Region-based license plate detection

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1324-1333

  Jia, Wenjing ^a   Zhang, Huaifeng ^a   He, Xiangjian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Features; License plate detection; Mahalanobis classifier; Mean shift segmentation; Region

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

LICENSE PLATE DETECTION; MAHALANOBIS CLASSIFIER; MEAN-SHIFT SEGMENTATION;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

EID: 34547857033     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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