License plate detection based on 2-level 2D Haar wavelet transform and edge density verification

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1699-1704

  Wu, Ming Kan ^a   Wei, Jing Siang ^a   Shih, Hao Chung ^a   Ho, Chian C ^a  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; BACKGROUND NOISE; DETECTION RATES; EDGE DENSITIES; FIRST-ORDER; HAAR WAVELET TRANSFORM; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LEVEL 2; LICENSE PLATE; LICENSE PLATE DETECTION; ORTHOGONAL PROJECTION; PRE-PROCESSING METHOD; SOBEL OPERATOR; SUB-BANDS; SYSTEM-BASED; VERTICAL EDGES;

ASPECT RATIO; GRAPHIC METHODS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 77950109402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2009.5214275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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