Detection and recognition of vehicle license plates using template matching, genetic algorithms and neural networks

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1975-1985

  Karungaru, Stephen ^a   Fukumi, Minoru ^a   Akamatsu, Norio ^a   Akashi, Takuya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Genetic algorithms; License plates; Neural networks; Template matching

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COLOR PIXELS; LICENSE PLATE DETECTION; LICENSE PLATES; RANDOM SELECTION; SYSTEM ACCURACY; VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES;

COLOR; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GEOMETRY; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

EID: 67749108064     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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