License plate character segmentation based on stroke width transform

Author(s):  
Yongshun Hou ◽  
Xunhui Qin ◽  
Xiangdong Zhou ◽  
Xi Zhou ◽  
Ting Zhang
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Xiong ◽  
Lei Zhou ◽  
Ling Yue ◽  
Lirong Li ◽  
Song Wang

AbstractBinarization plays an important role in document analysis and recognition (DAR) systems. In this paper, we present our winning algorithm in ICFHR 2018 competition on handwritten document image binarization (H-DIBCO 2018), which is based on background estimation and energy minimization. First, we adopt mathematical morphological operations to estimate and compensate the document background. It uses a disk-shaped structuring element, whose radius is computed by the minimum entropy-based stroke width transform (SWT). Second, we perform Laplacian energy-based segmentation on the compensated document images. Finally, we implement post-processing to preserve text stroke connectivity and eliminate isolated noise. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art techniques on several public available benchmark datasets.


2013 ◽  
Vol 760-762 ◽  
pp. 1638-1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Yu Chen ◽  
Bao Zhi Cheng ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
Fu Cheng Wang ◽  
Chen Zhang

At present, the traffic engineering and automation have developed, and the vehicle license plate recognition technology need get a corresponding improvement also. In case of identifying a car license picture, the principle of automatic license plate recognition is illustrated in this paper, and the processing is described in detail which includes the pre-processing, the edge extraction, the license plate location, the character segmentation, the character recognition. The program implementing recognition is edited by Matlab. The example result shows that the recognition method is feasible, and it can be put into practice.


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