scholarly journals A Real-Time Automatic Plate Recognition System Based on Optical Character Recognition and Wireless Sensor Networks for ITS

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Nicole do Vale Dalarmelina ◽  
Marcio Andrey Teixeira ◽  
Rodolfo I. Meneguette
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Identification System ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Smart Parking

Automatic License Plate Recognition has been a recurrent research topic due to the increasing number of cameras available in cities, where most of them, if not all, are connected to the Internet. The video traffic generated by the cameras can be analyzed to provide useful insights for the transportation segment. This paper presents the development of an intelligent vehicle identification system based on optical character recognition (OCR) method to be used on intelligent transportation systems. The proposed system makes use of an intelligent parking system named Smart Parking Service (SPANS), which is used to manage public or private spaces. Using computer vision techniques, the SPANS system is used to detect if the parking slots are available or not. The proposed system makes use of SPANS framework to capture images of the parking spaces and identifies the license plate number of the vehicles that are moving around the parking as well as parked in the parking slots. The recognition of the license plate is made in real-time, and the performance of the proposed system is evaluated in real-time.

scholarly journals License Plate Recognition for Vehicle Surveillance

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-138
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Color Contrast ◽  
License Plate ◽  
License Plate Recognition ◽  
Optical Character

License plate recognition system plays very important role in various security aspects which includes entry monitoring of a particular vehicle in commercial complex, traffic monitoring , identification of threats and many more. In past few years many different methods has been adopted for license plate recognition system but still there is little more chance to work on real time difficulties which come across while license plate recognition like speed of vehicle, angle of license plate in picture, background of picture or color contrast of image, reflection on the license plate and so on. The combination of object detection, image processing, and pattern recognition are used to fulfill this application. In the proposed architecture , system will capture a small video and using Google's OCR(Optical Character Recognition) system will recognize license number, if that number get found in database gate will get open with the help of Arduino Uno.

scholarly journals Vehicle Number Plate Recognition using Micro Processor

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 3682-3684
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Processing Technology ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Text Format ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Plate Number ◽  
Image Processing Technology

An automatic license number plate recognition system that uses image processing technology for identifying the written characters and numbers on the vehicle’ license plate. The system can be used in highly secured areas to provide more safety, and can be used in parking, traffic, and other places to monitor all vehicle’s number plate in a predefined area. The character is recognized by the OCR technology that is optical character recognition system. It generates the vehicle’s license plate number in a text format. The recognized number from the license plate then can be used to retrieve more information about the vehicle and the owner.

An Accurate Real-Time License Plate Detection Method Based On Deep Learning Approaches

2021 ◽  
pp. 2160008
Author(s):  
Saeed Khazaee ◽  
Ali Tourani ◽  
Sajjad Soroori ◽  
Asadollah Shahbahrami ◽  
Ching Yee Suen
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
License Plate Detection

In vision-driven Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) where cameras play a vital role, accurate detection and re-identification of vehicles are fundamental demands. Hence, recent approaches have employed a wide range of algorithms to provide the best possible accuracy. These methods commonly generate a vehicle detection model based on its visual appearance features such as license plate, headlights, or some other distinguishable specifications. Among different object detection approaches, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have the advantage of magnificent detection accuracy in case a huge amount of training data is provided. In this paper, a robust approach for license plate detection (LPD) based on YOLO v.3 is proposed which takes advantage of high detection accuracy and real-time performance. The mentioned approach can detect the license plate location of vehicles as a general representation of vehicle presence in images. To train the model, a dataset of vehicle images with Iranian license plates has been generated by the authors and augmented to provide a wider range of data for test and train purposes. It should be mentioned that the proposed method can detect the license plate area as an indicator of vehicle presence with no Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithm to distinguish characters inside the license plate. Experimental results have shown the high performance of the system with a precision 0.979 and recall 0.972.

scholarly journals AUTOMATICS NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION USING CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORK

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-244
Author(s):  
Siddhartha Roy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Training Set ◽  
Optical Character

