License plate localization based on a probabilistic model

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 319-330

  Al Hmouz, Rami ^b   Challa, Subhash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bayes' rule; LPR; Plate localization

Indexed keywords

BAYES' RULE; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; DETECTION PROBLEMS; DETECTION THRESHOLD; FEATURE FUSION; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; LICENSE PLATE; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; VOTING ALGORITHM;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77953356362     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-008-0164-9     Document Type: Article

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