation matrix based image
segmentation [67], neutrosophic set and wavelet
transformation [36], non linear distance matrix [68], shape-
prior based image segmentation with intensity-based image
registration [69] and least squares support vector machine
(LS-SVM) [70] can be useful for object detection. In [71],
survey of different image segmentation techniques is
discussed. The authors focused on different unsupervised
methods. Some of these methods such as [56], [36] and [70]
can be applicable to number plate detection. The method
discussed in [56] can be useful to detect multiple objects from
the image. It is more suitable for segmentation of multiple
vehicle number plates from the traffic image. The work
Table 1. Number plate detection rate and image size
Ref Image size Success
Rate (in %)
Ref Image Size Success
Rate (in %)
[5] 1024 X 768 96,5 [43] 40 X 280 Not reported
[33] 640 X 480 Not reported [44] 640 X 480 Not reported
[17] 720 X 576
1920 X
1280
90,1 [45] Not reported 81,20
[34] Not
reported
87 [49] 640 X 480
768 X 512
97,9
[15] 640 X 480 97,3 [47] 692 X 512 97,14(Four Characters)
[13] 236 X 48 Not reported [50] 480 X 640 61,36(Pixel voting)
90,65 (Global Thresholding)
78,26 (Local Thresholding)
93,78 (Combination of global and local
binarization)
[19] 640 X 480 97,16 [51] 1300 X 1030 92,31
[39] 360 X 288
to
1024 X 768
94 [52] 640 X 480 98,3
[6] 220x50 98,82 [21] 324 X 243 97,6
[14] 648 × 486 96,4 [23] 720 X 576
768 X 576
Not reported
[8] 640 X 480 89 [53] 640 X 480 ~75,17
[41] 640 X 480 Not reported [11] 384 X 288 91
[42] 768 X 256 87,6 [28] 600 X 330
768 X 576
94,7
[38] 640 X 480 Not reported
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presented in [46], [72] lack description and clarity regarding
technical details of number plate segmentation algorithm, A
Comparative study of image segmentation techniques and
object matching using segmentation is well explained in
[73].
2.8 Discussion
In most of the literatures, the number plate segmentation
algorithms work in restricted conditions like illumination,
number plate shape (generally rectangle), size, distance from
camera and vehicle and color. It is to be noted that only few
algorithms work for real-time video image of a number plate
[33], [30],[39], [51], [61], otherwise static image of number
plate is remitted to ANPR for further processing. In Table 1,
different plate segmentation detection success rate against
plate resolution of different ANPR is depicted. The systems in
which image size and success rate of number plate detections
are not mentioned, are not included in Table 1. It is observed
that plate segmentation processing time is ranged from 15ms
to 1360ms. The lower processing time of 15ms was reported
in [52] while higher processing time of 1360 was reported in
[53]. It is evident that number plate detection rate affects
character segmentation and character recognition which in
turn affects overall recognition rate. Based on the study of
several literature presented in this section, it can be concluded
that Image binarization, Sliding concentric window (SCW),
Sobel operator, Canny-edge operator, Connected component
analysis(CCA), Hough Transform (HT), Fuzzy discipline
based approach, Probabilistic neural network (PNN) and
trichromatic imaging with color-discrete characteristic
approach can provide promising result for number plate
segmentation.
In order to proceed with character recognition,
further image processing in the form of character
segmentation is required, which is discussed in the next
section.
3. CHARACTER SEGMENTATION
After locating number plate, characters are examined for the
further process. As with the plate segmentation there are
various methods available for conducting character
segmentation. As many methods fall in more than one
category it is not possible to do category wise discussion. In
this section common related work in this area followed by
discussion is discussed. Some methods such as image
binarization and CCA are already discussed in Section 2 can
also be applied to character segmentation.
3.1 Related work in character
segmentation
In [5], the candidate region is cropped in 78 X 228
pixels by using bicubic interpolation and then subjected to
SCW for segmentation. The authors used threshold value of
0.7 for optimization of the results. After the character
segmentation process, each character is resized to pixel size of
9 X 12.
Prathamesh Kulkarni et al. [34] conclude that blob
coloring and peak-to-valley methods are not suitable for
Indian number plate. The authors proposed image scissoring
algorithm in which a number plate is vertically scanned and
scissored at the row where there is no white pixel and this
information is stored in the matrix. In case of more than one
matrix, a false matrix is discarded based on the formula given
in this paper. Same process is repeated for horizontal direction
by taking width as a threshold.
