Vector quantization for license-plate location and image coding

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 159-167

  Zunino, Rodolfo ^a   Rovetta, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

AUTOMATED TRANSPORT SYSTEMS (ATS);

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

EID: 0034135670     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/41.824138     Document Type: Article

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