Vehicle number plate recognition using mathematical morphology and neural networks

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 781-790

  Sulehria, Humayun Karim ^a   Zhang, Ye ^a   Irfan, Danish ^a   Sulehria, Atif Karim ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Mathematical morphology; Morphing transformations; Morphological gradient; Vehicle number plate

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; VEGETATION; VEHICLES;

MORPHING; MORPHING TRANSFORMATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL GRADIENT; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; NEURAL NETS; NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION; VEHICLE NUMBER PLATE;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 48749122830     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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