Joint segmentation and recognition of license plate characters

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 353-356

  Fan, Xin ^a,b   Fan, Guoliang ^a   Liang, Dequn ^b  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^b DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic license plate recognition; Belief propagation; Character image segmentation and recognition; Markov network

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); MARKOV PROCESSES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; BELIEF PROPAGATION; BELIEF PROPAGATION ALGORITHM; CHARACTER IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND RECOGNITION; COMPOSITIONAL SEMANTICS; JOINT SEGMENTATION AND RECOGNITION; MARKOV NETWORKS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 48149102883     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4380027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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