Automatic license plate recognition: A review

Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology, CISST'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 43-49

  Jia, Wenjing ^a   He, Xiangjian ^a   Piccardi, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Color information; Localization; Skews detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION (ALPR); COLOR INFORMATION; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS); LOCALIZATION; SKEWS DETECTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM);

AUTOMATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SECURITY OF DATA; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 12744260578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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