Vehicle Number Plate Detection

Abstract

Real Time Number Plate Recognition System is an image processing technology which uses number (license) plate to identify the vehicle. The objective is to design an efficient automatic authorized vehicle identification system by using the vehicle number plate. Number plate recognition (NPR) can be used in various fields such as vehicle tracking, traffic monitoring, automatic payment of tolls on highways or bridges, surveillance systems, tolls collection points, and parking management systems. The developed system first detects the vehicle and then captures the vehicle image. Vehicle number plate region is localized using Neural Network(rcnn) then image segmentation is done on the image. Character recognition technique is used for the character extraction from the plate. The resulting data is then stored in a database along with the time-stamp. The system is implemented and simulated in python, and its performance is tested on real image.