A sliding window technique for efficient license plate localization based on discrete wavelet transform

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3142-3146

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

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (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 LOCALIZATIONS; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; REAL-TIME LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; RESEARCH TOPICS; RUNTIMES; SLIDING WINDOW TECHNIQUES; SOURCE IMAGES; SUB-BANDS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 78650684073     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.08.106     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. C.N.E. Anagnostopoulos, I.E. Anagnostopoulos, I.D. Psoroulas, V. Loumos, and E. Kayafas License plate recognition from still images and video sequences: A survey IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 9 3 2008 377 391
2. Cao, G.; Chen, J.; Jiang, J. (2003). An adaptive approach to vehicle license plate localization. In: Proceedings of the 29th annual conference IECON (pp. 1786-1791).
3. S.L. Chang, L.S. Chen, Y.C. Chung, and S.W. Chen Automatic license plate recognition IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems 5 1 2004 42 53
4. J.M. Guo, and Y.F. Liu License plate localization and character segmentation with feedback self-learning and hybrid binarization techniques IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 57 3 2008 1417 1424
5. Hsieh, C. T.; Juan, Y. S.; Hung, K. M.; (2005) Multiple license plate detection for complex background. In: Proceedings of IEEE 19th international conference AINA (pp. 389-392).
6. Hung, K. M.; Chuang, H. L.; Hsieh, C. T. (2007). License plate detection based on expanded Haar wavelet transform, fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery. In: Proceedings of fourth international conference on FSKD, Haikou (pp. 415-419).
7. Li, J.; Xie, M. (2007). A color and texture feature based approach to license plate location. In: Proceedings of international conference on computational intelligence and security, Harbin (pp. 376-380).
8. Ma, Z.; Yang, J. (2006). A license plate locating algorithm based on multiple Gauss filters and morphology mathematics. In: Proceedings of the 24th IASTED international multiconference, signal processing, pattern recognition and applications, Insbruck, Austria (pp. 99-94).
9. X. Shi, W. Zhao, and Y. Shen Automatic license plate recognition system based on color image processing O. Gervasi, 2005 Springer-Verlag New York 1159 1168
10. Suryanarayana, P. V.; Mitra, S. K.; Banerjee, A.; Roy, A. K. (2005). A morphology based approach for car license plate extraction. In: Proceedings of IEEE INDICON, Chennai, India (pp. 24-27).
11. Wang, S. Z.; Lee, H. -J. (2003). Detection and recognition of license plate characters with different appearances. In: Proceedings of IEEE international conference, intelligent transportation (pp. 979-984).
12. Wang, Y.-R.; Lin, W.-H.; Horng, S.-J. (2009). Fast license plate localization using discrete wavelet transform. In: Proceedings of the ninth international conference on algorithms and architectures for parallel processing (ICA3PP2009), Taipei, Taiwan (pp. 408-415).
13. Yang, F.; Ma, Z. (2005). Vehicle license plate location based on histogramming and mathematical morphology. In: Proceedings of fourth IEEE workshop automatic identification advanced technologies (pp. 89-94). (Pubitemid 44733955)
14. Zhang, H.; Jia, W.; He, X.; Wu, Q. (2006). Learning-based license plate detection using global and local features. In: Proceedings of ICPR (pp. 1102-1105). (Pubitemid 46532395)
15. D. Zheng, Y. Zhao, and J. Wang An efficient method of license plate location Pattern Recognition Letters 26 15 2005 2431 2438