Automatic license-plate location and recognition based on feature salience

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3781-3785

  Chen, Zhen Xue ^a   Liu, Cheng Yun ^a   Chang, Fa Liang ^a   Wang, Guo You ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature salience; Feature selection; License plate location; License plate recognition (LPR)

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SALIENCE; FEATURE SELECTION; LICENSE PLATE; LICENSE-PLATE LOCATION; LICENSE-PLATE RECOGNITION (LPR); NOVEL METHODS; OVERALL RATE; PLATE RECOGNITION; ROBUST RECOGNITION; SALIENT FEATURES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 69549118607     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2009.2013139     Document Type: Article

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