Detection and recognition of license plate characters with different appearances

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 979-984

  Wang, Shen Zheng ^a   Lee, Hsi Jian ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Image orientation detection; License plate detection; License plate recognition; Rotation free character recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ROTATION; TRANSPORTATION;

AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; DETECTION METHODS; GEOMETRICAL FEATURES; IMAGE ORIENTATION DETECTION; LICENSE PLATE DETECTION; LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION; ROTATION-FREE; VERTICAL GRADIENTS;

LICENSE PLATES (AUTOMOBILE);

EID: 84955480427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2003.1252632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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