Title :
A new method of vehicle license plate location based on mathematical morphology and texture characteristics
Author :
Sun, Guangmin ; Li, Gang ; Xu, Lei ; Wang, Jing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Technol., Beijing
Abstract :
Generally, the traditional algorithms of vehicle license plate location are not able to deal with different kinds of license plates. In order to solve this problem, after considering the characteristics of color, edge, texture and geometry size around license plate, a morphology method based on modified top-hat transform is presented in this paper. The experimental result shows that this new method has strong robustness and can be applied in various conditions.
Keywords :
edge detection; image texture; mathematical morphology; transforms; color characteristics; edge characteristics; mathematical morphology; modified top-hat transform; texture characteristics; vehicle license plate location; Automotive engineering; Geometry; Image coding; Image edge detection; Licenses; Morphology; Robustness; Sun; Transportation; Vehicle detection; Edge detection; License plate location; Mathematical morphology; Top-hat transform;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2008. ICIEA 2008. 3rd IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1717-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1718-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICIEA.2008.4582662
