Automatic vehicle number plate recognition using structured elements

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is a kind of image processing technology for recognizing the vehicle number plate. This system also offers users to place, mark out and monitor moving vehicles automatically by extracting their number plates. It also plays an important role in intelligent traffic control system. This research presents a prosperous method to identify vehicle number plates. The proposed technique is built on morphological operations based on different structuring elements in order to maximally exclude non-interested region and improve object area. This system has been experienced using a database of number plates and simulated results demonstrate major improvements as compared to other conventional systems. The success rate of the proposed method is about 92% with varying light conditions.