Vehicle Number Plate Recognition Research Articles

Vehicle Number Plate Recognition

Recognizing vehicle number plates is a difficult but much needed system. This is very useful for automating toll booths, automated signal breakers identification, finding out traffic rule breakers and to detect stolen vehicles. The developed system consist of a Raspberry Pi based vehicle number plate recognition system that automatically recognizes vehicle’s number plate using image processing. The system uses a digital camera interfaced to a Raspberry pi processor. A rear image of vehicle is captured and processed using various algorithms. The system constantly processes incoming camera footage to detect any trace of number plates. On sensing a number plate in front of the camera, it processes the camera input and extracts the number plate part from the image. The image is extracted using OCR. And by using CNN techniques, the number is extracted from the image. The system then displays the extracted number. The implemented system consist of a fully functional vehicle number plate recognition system using Raspberry Pi considering success rate and processing time as parameters. The developed system can be used for security purpose in housing societies to monitor the entry/exit of authorized vehicles. It is observed that the developed system successfully detects and recognizes the vehicle number plate on real time images. The system accuracy is about 80%

Enhancing Automatic Vehicle Number Plate Recognition Systems: A Multidimensional Approach to Improve Efficiency and Applicability

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. No plate help for movement of traffic securely without any collision. They can reduce the number of accidents on roads like pedestrian accident and right-angle collision of two cars. 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 system is implemented and simulated in python, and its performance is tested on real image. Automatic vehicle 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 vehicle detection and recognitions but they are not very useful for parking system. In this project we aim to make an application which will help for society and mostly for corporation buldings in each state for doing their work very efficiently and in very small time. Live camera feeds are the primary input we give the system. On the main gate is a camera. When a car or bike passes in front of the camera, the camera reads the number plate number. Using an OCR algorithm, this vehicle can be determined to be authorized or not. If the car is not allowed in the premises the notification will be activated. authorized popup will be on if the vehicle is authorized

License Plate Detection Based on Open CV

In this project a new approach of automatic vehicle number plate recognition in National Highways and this approach enables the vehicle to automatically pass the NH roads by using object detection, 3D environment construction, virtual line generation, path planning. The system is to monitor the vehicles that are entering and going out of the NH roads. All vehicles have their own unique license plate number, so the abstraction of plate number plays a major role in this system. The vehicle number plate is taken by the tool like machine learning based camera which is placed at the road junctions. The captured image will be processed by the automatic number plate recognition using OCR (optical character recognition) algorithm, here we using Gaussians filters for remove the blueness of the image using a Gaussian kernel suppresses only high-frequency spatial information. Then the entry and exit vehicle number should be recorded. A database is created with the vehicle number. This method is an efficient way of recognizing the vehicle number plate and strengthen the security system. In case of centralized receiver all the entrance records are kept in storage and it will check the presence of theft vehicle entering into the NH roads, it will be noticed and capture the vehicle image and vehicle information’s will be send to authorized person using IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). The OCR technique is used to identify the number. This system has many advantages like theft detection, less man power, user friendly, vehicle logging and less processing time.

Enhanced Surveillance: Developing a Computer Vision-based CCTV Footage Analysis Tool for Improved Vehicle Number Plate Recognition

Abstract: Smart parking systems serve as integral components in augmenting the efficiency and sustainability of modern urban environments. Nonetheless, prevailing systems predominantly rely on sensors to monitor parking space occupancy, entailing substantial installation and maintenance costs while offering limited functionality in tracking vehicle movement within parking lots. To confront these challenges head-on, our solution introduces a multistage learning-based approach, capitalizing on the existing surveillance infrastructure within parking facilities and a meticulously curated dataset of Saudi license plates. Our approach amalgamates YOLOv5 for license plate detection, YOLOv8 for character detection, and a novel convolutional neural network architecture tailored for enhanced character recognition. We illustrate the superiority of our approach over single-stage methods, achieving an impressive overall accuracy of 96.1%, a notable advancement from the 83.9% accuracy of single-stage approaches. Furthermore, our solution seamlessly integrates into a web-based dashboard, facilitating real-time visualization and statistical analysis of parking space occupancy and vehicle movement, all accomplished with commendable time efficiency. This endeavor underscores the potential of leveraging existing technological resources to bolster the operational efficiency and environmental sustainability of smart cities. By harnessing the power of machine learning and computer vision, our work exemplifies a paradigm shift towards smarter and more adaptive urban infrastructure

CNN based System for Automatic Number Plate Recognition

This study presents a comprehensive approach to Automated Vehicle Number Plate Detection and Recognition, employing image processing and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The system encompasses two main stages: number plate detection and recognition. Utilizing a digital camera, the system employs image processing to segment the number plate region accurately. A super-resolution method is then applied via CNNs to enhance the image quality. Subsequently, a bounding box method isolates individual characters for precise recognition. In the recognition phase, CNNs extract features for effective classification. The study aims to advance automated vehicle identification systems for law enforcement and parking management applications, promising accurate and efficient number plate detection and recognition. The proposed work has also developed a user interface to ensure the successfulness of the objectives aimed.

Comparison Study About Vehicle Detection and Plate Number Recognition

Vehicle detection is crucial to the management of Intelligent Transportation Systems of urban traffic. Optical character recognition is many systems use, like the automatic number plate recognition system (NPR). Using various techniques and methodologies, such as convolution or deep neural networks, morphological operations, optical character recognition, and edge detection, such a system has been widely utilized to identify car license plates. Numerous applications algorithms of vehicle identification become possible after the development of many helpful techniques in computer vision and the availability number of related images as a dataset. In this paper, the various plate numbers of the specific vehicle will be and reviewed. Vehicle detection systems suffer from a variety of difficulties and constraints such as the all the surrounding state of clarity for the license plate, non-standard formats of the plate, complex situations, camera quality and clarity, the position and distance of the camera, the distortion in the image, contrast issues, reflections and the state day and night images As a result, numerous methods for comprehending and assessing the idea behind the vehicle number plate recognition systems have been presented with simply explaining the importance and drawbacks of each system.

