A configurable method for multi-style license plate recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 358-369

  Jiao, Jianbin ^a   Ye, Qixiang ^a   Huang, Qingming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Character segmentation; Configurable method; License plate recognition; Multi style license plate

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; IMAGE MATCHING; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROTATION;

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CONFIGURABLE; CONFIGURABLE METHOD; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITIONS; LICENSE PLATES; LINE SEGMENTATIONS; MATCHING ALGORITHMS; MULTI-STYLE LICENSE PLATE; PARAMETER VALUES; PRECISE; QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS; ROTATION ANGLES;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 54549122335     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.08.016     Document Type: Article

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