A novel algorithm for character segmentation of degraded license plate based on prior knowledge

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 249-253

  Jia, Xiaodan ^a,b   Wang, Xinnian ^b   Li, Wenju ^a   Wang, Haijiao ^a,b  

^a LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Incline correction; License plate character segmentation; Merge characters; Prior knowledge; Split character

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

INCLINE CORRECTION; MERGE CHARACTERS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SPLIT CHARACTERS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 40649122585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAL.2007.4338565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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