In the last few years, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems have become widely used for security, safety, and also commercial aspects such as parking control access, and legal steps for the red light violation, highway speed detection, and stolen vehicle detection. The license plate of any vehicle contains a number of numeric characters recognized by the computer. Each country in the world has specific characteristics of the license plate. Due to rapid development in the information system field, the previous manual license plate number writing process in the database is replaced by special intelligent device in a real-time environment. Several approaches and techniques are exploited to achieve better systems accuracy and real-time execution. It is a process of recognizing number plates using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on images. This paper proposes a deep learning-based approach to detect and identify the Indian number plate automatically. It is based on new computer vision algorithms of both number plate detection and character segmentation. The training needs several images to obtain greater accuracy. Initially, we have developed a training set database by training different segmented characters. Several tests were done by varying the Epoch value to observe the change of accuracy. The accuracy is more than 95% that presents an acceptable value compared to related works, which is quite satisfactory and recognizes the blurred number plate.

scholarly journals Real-time Automated Detection and Recognition of Nigerian License Plates via Deep Learning Single Shot Detection and Optical Character Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Kayode David Adedayo ◽  
Ayomide Oluwaseyi Agunloye
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
License Plate Detection ◽  
Detection And Recognition

License plate detection and recognition are critical components of the development of a connected Intelligent transportation system, but are underused in developing countries because to the associated costs. Existing license plate detection and recognition systems with high accuracy require the usage of Graphical Processing Units (GPU), which may be difficult to come by in developing nations. Single stage detectors and commercial optical character recognition engines, on the other hand, are less computationally expensive and can achieve acceptable detection and recognition accuracy without the use of a GPU. In this work, a pretrained SSD model and a tesseract tessdata-fast traineddata were fine-tuned on a dataset of more than 2,000 images of vehicles with license plate. These models were combined with a unique image preprocessing algorithm for character segmentation and tested using a general-purpose personal computer on a new collection of 200 automobiles with license plate photos. On this testing set, the plate detection system achieved a detection accuracy of 99.5 % at an IOU threshold of 0.45 while the OCR engine successfully recognized all characters on 150 license plates, one character incorrectly on 24 license plates, and two or more incorrect characters on 26 license plates. The detection procedure took an average of 80 milliseconds, while the character segmentation and identification stages took an average of 95 milliseconds, resulting in an average processing time of 175 milliseconds per image, or 6 photos per second. The obtained results are suitable for real-time traffic applications.

Automatic Number plate detection for law enforcement using optical recognition system

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Meenu Gupta ◽  
◽  
Rakesh Kumar ◽  
Arpit Sood ◽  
Gagandeep Kaur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Lighting Condition ◽  
Location Data ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Toll Collection ◽  
Infrared Cameras

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is a specialized type of Optical Character Recognition System (OCR). It is a method of reading a vehicle's license plate using OCR to create vehicle registry or location data. ANPR is utilized by a variety of agencies around the world to enforce the law, including determining whether a vehicle is registered or not. Government entities, such as highways agencies, can categorize traffic movements for computerized toll collection. Images of the text from the license plate can be stored and processed using the ANPR system. Infrared cameras are often employed to take photographs in any lighting condition, whether it is day or night. To be more accurate ANPR technology should also consider plate variations from place to place.

scholarly journals Automated License Plate Recognition System using Computer Vision

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1878-1881
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Digital Image Processing ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Digital Processing ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
License Plate ◽  
License Plate Recognition ◽  
Optical Character

This paper discusses about License plate recognition using digital processing of images, where the image of a vehicle is taken and the number plate is then recognized by various layers of digital image processing. The number plate is then allowed to undergo optical character recognition (OCR), this extracts the data and then compares it with a database containing the details of the vehicle. This allows the user to identify the type of vehicle and the identity of the person who is driving the vehicle. It will denote the user about the registration of the vehicle by comparing it with the database of the registered vehicle in the area. The device will consist of a camera which will take the real time footage of the vehicles and a snap from the video of the vehicle is used to recognize the number plate. The processor will process the images and will display the number of the vehicle and the owner of the vehicle in the display, this is achieved by comparing the number of the vehicle with the previously fed data from the database. This device will provide an efficient way for automating a parking system where there will be no need for a human to interfere with the checking of the vehicle and providing passes for the vehicle.

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