Vehicle License Plate Recognition Research Articles

Recognition of vehicle license plates in highway scenes with deep fusion network and connectionist temporal classification

AbstractLicense plate recognition is crucial in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for vehicle management, traffic monitoring, and security inspection. In highway scenarios, this task faces challenges such as diversity, blurriness, occlusion, and illumination variation of license plates. This article explores Recurrent Neural Networks based on Connectionist Temporal Classification (RNN‐CTC) for license plate recognition in challenging highway conditions. Four neural network models: ResNet50, ResNeXt, InceptionV3, and SENet, all combined with RNN‐CTC are comparatively evaluated. Furthermore, a novel architecture named ResNet50 Deep Fusion Network using Connectionist Temporal Classification (ResNet50‐DFN‐CTC) is proposed. Comparative and ablation experiments are conducted using the Highway License Plate Dataset of Southeast University (HLPD‐SU). Results demonstrate the superior performance of ResNet50‐DFN‐CTC in challenging highway conditions, achieving 93.158% accuracy with a processing time of 7.91 ms, outperforming other tested models. This research contributes to advancing license plate recognition technology for real‐world highway applications under adverse conditions.

Enhancing Automated Vehicle License Plate Recognition with YOLOv8 and EasyOCR

This research focuses on the development of an automatic system for vehicle license plate recognition using YOLOv8, EasyOCR, and CNN methods for object classification. The main issue raised is the need for an accurate and efficient system for recognizing vehicle license plates in real-time in dynamic environments, especially in urban areas with high traffic levels. The method used in this study involves resizing the input image to 416x416 pixels to standardize the data, analyzing the YOLO architecture that divides the image into a 7x7 grid, and using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm for feature extraction and object classification. Object detection uses the YOLOv8 method which is tasked with recognizing license plates using a previously trained YOLO (pretrained model) model then implemented and tested using video with 4k quality to ensure its effectiveness in detecting vehicle license plate objects, followed by the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process with the EasyOCR method to read text on license plates and tested to ensure its effectiveness in reading characters on license plates vehicle number. The purpose of this research is to develop a system that can improve accuracy and efficiency in vehicle license plate recognition. The results show that the accuracy, precision, recall and F1-Score for object detection reach 100% and the average percentage of detected text conformity is 74.66%, which shows that this system is reliable in real applications and contributes to the development of automatic license plate recognition technology.

Hetero-associative Memory Based New Iraqi License Plate Recognition

نتيجة للتطورات الأخيرة في أبحاث الطرق السريعة بالإضافة إلى زيادة استخدام المركبات، كان هناك اهتمام كبير بنظام النقل الذكي الأكثر حداثة وفعالية ودقة (ITS) في مجال رؤية الكمبيوتر أو معالجة الصور الرقمية، يلعب تحديد كائنات معينة في صورة دورًا مهمًا في إنشاء صورة شاملة. هناك تحدٍ مرتبط بالتعرف على لوحة ترخيص السيارة (VLPR) بسبب الاختلاف في وجهة النظر، والتنسيقات المتعددة، وظروف الإضاءة غير الموحدة في وقت الحصول على الصورة والشكل واللون، بالإضافة إلى الصعوبات مثل ضعف دقة الصورة ، الصورة الباهتة ، الإضاءة السيئة، التباين المنخفض، يجب التغلب عليها. اقترحت هذه الورقة نموذجًا باستخدام تعديل الذاكرة الترابطية ثنائية الاتجاه (MBAM)، وهي نوع واحد من الذاكرة الترابطية غير المتجانسة، وتعمل MBAM على مرحلتين)مرحلتي التعلم والتقارب) للتعرف على اللوحة، ويمكن لهذا النموذج المقترح التغلب على تلك الصعوبات بسبب قدرة الذاكرة الترابطية لـ MBAM على قبول الضوضاء وتمييز الصور المشوهة، وكذلك سرعة عملية الحساب نظرًا لصغر حجم الشبكة. نتيجة دقة تحديد منطقة اللوحة هي 99.6٪، ودقة تجزئة الأحرف 98٪، والدقة المحققة للتعرف على الأحرف هي100 ٪ في ظروف مختلفة.

A Real-Time License Plate Detection and Recognition Model in Unconstrained Scenarios.

