A new method for correcting vehicle license plate tilt

International Journal of Automation and Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 210-216

  Pan, Mei Sen ^a   Xiong, Qi ^a   Yan, Jun Biao ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Hough transformation; K L transformation; Projection profile; Tilt correction

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; CORRECTION IMAGES; CORRECTION METHODS; EIGEN VECTORS; HORIZONTAL TILT CORRECTIONS; HOUGH TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE TILTS; K-L TRANSFORMATION; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; KARHUNEN -LOEVE; LEAST SQUARES; LINE FITTINGS; PROJECTION PROFILE; ROTATED IMAGES; ROTATION ANGLES; SHEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; TILT ANGLES; TILT CORRECTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COVARIANCE MATRIX; CURVE FITTING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

EID: 65449123181     PISSN: 14768186     EISSN: 17518520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11633-009-0210-8     Document Type: Article

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