Title :
Saudi Arabian license plate recognition system
Author :
Sarfraz, Muhammad ; Ahmed, Mohammed Jameel ; Ghazi, Syed A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
A license plate recognition (LPR) system is one kind of intelligent transport systems and is of considerable interest because of its potential applications to areas such as highway electronic toll collection, traffic monitoring system and so on. This paper proposes an automatic license plate recognition system for Saudi Arabian license plates. The system captures the images of the vehicles with a digital camera. An algorithm for the extraction of license plate has been designed and an algorithm for segmentation of characters is proposed. The performance of the system has been investigated on real images of about 610 vehicles captured under various illumination conditions. Recognition of about 95% shows that the system is quite effective.
Keywords :
expert systems; feature extraction; image coding; image recognition; image segmentation; traffic engineering computing; LPR system; Saudi Arabia; automatic license plate recognition; character recognition; character segmentation; digital camera; feature extraction; highway electronic toll collection; image acquisition; image capturing; intelligent transport system; traffic monitoring system; Application software; Character recognition; Charge-coupled image sensors; Computer science; Digital cameras; Image edge detection; Image recognition; Image segmentation; Licenses; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Geometric Modeling and Graphics, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1985-7
DOI :
10.1109/GMAG.2003.1219663