Accurate and fast recognition of vehicle license plates from natural scene images is a crucial and challenging task. Existing methods can recognize license plates in simple scenarios, but their performance degrades significantly in complex environments. A novel license plate detection and recognition model YOLOv5-PDLPR is proposed, which employs YOLOv5 target detection algorithm in the license plate detection part and uses the PDLPR algorithm proposed in this paper in the license plate recognition part. The PDLPR algorithm is mainly designed as follows: (1) A Multi-Head Attention mechanism is used to accurately recognize individual characters. (2) A global feature extractor network is designed to improve the completeness of the network for feature extraction. (3) The latest parallel decoder architecture is adopted to improve the inference efficiency. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has better accuracy and speed than the comparison algorithms, can achieve real-time recognition, and has high efficiency and robustness in complex scenes.

Docker Container-Based Framework of Apache Kafka Node Ecosystem: Vehicle Tracking System by License Plate Recognition on Surveillance Camera Feeds

Vehicle tracking and license plate recognition (LPR) over video surveillance cameras are essential intelligent traffic monitoring systems. Due to the enormous amount of data collected each day, it would be difficult to track vehicles by license plate in a real-world traffic setting. Large volumes of data processing, real-time request responses, and emergency scenario response may not be possible using conventional approaches. By combining license plate recognition with the docker container-based structure of the Apache Kafka node ecosystem, the suggested solution takes a novel approach to vehicle tracking. The primary components of our suggested framework for reading license plates are the identification of license plates and text data queries. License plate localization is performed with You Only Look Once version 3 (YOLOv3) and character recognition with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The detected vehicle images with license plate results are published on related topics with Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is a publish-subscribe (producers-consumers) messaging system and one of the most popular architectures used for streaming data. For each license plate search, a topic will be created in the framework where producers publish and consumers receive data. Thus, the workload of the operators will be reduced and they will be able to pay attention to more important events in traffic.

Penerapan Metode Interpolasi Linear dan Geometric Mean Filter Pada Citra Resolusi Rendah Hasil Resampling

In addition to the color representation contained in a digital image, the size of the image will also greatly affect the image processing process. In some cases of image acquisition, sometimes the size of the image obtained does not correspond to the desired one. Pattern recognition processes, such as vehicle license plate recognition, may result in incorrect output if the size of the processed input image is not appropriate. Therefore, determining the size of a digital image is very important in further image processing. To solve such problems can be done by enlarging the size of the image through the process of interpolation or resampling. Image magnification is the process of enlarging the size of a digital image from its original size to a new and different size based on the desired magnification scale. However, as a result of enlarging the image obtained there is always a blur, so the image will look like a checkerboard (split). This situation occurs because during the magnification process the resolution of the new image becomes lower. Thus, additional methods are needed to improve the image quality of the resampling results. This study aims to improve the low-resolution image quality of resampling results by applying Linear Interpolation and Geometric Mean Filter methods. The test results showed that the Linear Interpolation method was able to produce a new image that was larger than the original image and the Geometric Mean Filter method could improve the image quality of the enlarged image so that the details of the information in the image are better and clearly seen visually. And to find out if the image enlarged from the Linear Interpolation and Geometric Mean Filter is good or not, we will use the Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) methods. Keywords : Image, Interpolasi Linear,Geometric Mean Filter, PSNR, MSE.

Detection and Recognition of Vehicle License Plates Using Deep Learning in Challenging Conditions, A Systematic Review

Detection and Recognition of Vehicle License Plates Using Deep Learning in Challenging Conditions, A Systematic Review

Vehicle license plate recognition system with artificial intelligence for the detection of alerted vehicles at the National University of Ucayali

Introduction: technological advances have led to the creation of artificial intelligence, implementing it in tasks until recently developed directly by man, as in the case of parking lot surveillance.Objective: to learn about the application of a vehicle license plate recognition system with artificial intelligence for the detection of alerted vehicles at the National University of Ucayali during the period 2022-2023.Methods: qualitative approach study, inductive method and descriptive research level; the population consisted of university personnel over 19 years of age, regardless of gender and whose employment status was by appointment or contract, among whom a non-probabilistic sampling was applied, established in thirteen people, to whom an interview composed of twelve items was applied and who filled out an informed consent form, guaranteeing confidentiality, to have reliable data and scientific integrity of the same.Results: there are favorable and unfavorable opinions; the former are contributed by people who understand the process and agree with its implementation, while the latter respond to doubts generated by the lack of information and institutional communication.Conclusions: it is necessary to improve the communication system to avoid misinterpretations, doubts, and confusions in the use of private data, giving the users of the campus the certainty that the advances, in cooperation with the competent authorities, result in an adequate progress for the organization and control of their assets

