An edge-based macao license plate recognition system

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 244-254

  Pun, Chi Man ^a   Ho, Wai Yiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Edge detection; License plate recognition; Morphology; Projection; Template matching

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; EDGE DETECTION; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE); MORPHOLOGY; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROJECTION; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SEPARATION ALGORITHMS; SOBEL EDGE DETECTORS; TEMPLATE MATCHING METHOD; VERIFICATION ALGORITHMS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 79955972228     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2011.9727780     Document Type: Article

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