Extracting characters of license plates from video sequences

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 308-320

  Cui, Yuntao ^a,b,c,d   Huang, Qian ^a,d,e  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binarization; Document analysis; Image sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

MARKOV RANDOM FIELD (MRF);

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031652467     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001380050081     Document Type: Article

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