Method of vehicle license plate recognition in haze weather based on deep learning

Method of vehicle license plate recognition in haze weather based on deep learning

Deep Learning Based Automatic Vehicle License Plate Recognition System for Enhanced Vehicle Identification

An innovative Automatic Vehicle License Plate Recognition (AVLPR) system that effectively identifies vehicles using deep learning algorithms. Accurate and real-time license plate identification has grown in importance with the rise in demand for improved security and traffic management.The convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture used in the AVLPR system enables the model to automatically learn and extract discriminative characteristics from photos of license plates. To ensure the system's robustness and adaptability, the dataset utilized for training and validation includes a wide range of license plate designs, fonts, and lighting situations.We incorporate data augmentation approaches to accommodate differences in license plate orientation, scale, and perspective throughout the training process to improve recognition accuracy. Additionally, we use transfer learning to enhance the system's generalization abilities by refining the pre-trained model on a sizable dataset.A trustworthy and effective solution for vehicle identification duties is provided by the Deep Learning-Based Automatic Vehicle License Plate Recognition System. Deep learning approaches are used to guarantee precise and instantaneous recognition, making it suitable for many uses such as law enforcement, parking management, and intelligent transportation systems.

Sistem Pemantauan Slot Parkir Menggunakan Sensor Ultrasonik JSN-SR04T dan Pengenalan Plat Nomor Kendaraan dengan ESP32-CAM

A parking slot monitoring system prototype has been produced using the JSN-SR04T ultrasonic sensor and vehicle license plate recognition with ESP32-CAM. The system was created to make it easier for motorists to monitor the availability of parking slots remotely by utilizing Telegram which is connected to the ESP32-CAM module and Arduino Mega 2560. The ultrasonic sensor detects the distance of vehicles entering or exiting the parking lot, then a servo motor opens the entry and exit bars. Vehicle users can monitor the availability of parking slots on the Telegram bot. In each slot there is an ultrasonic sensor that detects the distance so that it can find out whether there is a vehicle in the slot. The test results show that the ultrasonic sensor has an average error percentage of 0.65%. The parking barrier can be opened when the ultrasonic sensor detects the presence of a vehicle at the entrance or exit and the ultrasonic sensor can detect the presence of a vehicle according to the conditions in the slot. The system is equipped with vehicle license plate character recognition using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) method. Through the ESP32-CAM module camera webserver, the OCR program can detect vehicle plates with the furthest distance of 140 cm using video resolution (400x296) and 300 cm using video resolution (1600x1200). The OCR program can read the vehicle plate characters correctly and the results for the number of characters obtained correspond to the license plate being tested, then the vehicle plate data is stored in the database

Bounding Box and Thresholding in Optical Character Recognition for Car License Plate Recognition

License plate recognition plays a central role in a variety of application contexts, including traffic management, automated parking, and law enforcement. Among the various approaches available, the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technique has proven its effectiveness in recognizing characters in license plate images. This study describes an approach for detecting and recognizing vehicle license plates by utilizing the OCR method with Bounding Box, Thresholding, and template matching. In addition, this study uses MATLAB R2022a software as the main tool in developing and implementing the method. The goal is to recognize vehicle license plates from images, describe their characteristics, and generate relevant information. This approach involves a series of image processing steps starting with the pre-processing stage, followed by the process of binarization and license plate segmentation. After successfully isolating the license plate area, isolating the character using a bounding box is performed using image separation techniques. The OCR method is used to recognize license plate characters through comparison using the correlation method. Through a series of experiments on several image datasets, this approach succeeded in showing that out of 20 sampled license plate images, the results obtained were a reading accuracy of 93.55% of 100%, recognizing 13 out of 20 license plate images accurately when tested. Thus, the findings of this research are expected to contribute to the recognition of vehicle license plates that are accurate and efficient, by utilizing image processing techniques and OCR methods implemented using MATLAB R2022a software.

