A new method for vehicle license plate character segmentation

ICIC Express Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 607-613

  Pan, Meisen ^a,b   Tang, Jingtian ^b   Xiong, Qi ^a   Tan, Wenxue ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Character segmentation; Fuzzy C means; Watershed algorithm

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY LINES; BINARIZATIONS; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CHINESE CHARACTERS; CITY-BLOCK DISTANCES; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; GRAY IMAGE; KEY PARTS; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; S-METHOD; VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; WATERSHEDS;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

EID: 77953902138     PISSN: 1881803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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