Principal visual word discovery for automatic license plate detection

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4269-4279

  Zhou, Wengang ^a   Li, Houqiang ^a   Lu, Yijuan ^b   Tian, Qi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Texas State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; geometric context; object detection; principal visual word (PVW)

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CLUTTER; BAG OF WORDS; CLUSTERING; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GEOMETRIC CONTEXT; IMAGE SEARCH; LICENSE PLATE DETECTION; LOCAL FEATURE; OBJECT DETECTION; OBSERVATION ANGLE; OPEN ENVIRONMENT; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; VISUAL WORD;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

IMAGE MATCHING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LICENSING; METHODOLOGY;

AUTOMOBILES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LICENSURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84865411192     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2012.2199506     Document Type: Article

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