A license plate character segmentation method based on character contour and template matching

Applied Mechanics and Materials

Volumn 333-335, Issue , 2013, Pages 974-979

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Zha, Zhi Qiang ^a   Bai, Lian Fa ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Character contour; Character segmentation; Edge detection; Template matching

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TEMPLATE; CHARACTER CONTOUR; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; LICENSE PLATE IMAGES; LIGHT INTENSITY; SPATIAL SCALABILITY; STRONG ROBUSTNESS;

CRACKS; EDGE DETECTION;

TEMPLATE MATCHING;

EID: 84883038905     PISSN: 16609336     EISSN: 16627482     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.333-335.974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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