License plate character segmentation based on the Gabor transform and vector quantization

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2869, Issue , 2003, Pages 381-388

  Kahraman, Fatih ^a   Kurt, Binnur ^a   Gökmen, Muhittin ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINARY TREES; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; EDGE DETECTION; GABOR FILTERS; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; FILTER RESPONSE; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; LICENSE PLATE DETECTION; LICENSE PLATE SEGMENTATIONS; NOVEL ALGORITHM; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RESEARCH EFFORTS;

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

EID: 0142246107     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39737-3_48     Document Type: Article

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