MVSR Normalization Algorithm Method for Improving Vehicle License Plate Recognition

Image processing and embedded systems are used in many applications such as object recognition, robotic applications, autonomous and remote control systems developed for the defense industry, medical applications, face recognition, and vehicle license plate recognition. Many vehicle license number plate detection methods are not effective under vehicle license plate images have a degree of rotation or low resolution images. Thus, we used MVSR normalization algorithm to detect vehicle license plate recognition for better accuracy and lower computational cost. The MVSR normalization algorithm, Mean–Variance-Softmax-Rescale processes respectively is applied for high-accuracy real-time vehicle license plate detection.

Number Plate Detection in an Image

Automatic Vehicle license plate detection and recognition is a key technique in most of traffic related applications and is an active research topic in the image processing domain. Different methods, techniques and algorithms have been developed for license plate detection and recognitions. Due to the varying characteristics of the license plate like numbering system, colors, style and sizes of license plate, When detection and recognition are two separate jobs, which also results in a huge number of factors, there is an issue with identification. So,further research is still needed in this area. We propose a unified convolutional neural network (CNN) and the F1 score as metrics in a deep learning project for picture categorization which can localize license plates and recognize the letters. We work on license plate recognition and segments characters in the license plate firstly, and then recognizes each segmented character using Optical Character Recognition(OCR)techniques. Extensive experiments show the effectiveness and the efficiency of our proposed approach.

LOKALISASI PLAT NOMOR DENGAN JAVA MENGGUNAKAN DETEKSI TEPI CANNY DAN FILTER MORFOLOGI

This study aims to introduce an automatic vehicle identification system based on vehicle licenses and license plate recognition. This Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system software uses a series of image processing algorithms captured by a camera with a high degree of accuracy and has the efficiency to recognize license plates and then identify vehicles from datasets stored on a Personal Computer (PC). This study uses an algorithm for license plate localization by implementing the Canny edge detection algorithm and a morphological filter.The methodology used is to develop a Number Plate (NP) localization method including the following steps: (1) Color conversion, image enhancement (using sharpness filters and gamma correction), Canny edge detection and alignment (skeletonization); stage (2) morphological filter-based method to determine the Region of Interest (ROI), namely a rectangular box containing a Number Plate (NP). A rectangular bounding box is drawn across the area in the original image that contains the NP after the NP are localized. The bounding box is equal to the width of the image plus one pixel and the height of the NP plus one pixel.The results showed that this method succeeded in achieving a localization rate of about 72.0%. The method used for license plate localization is able to localize license plates with clear boundaries and unambiguous separation of other related components. This research can be further developed to include more functions so that it can be used by all elements of society from researchers to law enforcers.

Image Enhancement and Automated Number Plate Recognition

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and Vehicle Number plate detection (VNPD) systems. ANPR, is a technology that enables automatic detection, recognition, and identification of vehicle license plates, while VNPD is a subset of ANPR that focuses specifically on detecting and recognizing license plates.Several researchers have explored different approaches to ANPR and VNPD systems, as evidenced by the various papers listed. For instance, presented an e security system for vehicles number tracking at a parking lot, proposed a method of monitoring traffic signals, and violations using ANPR and GSM. In order to proceed, the conventional Grab Cut algorithm must first interactively give a candidate frame. for the target detection job to be done.To automate the identification of the licence plate by the Grab Cut algorithm, we update the candidate frame by incorporating the aspect ratio of the licence plate as the foreground extraction feature. Then, to fully implement picture noise reduction, we combined the Bernsen algorithm with the Wiener filter, which is extensively used in the fields of digital signal processing in order to increase the detection precision of conventional target identification techniques. Overall, the papers listed in the question demonstrate the wide-ranging applications of ANPR and VNPD technologies, from parking lot security to traffic signal control to driver assistance systems. These technologies have the potential to improve safety, efficiency, and security on the road, and researchers continue to explore new approaches to their development and implementation. Keywords: Detection of Number Plate, Convolutional Neural Network-(CNN), Object detection, character identification, Machine Learning-(ML).

