Graphical models for joint segmentation and recognition of license plate characters

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-13

  Fan, Xin ^a,b   Fan, Guoliang ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^b DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic license plate recognition; Belief propagation; Character segmentation; Graphical models

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; BELIEF PROPAGATION; BELIEF PROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; GRAPHICAL MODELS; JOINT SEGMENTATIONS; LICENSE PLATES; OPTIMAL SEGMENTATIONS; PLATE RECOGNITIONS; STATISTICAL INFERENCES;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 58049206277     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2008.2008486     Document Type: Article

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