Automatic car plate detection and recognition through intelligent vision engineering

Author

Salgado, Luis ; Menéndez, José M. ; Rendón, Enrique ; García, Narciso

Author_Institution

Grupo de Tratamiento de Imagenes, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

76

Abstract

License plate recognition systems are becoming the key to many traffic related applications such as road traffic monitoring or parking lot access control. In this paper, a software and hardware architecture implemented in the ESPRIT 5184 LOCOMOTIVE project for automatic vehicle plate number identification is presented. The system, developed in order to dynamically recognize symbol clusters on moving objects, integrates different computer vision techniques related to intrusion detection and automatic pattern recognition in slightly controlled environments, keeping real time operation

Keywords

automated highways; computerised monitoring; image recognition; real-time systems; road traffic; software architecture; traffic engineering computing; ESPRIT 5184 LOCOMOTIVE project; automatic car plate detection; automatic car plate recognition; automatic pattern recognition; automatic vehicle plate number identification; computer vision techniques; dynamic symbol cluster recognition; hardware architecture; intelligent vision engineering; intrusion detection; license plate recognition systems; moving object; parking lot access control; real time operation; road traffic monitoring; slightly controlled environments; software architecture; Access control; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer vision; Computerized monitoring; Hardware; Licenses; Pattern recognition; Roads; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Security Technology, 1999. Proceedings. IEEE 33rd Annual 1999 International Carnahan Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5247-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCST.1999.797895

Filename

797895