CCA is very useful technique for processing binary
image. In [19] horizontal and vertical correction and image
enhancement are performed as pre-processing steps for
character segmentation. CCA is used in horizontal and
vertical correction. After performing these steps plate is
transformed to black characters / white background and then
resized to 100 X 200. Then all the characters are segmented to
the unique size of 32 X 32. In [44] image binarization and
connected component labelling methods are used
In [16], three matrices are used to storing plate
location and binarization, number of columns in BW and
number of row in BW respectively. Then after precise
location of top and bottom boundaries are detected, which are
followed by vertical projection and Thresholding to segment
the characters.
H.Erdinc Kocer [6] used contrast extension,
median filtering and blob coloring methods for character
segmentation. Contrast extension is used to make image
sharp. As per H.Erdinc Kocer the histogram equalization is a
popular technique to improve the appearance of a poor
contrasted image. In median filtering unwanted noisy regions
are removed. Blob coloring method is applied to binary image
to detect closed and contact less regions. In this method, an L
shaped template is used to scan image from left to right and
top to bottom. This scanning process is used to determine the
independent regions by obtaining the connections into four
directions from zero valued background. The four directional
blob coloring algorithm is applied to the binary coding license
plate image for extracting the characters. At the end of this
process the numbers are segmented in the size of 28 X 35 and
letters are segmented in the size of 30 X 40. Another
algorithm based on blob detection is proposed in [14]. The
character segmentation process consists of character height
estimation, character width estimation and blob extraction.
Character height estimation contains three parts: color reverse,
vertical edge detection and horizontal projection histogram.
Color reverse is used to make color of license plate characters
as black by using statistical analysis of edges. Vertical edge
detection is used to detect finalized number plate. Sobel mask
and image binarization algorithms are used to perform it.
Horizontal projection histogram is used to find top and bottom
boundary of a character. The distance between upper and
lower boundaries is considered as height of a character.
Character width estimation contains: image binarization and
vertical projection histogram. Image binarization is used to
make color as black and white. Vertical projection is used to
find gaps between characters. The process is similar as
horizontal projection. Blob extraction is a two- step procedure
including Blob detection and blob checking algorithms. The
blob detection algorithm is an extension of CCA. Blob
checking is used to remove non blob characters from the
segmented characters.
In [45], character clipper is used to separate
character in rectangle box. Then by using feature extractor,
classifier, post processor and training phases each character is
segmented.
In [25], an improved projection method (IPM) is
proposed. The authors mentioned a three step procedure for
character segmentation. In first step horizontal, vertical and
compound tilts are corrected. Then in second steps auxiliary
lines are drawn in between first and last character to detected
connected boundaries. In the final step the characters are
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segmented after removing noise. The experiment was carried
out using MATLAB 6.5 using VC++ 6.0.
As per Thome, Nicolas et al. [52] connected component
labelling is accurate but might result in failure because of
single mis-labelled pixel error. The authors also concluded
that histogram projection is more robust but it is less accurate.
They used connected component labelling method to
preliminary set of contours.
Vertical and horizontal histogram methods are used in [11].
To determine the boundaries of characters, column sum
vectors are used. Based on the algorithm two adjacent
characters are separated in two.
3.2 Discussion
Character segmentation is very important in order to perform
character recognition with good amount of accuracy.
Sometimes character recognition is not possible due to error
in character segmentation. In some literature of ANPR,
character segmentation is not discussed with details. Some
methods such as image binarization, CCA, vertical and
horizontal projection can produce better results of character
segmentation.
4. CHARACTER RECOGNITION
As discussed in Section 2, character recognition helps in
identifying and converting image text into editable text. As
most of the number plate recognition algorithms use single
method for character recognition. In this section, each method
is explained.
