Vehicle license plate character segmentation

International Journal of Automation and Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 425-432

  Pan, Mei Sen ^a   Yan, Jun Biao ^a   Xiao, Zheng Hong ^a,b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auxiliary lines; Character segmentation; Least square method (LSM); Pixel; Vehicle license plate (VLP)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CURVE FITTING; GEODESY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; VEHICLES;

AUXILIARY LINES; CHARACTER IMAGES; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CHARACTER SEGMENTATIONS; CHINESE CHARACTERS; CORRECTED IMAGES; FAST PROCESSING; GRAY VALUES; LEAST SQUARE METHOD (LSM); LEAST SQUARE METHODS; MINIMUM PRINCIPLES; NOISE REGIONS; PROJECTION METHODS; VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE (VLP); VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

EID: 54249103013     PISSN: 14768186     EISSN: 17518520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11633-008-0425-0     Document Type: Article

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