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Accurate detection and recognition of dirty vehicle plate numbers for high-speed applications

Panahi, R ; Sharif University of Technology | 2017

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2016.2586520
  3. Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc , 2017
  4. Abstract:
  5. This paper presents an online highly accurate system for automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) that can be used as a basis for many real-world ITS applications. The system is designed to deal with unclear vehicle plates, variations in weather and lighting conditions, different traffic situations, and high-speed vehicles. This paper addresses various issues by presenting proper hardware platforms along with real-Time, robust, and innovative algorithms. We have collected huge and highly inclusive data sets of Persian license plates for evaluations, comparisons, and improvement of various involved algorithms. The data sets include images that were captured from crossroads, streets, and highways, in day and night, various weather conditions, and different plate clarities. Over these data sets, our system achieves 98.7%, 99.2%, and 97.6% accuracies for plate detection, character segmentation, and plate recognition, respectively. The false alarm rate in plate detection is less than 0.5%. The overall accuracy on the dirty plates portion of our data sets is 91.4%. Our ANPR system has been installed in several locations and has been tested extensively for more than a year. The proposed algorithms for each part of the system are highly robust to lighting changes, size variations, plate clarity, and plate skewness. The system is also independent of the number of plates in captured images. This system has been also tested on three other Iranian data sets and has achieved 100% accuracy in both detection and recognition parts. To show that our ANPR is not language dependent, we have tested our system on available English plates data set and achieved 97% overall accuracy. © 2000-2011 IEEE
  6. Keywords:
  7. Digital signal processors ; Plate detection ; RANSAC ; Support vector machine (SVM) ; Automatic vehicle identification ; Intelligent vehicle highway systems ; Lighting ; Vehicles ; Automatic number plate recognition ; Character segmentation ; High speed vehicles ; High-speed applications ; Innovative algorithms ; Lighting conditions ; Overall accuracies ; Traffic situations ; License plates (automobile)
  8. Source: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; Volume 18, Issue 4 , 2017 , Pages 767-779 ; 15249050 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7534742