An intelligent strategy for checking the annual inspection status of motorcycles based on license plate recognition

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 9260-9267

  Huang, Yo Ping ^a   Chen, Chien Hung ^b   Chang, Yueh Tsun ^b   Sandnes, Frode Eika ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b TATUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Back propagation neural network; Character recovery; Feature matching; Horizontal and vertical projections; License plate recognition; Search window

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BICYCLES; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; INSPECTION; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); MOTORCYCLES; NEURAL NETWORKS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; ROADSIDES; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; WINDOWS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK; CHARACTER RECOVERY; FEATURE MATCHING; HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL PROJECTIONS; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; SEARCH WINDOW;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 60849131713     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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