Fast license plate localization using discrete wavelet transform

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5574 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 408-415

  Wang, Yuh Rau ^a   Lin, Wei Hung ^b   Horng, Shi Jinn ^b,c  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Digital image processing; Discrete wavelet transform; Histogram; License plate localization; License plate recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; DETECTION RATES; DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING; HISTOGRAM; LICENSE PLATE; LICENSE PLATE LOCALIZATION; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; RUNTIMES; SOURCE IMAGES; SUB-BANDS;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 70349128202     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03095-6_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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