Detection of License Plates of Vehicles

dc.contributor.author	Wanniarachchi, W. K. I. L.
dc.contributor.author	Sonnadara, D.U.J.
dc.contributor.author	Jayananda, M. K.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-19T05:08:42Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-19T05:08:42Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the Technical Sessions, Institute of Physics Sri Lanka, 23 (2007) 13-18	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://archive.cmb.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/70130/3259
dc.description.abstract	This paper presents an image processing approach for the detection of the vehicle license plate area in digitized photographic images. The algorithm takes a raster image of the rear view of a vehicle as input and yields the segment of the photograph that contains the plate as the output. The developed algorithm is based on three basic processing stages; yellow regions extraction, dilation of yellow regions and extraction of the plate region. The performance of the developed algorithm has been tested on a set of real images of vehicles. Preliminary tests show that the algorithm performs quite well in accurately locating the license plates (with 97% efficiency). The results of this work can be extended for the automatic detection and recognition of vehicle license plates for vehicle identification.
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Image processing	en_US
dc.subject	Vehicle detection	en_US
dc.title	Detection of License Plates of Vehicles	en_US
dc.type	Research paper	en_US