Towards a multinational car license plate recognition system

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 173-183

  Shapiro, Vladimir ^a   Gluhchev, Georgi ^b   Dimov, Dimo ^b  

^a Orbograph Ltd   (United States)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Feature extraction; License plate processing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); PATTERN MATCHING;

CAR LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION (CLPR); CHARACTER SIZE; LICENSE PLATE PROCESSING; SEGMENTATION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 33746070784     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-006-0023-5     Document Type: Article

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