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Abstract— It might be challenging to locate speeding drivers number for several states, in Europe and other continents. Our
and those who have breached the law. Traffic signals and car project main objectives are to acquire in a successful way car
owner verification are now major issues in every country. As a images, extract the license number plate from the acquired
result of the speed of cars, it is difficult for police to collect image, and recognize the license plate characters by matching
numbers from moving cars, so finding methods to detect such
them with prerequired information.
people is fruitless. To address this issue, it is crucial to advertise
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). It might be
challenging to locate speeding drivers and those who have II. Literature Survey
breached the law. Traffic signals and car owner verification are
now major issues in every country. The detection and recognition [3] S.Roy, A. Choudhury, J. Mukherjee. The proposed a
of a vehicle License Plate (LP) is a key technique in most of the system to localization of number plate and segmented the
applications related to vehicle movement. Moreover, it is a quite numbers as to identify each number separately
popular and active research topic in the field of image
This paper presents an approach based on simple and
processing. Different methods, techniques and algorithms have
been developed to detect and recognize License Plates. Vehicle efficient morphological operation and sobel edge detection
License Plate Recognition (VLPR) process is a challenging method.He also presents a simple approach to segmented all
process because of variations in viewpoint, shape, colour, the letters and numbers used in the number plate. After
multiple formats and non-uniform illumination conditions at the reducing noise from the input image we try to enhance the
time of image acquisition. contrast of the binarized image using histogram equalization.
[8] Over the last few years researches are going on regarding
vehicle identifications. Some of the studies have been done A. Binary Image Processing
just to analyze the category of vehicle for example a car, van,
This method is used to mine license plate regions from
background. it is a combination of edge statistics and
morphology techniques. This process has achieved a 90 C. Contrast Extension
percent recognition rate from 100 images—supposing that the
number plate frame’s edges are perfect and plane. To expand the contrast of the image we have to perform the
process of histogram equalization. Contrast extension process
increases the sharpness of the image. Gray level histogram of
an image indicates the brightness of a pixel. Histogram
equalization is done to improve the quality of an image which
has a very poor contrast. The total process is divided in four
steps:
(i) summing up all the histogram values
(ii) dividing these values with the total no of pixels so as to
normalize the values.
A.1 Gray-Scale Processing (iii) enlarge these values with the highest grey level value.
(iv) chart the new grey level value.
Greyscale Images are those images which contain only a
single value that is each pixel has only a single value, they D. Median Filtering
carry only the information of intensity under them. They are
also known as black and white image or a monochrome image Median filter is used for removing the undesirable noises in
as they mostly in grey colour the intensity is divided in such a the image. In this method a matrix of 3x3 is passed in the
way that black has the lowest intensity while white has the image. According the noise levels these dimensions can be
strongest. We firstly start by converting an colour image into adjusted. This process involves sorting of all the pixel values
an greyscale image. The expression is: orderly, and then replacing the pixel being considered with the
median pixel value.
R=rgb2grey(p)
E. Character Segmentation
Where R is the gray-scaled image and p is the colour image
By using the Region props function of MATLAB the
A.2 Colour Processing characters of the resulted number plate region are separated
which gives us the defined boxes for each of the characters.
[11] Colour processing is a fundamental step in image The smallest defined box that contains a character is returned
processing as well as for plate recognition as in most of the by Region props function. This method is used to obtain the
countries certain norms are fixed for the plate colour and no. defined boxes of all characters in the number plate.
like in India the vehicles have to keep the letters in black with
a white background. But due to poor lighting conditions and
plate location the output is not efficient that is why we need
colour processing so as to have an accurate retrieval of
characters with greater efficiency.
B. Adaptive Thresholding
Fig. 2. Recognition