A Research Survey on Real-Time Intelligent Traffic System

Nowadays, it is crucial to continuously monitor and provide real-time analysis to reduce traffic-related accidents and practices such as vehicle overloading on the roads daily. As a result, we reviewed the literature's numerous methods and techniques for vehicle detection, recognition, identification, speed estimation, and license plate recognition. In this analysis, we examined 42 articles published in the last ten years, from 2012 to 2022. Based on our research, we found that the Deep CNN is the optimum method for vehicle categorization. The motivation of this review is that none of the aforementioned models are combined into a single model, so we present a comprehensive list of all these models that may be helpful to anyone conducting the study in this area. Therefore, after reviewing the chosen research publications, we propose 20+ datasets that might be used in the field for more research. We also discovered 15+ different ML models used to detect and identify vehicles. Finally, we observed that combining machine learning and AI (Artificial Intelligence) to create intelligent traffic control systems is a promising research area.

A Multi-Stage Deep-Learning-Based Vehicle and License Plate Recognition System with Real-Time Edge Inference.

Video streaming-based real-time vehicle identification and license plate recognition systems are challenging to design and deploy in terms of real-time processing on edge, dealing with low image resolution, high noise, and identification. This paper addresses these issues by introducing a novel multi-stage, real-time, deep learning-based vehicle identification and license plate recognition system. The system is based on a set of algorithms that efficiently integrate two object detectors, an image classifier, and a multi-object tracker to recognize car models and license plates. The information redundancy of Saudi license plates' Arabic and English characters is leveraged to boost the license plate recognition accuracy while satisfying real-time inference performance. The system optimally achieves real-time performance on edge GPU devices and maximizes models' accuracy by taking advantage of the temporally redundant information of the video stream's frames. The edge device sends a notification of the detected vehicle and its license plate only once to the cloud after completing the processing. The system was experimentally evaluated on vehicles and license plates in real-world unconstrained environments at several parking entrance gates. It achieves 17.1 FPS on a Jetson Xavier AGX edge device with no delay. The comparison between the accuracy on the videos and on static images extracted from them shows that the processing of video streams using this proposed system enhances the relative accuracy of the car model and license plate recognition by 13% and 40%, respectively. This research work has won two awards in 2021 and 2022.

A Method for the Fusion of Results from RFID and VLPR

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Vehicle License Plate Recognition (VLPR) are two main methods for vehicle identification. How to fusion the recognition results of the two methods is a problem that needs to be solved in practice. The existing fusion technology usually uses trigger acquisition for precise matching, or uses one recognition result as a reference to perform matching in another result set, while these technology does not provide a clearly algorithm or has certain limitations, and is not universal. A matching algorithm is presented in this paper, which takes advantage of the similarity metric between the results from RFID and VLPR, thus eliminating the drawbacks of existing match methods. The algorithm calculates the similarity metric of the results from RFID and VLPR by the vehicle license plate character graphics similarity, then find matching results from the two recognition results in a specific time window, finally work out precise matching result or similar matching result. The presented algorithm is simple but effective, with no need to triggering RFID and VLPR simultaneously. The algorithm can output both precise matches and similar matches. Through the verification results in the real road scene, the performance in the license plate similarity calculation and fusion matching process is consistent with expectations, which shows the effectiveness of the algorithm.

An efficient automated vehicle license plate recognition system under image processing

<span lang="EN-US">An automated vehicle license plate recognition system using image processing techniques identifies vehicle numbers without human interference. This system has significant impact because of its good application in various fields like car parking, access control, speed control, automatic toll collection, border security, traffic violence detection and surveillance applications. This paper presents a methodology that is quite simple but at the same time very much efficient and this system consists of four sequential modules which are preprocessing, number plate extraction, number plate character segmentation and character recognition. Preprocessing aims to improve the image quality that is captured in various illumination conditions and stick out outstanding information that we need, which is favorable to subsequent processing including extraction, segmentation and recognition. After preprocessing various morphological operations are applied to extract the desired license plate region. Then for segmentation the bounding box method is applied that segments each letter and number present on the license plate region. Finally, template matching is applied in identifying all segmented characters present in the license plate image. The experimental results showed that the proposed system can recognize license plate characters efficiently with higher accuracy. Using MATLAB software, the proposed method attains recognition accuracy of 94.17%.</span>