License plate localisation based on morphological operations

X. Zhai; F. Bensaali; S. Ramalingam

doi:10.1109/ICARCV.2010.5707933

License plate localisation based on morphological operations

X. Zhai, F. Bensaali, S. Ramalingam

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Abstract

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems allow users to track, identify and monitor moving vehicles by automatically extracting their number plates. This paper presents an improved method to locate car plates in an ANPR system. The proposed method is based on morphological open and close operations where different Structuring Elements (SE) are used to maximally eliminate non-plate region and enhance plate region. This method has been tested using a database of UK number plates and results achieved have shown significant improvements in terms of the detection rate compare to other existing plate localisation systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Procs of the 11th Int Conf on Control Automation Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	1128-1132
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-7814-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2010.5707933
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

number plate localisation
ANPR
morphological operation

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