Development of an Automatic Vehicle License Plate Recognition System

자동차 번호판 자동 인식 시스템의 개발

  • 박진우 (명지대학교 공과대학 전기전자공학부) ;
  • 황영환 (명지대학교 공과대학 전기전자공학부) ;
  • 최환수 (명지대학교 공과대학 전기전자공학부)
  • Published : 1995.07.20

Abstract

This paper presents an enhanced preprocessing and recognition algorithm for automatic vehicle license plate recognition system. The algorithm first applies horizontal gradient filter followed by thresholding and mathematical morphology operation for preprocessing. The final stage of the preprocessing is the application of connected component analysis in order to estimate the license plate region. For the recognition of the serial numbers of the plates, we developed a very effective algorithm. We call this zerocrossing count algorithm. This paper presents a detail of this algorithm and compare the performance with a template matching algorithm which utilizes correlation coefficient.

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