4.1 Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) sometimes known as neural
network is a mathematical term, which contains
interconnected artificial neurons. Several algorithms such as
[5], [6], [7], [8], [18], [52], [11], [10] are based on ANN. In
[5] two layer probabilistic neural network with the topology
of 180-180-36. The character recognition process was
performed in 128ms. In [6] multi layered perceptron (MLP)
ANN model is used for classification of characters. In
contains input layer for decision making, hidden layer to
compute more complicated associations and output layer for
resulting decision. Feed forward back-propagation (BP)
algorithm was used to train ANN. BP neural network based
systems are proposed in [8], [18], [10] with the processing
time of 0.06s, in [27]. In [46], HNN is applied to reduce
ambiguity between the similar characters e.g. 8 and B, 2 and Z
etc. The authors claim to have more than 99% recognition
rate.
4.2 Template matching
Template matching is useful for recognition of fixed sized
characters. It can be also used for detection of objects
generally in face detection and medical image processing. It
is further divided in two parts: feature based matching and
template based matching. Feature based approach is useful
when template image has strong features otherwise template
based approach can be useful. In [34] statistical feature
extraction method is applied for achieving 85% of character
recognition rate. In [15], several features and extracted and
salient is computed based on training characters. A linear
normalization algorithm is used to adjust all characters with
uniform size. The recognition rate of 95.7% is achieved
among 1176 images. An SVM based approach is used for
feature extraction of Chinese, Kana and English, Numeric
characters. The authors achieved success rate of 99.5%,
98.6%, and 97.8% for numerals, Kana, and address
recognition respectively. A template based approach is
proposed in [16]. The authors used low-resolution template
matching method to work with lower resolution image such as
4 X 8. The authors used similarity function to measure
similarity between patterns.
4.3 Other methods
In some algorithms character recognition is done by the
available Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool. There
are numerous software available for OCR processing. One of
the open source OCR tools with multilingual supported is
Tesseract [74], [75], which is maintained by Google and
available at [76]. It is used in [14] for character recognition.
The author modified it to achieve 98.7% of character
recognition rate. In [43] authors model extraction of
characters as Markov Random Fields (MRF) where the
randomness is used to model the uncertainty in the assignment
of the pixels. Character extraction is done as the optimization
problem based on prior knowledge to maximize a posteriori
probability. Then a greedy mutation operator is used to reduce
computation cost. The method proposed in [49] consists of
three steps: character categorization, topological sorting and
self organizing (SO) recognition. Character categorization is
used to classify character as alphabet or number. In second
step topological features of input character are computed and
compared with already stored character templates.
Compatible templates will form a test set, in which the
character template that best matches the input character is
determined. The template test is performed by a SO character
recognition method Self-organized neural network is based on
Kohonen’s self-organized feature maps to handle noisy,
broken, or incomplete characters. To differentiate the similar
characters from character pairs such as (8, B) and (O, D) the
authors predefined an ambiguity set containing the characters
0, 8, B and D. For each character in the set, the non-
ambiguous parts of the character are specified as it is shown
in fig. 3. After the unknown character is classified as one of
the characters in the ambiguity set, a minor comparison
between the unknown character and the classed character is
performed. Then in the comparison process only non
ambiguous parts of characters are focused. The authors
achieved recognition rate of 95.6% for the upright license
plate images. In [77] a survey on automatic character
recognition method is discussed. As per Anju K Sadasivan
and T.Senthilkumar [77] the main challenge in character
recognition is to handle unknown text layout, different font
sizes, different illumination conditions, reflections, shadowing
and aliasing.
4.4 Discussion
Fig.3. Distinguishing parts of ambiguous characters in [49].
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As character segmentation is the pre-processing steps of
character recognition, the recognizer system should be able to
handle ambiguous, noisy or distorted characters received from
character segmentation phase. Good results are reported with
ANN and self organizing (SO) recognition. The details are
summarized in Table 2. As OCR is widely used and popular
method recently, ANPR developers are focusing on improving
accuracy of OCR rather than to redesign the entire ANPR
from the scratch. As it is discussed in previous section, some
developers are using open source OCR such as Tesseract and
modifying it for better accuracy.
