Optical Recognition of Motor Vehicle License Plates

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 790-799

  Comelli, Paolo ^a   Ferragina, Paolo ^b   Stabile, Flavio ^c   Granieri, Mario Notturno ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c IBM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAME GRABBER CARD; ITALIAN LICENSE NUMBER; MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES; OPTICAL RECOGNITION; REARVIEW IMAGE; TEMPLATE MATCHING OPERATORS; TOLL GATES;

COMPUTER VISION; DATA ACQUISITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); TOLL HIGHWAYS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029410922     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: 19399359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.467963     Document Type: Article

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