Automatic license plate location and recognition

Abstract

Automatic license plate recognition (LPR), which plays an important role in intelligent transport system has been proposed. In this study, a novel method to recognize license plates is presented. The proposed LPR technique consists of three main phases. Firstly, a segmentation phase contains the one-dimension cycle clear method locates the license plate within the image. Then, a procedure based upon feature projection separates the license plate into seven single-characters. Finally, the character recognizer extracts some feature points and uses the multi-stage classifier to get a robust solution under multiple acquisition conditions. Experiments have been conducted for the respective modules. Combining the above all rates, the overall rate of success algorithm is 92.5%. Our experiments show that the proposed method for LPR is correct and efficient.