5. CONCLUSION
5.1 Future work
ANPR can be further exploited for vehicle owner
identification, vehicle model identification traffic control,
vehicle speed control and vehicle location tracking. It can be
further extended as multilingual ANPR to identify the
language of characters automatically based on the training
data It can provide various benefits like traffic safety
enforcement, security- in case of suspicious activity by
vehicle, easy to use, immediate information availability- as
compare to searching vehicle owner registration details
manually and cost effective for any country For low
resolution images some improvement algorithms like super
resolution [30], [31] of images should be focused. Most of the
ANPR focus on processing one vehicle number plate but in
real-time there can be more than one vehicle number plates
while the images are being captured. In [5] multiple vehicle
number plate images are considered for ANPR while in most
of other systems offline images of vehicle, taken from online
database such as [78] are given as input to ANPR so the exact
results may deviate from the results shown in Table 1 and
Table 2. To segment multiple vehicle number plates a coarse-
to-fine strategy [56] could be helpful.
Table 2. Character recognition rate with method and type of category
Ref Method Success
Rate (in
%)
Type of Category
[5] Two layer PNN 89,1 Letters
[34] Statistical feature extraction. 85 Not reported
[15] Feature salient 95,7 Not reported
[19] SVM Integration with feature extraction 93,7 English characters,
Chinese, Numeral,
Kana
[16] Template matching Not
reported
Letters, digits
[6] multi layered perceptron (MLP) ANN 98,17 Letters, digits
[7] multi layered perceptron (MLP) ANN Not
reported
Letters, digits
[14] Open source OCR Tesseract 98,7 Letters, digits
[8] BP neural network Not
reported
Korean Letters, digits
[18] BP neural network Not
reported
Chinese letters, English letters
and digits
[43] MRF Not
reported
Letters, digits
[49] character categorization, topological sorting, and
self-organizing (SO) recognition
95,6 Letters, digits
[52] Hierarchical Neural Network(HNN) 95,2 Letters, digits
[11] PNN 96,5 Letters, digits
[10] BP neural network 93,5 Letters, digits
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5.2 Summary
It is quite clear that A]NPR is difficult system because of
different number of phases and presently it is not possible to
achieve 100% overall accuracy as each phase is dependent on
previous phase. Certain factors like different illumination
conditions, vehicle shadow and non-uniform size of license
plate characters, different font and background color affect the
performance of ANPR. Some systems work in these restricted
conditions only and might not produce good amount of
accuracy in adverse conditions. Some of the systems are
developed and used for specific country, which is summarized
in table 3. The systems in which there is no mention of
country are not included in table 3. As per table 3, it is
evident that very few of the ANPR [34], [7] are developed for
India. So there is a wide scope to develop such system for the
country like India.
This paper provides comprehensive study of recent
development and future trends in ANPR, which can be helpful
to the researchers who are involved in such developments.
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank Mr. Dharmendra Patel for providing
necessary guidance in conducting this research. The authors
also thank Charotar University of Science and Technology
(CHARUSAT) for providing necessary resources for
conducting this survey.
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AUTHOR’S PROFILE
Chirag Patel received Bachelor degree in computer
applications (B.C.A) degree from Dharmsinh Desai
University Nadiad, Gujarat, India in 2002 and Masters Degree
in Computer Applications (M.C.A) from Gujarat University,
Gujarat, India in 2005. He is pursuing PhD in Computer
Science and Applications from Charotar University of Science
and Technology (CHARUSAT). He is with MCA
Department at Smt Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Institute of
Computer Applications, Charotar University of Science and
Technology (CHARUSAT), Changa, Gujarat, India. His
research interests include Information Retrieval from
image/video, Image Processing and Service Oriented
Architecture.
Dr. Dipti Shah received Bachelor degree in Science;
B.Sc.(Maths), M.C.A. Degree from S.P. University , Gujarat,
India. She has also received Ph.D in Computer Science,
degree from S.P. University, Gujarat, India. Now she is
Professor at G.H.Patel Department of Computer Science, S.P.
University, Anand, Gujarat, India. Her Research interests
include Computer Graphics, Image Processing, Multimedia
and Medical Informatics.
Dr. Atul Patel received Bachelor in Science B.Sc
(Electronics), M.C.A. Degree from Gujarat University, India.
M.Phil. (Computer Science) Degree from Madurai Kamraj
University, India. He has received his Ph.D degree from S. P.
University.Now he is an Associate Professor and Head, Smt
Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Institute of Computer
Applications – Changa, India. His main research areas are
wireless communication and Network Security
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