Automatic License Plate Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 42-53

  Chang, Shyang Lih ^a   Chen, Li Shien ^a   Chung, Yun Chung ^a   Chen, Sei Wan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Color edge detector; Fuzzification; License number identification; License plate locating; License plate recognition (LPR); Self organizing (SO) character recognition; Spring model; Topological sorting; Two stage fuzzy aggregation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHTING; MARKOV PROCESSES; TOPOLOGY;

COLOR EDGE DETECTORS; FUZZIFICATION; LICENSE NUMBER IDENTIFICATION; LICENSE PLATE LOCATING; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION (LPR); SELF-ORGANIZING (SO) CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SPRING MODEL; TOPOLOGICAL SORTING; TWO-STAGE FUZZY AGGREGATION;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

EID: 2342525923     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2004.825086     Document Type: Article

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