Vehicle Plate Monitoring and Information System Using Optical Character Recognition (OC) Technique

Abstract

The existing license plate recognition is designed usually for automatic toll collection, maintaining traffic activities and law enforcement. The researches put an innovation to make and used this kind of system in which it may resolve the problem of inaccurate data of vehicles entering school premises of Mindanao University of Science and Technology (MUST).This problem then leads to the motivation of the researchers to conduct a research project about monitoring vehicles automatically. The system followed the steps of image processing with OCR. Using OCR the VPMIS is capable to convert captured images into a string and can be viewed as a text. Converted text will try to match text data from the database; if there is a match, the logs will be stored, if it doesn't the system will capture and save images into one folder. System Performance testing shows that 99.9 % the Vehicle Plate Monitoring and Information System (VPMIS) can detect license plate and 67% the system is capable to record with a specified parameter at two (2) meters away from the camera. The capacity to which the maximum limits of the system parameters meets the requirements