Application-oriented license plate recognition

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 552-561

  Hsu, Gee Sern ^a   Chen, Jiun Chang ^b   Chung, Yu Zu ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Senao International Co Ltd   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Character segmentation; plate detection; vehicle license plate recognition (LPR)

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

APPLICATION-ORIENTED; BI-LAYER; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; EDGE CLUSTERING; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER SETTING; PLATE DETECTIONS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; THREE CATEGORIES; VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION;

DETECTORS;

EID: 84873897850     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2226218     Document Type: Article

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