A design of the object detection system using the RGA

License plate recognition is very important is an automobile society. However, it is very difficult to do it, because the background and body color of cars are sometimes similar to that of the license plate. Furthermore, the detection of cars moving at a very high speed is difficult. In this paper, we propose a new robust thresholds-determination method in various backgrounds by using the real coded genetic algorithm (RGA). By using RGA, the most likely plate colors are decided under various light conditions. First, the average brightness Y values of images are calculated. Next, relationship between the Y value and the most likely plate color thresholds (upper and lower bounds) are obtained by GA to estimate threshold equations by using recursive least squares (RLS) algorithm. Finally, in order to show the effectiveness of the proposed method, we show simulation examples by using real images. The resulting rate of detection is 85.0%.