License plate localization and character segmentation with feedback self-learning and hybrid binarization techniques

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1417-1424

  Guo, Jing Ming ^a   Liu, Yun Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Character recognition (CR); Character segmentation (CS); License plate recognition system (LPRS); Plate localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION (CR); CHARACTER SEGMENTATION (CS); LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION SYSTEM (LPRS); PLATE LOCALIZATION;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

EID: 44849093096     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.909284     Document Type: Article

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