License plate recognition method for inclined plates outdoors

Proceedings - 1999 International Conference on Information Intelligence and Systems, ICIIS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 304-312

  Naito, T ^a   Tsukada, T ^a   Yamada, K ^a   Kozuka, K ^a   Yamamoto, S ^b  

^a Toyota Central   (Japan)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; VEHICLES;

CAMERA PLACEMENT; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; MOVING VEHICLES; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; SENSING SYSTEMS; VARIOUS ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

EID: 0347540957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIIS.1999.810281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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