The Intelligent Vehicle Number Plate Recognition System based on Arduino

Abstract: The thesis proposes the development of The Intelligent Vehicle Number Plate Recognition System (IVNPRS) using the Arduino platform. The system uses image processing techniques to automatically detect and recognize vehicle number plates, and it includes a camera module, an image processing unit, and an Arduino microcontroller. The proposed system has practical applications such as security monitoring, automatic toll collection, and traffic monitoring. The thesis discusses the different components of the system, image processing techniques used, and evaluates its performance by measuring accuracy, speed, and robustness under different lighting and weather conditions. The experimental results suggest that the VNPRS has the potential to improve vehicular traffic and safety in various locations.

Devanagari Script based Fancy Vehicle Number Plate Recognition using Machine Learning Approach: A Survey

Devanagari Script based Fancy Vehicle Number Plate Recognition using Machine Learning Approach: A Survey

Automatic vehicle number plate recognition system

In simple terms, Automatic Vehicle Number Plate Recognition System (AVNPRS) can be described as a computer vision image processing technology. This technology captures images of vehicles and recognizes their number plates. As the world is becoming more sophisticated on each new day, security as well as management of transportation system have become a vital aspect in controlled places. Such places include modern campuses, shopping malls and other institutions. With today’s rate at which motor vehicles are increasing in numbers, there is need for an effective, affordable and efficient AVNPRS. Thus, this project proposes, outlines and discusses an efficient AVNPRS. The system under consideration in this project can be installed at main entrances of modern institutions. This is because the AVNPRS ensures that only authorized vehicles can automatically have access to such institutions. The AVNPRS ensures that it captures the image of the number plate once the input sensor detects the vehicle. The Sobel edge detection and Laplacian edge detection techniques are used at this critical stage. Thereafter, the Bounding box technique is used to find the number plate leading to character segmentation. After capturing, an image undergoes extraction and character investigation via the Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In addition, in achieving character recognition, matching between the computer template and segmented image is done via the OCR method. It is vital to mention that this system is sustainable as it successfully detects, recognizes and processes vehicle number plates on real images. The AVNPRS can be used for both traffic control and security. Therefore, the main aim of this piece of writing is to develop from a theoretical perspective an AVNPR system that can detect and capture vehicle number plate images.

Vehicle Number Plate Recognition Using Raspberry Pi

Vehicle number plate recognition (VNPR) systems have gained significant attention due to their wide range of applications in traffic management, parking enforcement, and security systems. This abstract presents an overview of a VNPR system that utilizes computer vision techniques and machine learning algorithms for license plate detection and recognition. The system is implemented using a Raspberry Pi platform, which provides a cost-effective and portable solution. The system follows a systematic approach to perform license plate recognition. Firstly, the camera captures images or video frames, which are then processed using the OpenCV library to enhance the visibility and quality of the license plates. License plate detection algorithms, employing edge detection or machine learning-based object detection techniques, are applied to locate and extract the license plate regions in the processed images. Following license plate detection, character segmentation techniques are utilized to isolate individual characters on the plate. Finally, integrated into the system, the Tesseract OCR engine recognizes the segmented characters and extracts the text information, effectively providing the license plate data.

Automated Vehicle Number Plate Detection and Recognition

Abstract: In this project, a Digital Image Processing-based prototype is developed. Actions such as Image Acquisition, enhancement that is pre-processing, Segmentation of the license plate and then application of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is applied to store the number on text form. The plate number is displayed as text on the terminal using the principle of OCR with help of Tesseract engine. It is seen that the security forces and authorities face problems whenever security forces chase a vehicle or they can’t catch a vehicle which broke traffic rules. Authorities find it very hectic on a busy day to log the vehicle numbers manually in a parking lot.

A hybrid location‐dependent ultra convolutional neural network‐based vehicle number plate recognition approach for intelligent transportation systems

SummaryIn today's world, identifying the owner and proprietor of a vehicle that violates driving rules or does any unintentional work on the street is a challenging task. Inspection of each driver's license number takes a long time for a highway police officer. To overcome this, many researchers have introduced an automated number plate recognition approach which is usually a computer vision‐based technique to identify the vehicle's registration plate. However, the existing recognition approaches are lagged to extract the influential features which degrade the detection accuracy and increase the misclassification errors. In this article, a novel automated number plate recognition methodology has been proposed to identify the number plates accurately with minimal error rates. Primary, a new pretrained location‐dependent ultra convolutional neural network (LUCNN) is employed to learn the influential features from the input images. These obtained features are then fed into hybrid single‐shot fully convolutional detectors with a support vector machine (SSVM) classifier to separate the vehicle's city, model, and number from the registration location. At varied automobile distances, the proposed LUCNN + SSVM model is able to retrieve the number plate regions in the picture acquired from its back end. The performance results manifest that the proposed LUCNN + SSVM model attains a better accuracy of 98.75% and a lesser error range of 1.25% than the existing recognition models.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition System (ANPR)

Object detection and Image processing are combinedly vast area of research. Various Notable works have been done in the field of transportation in order to ensure a healthy and lawful traffic environment. A precise and quick vehicle number plate recognition system is a solution to traffic control and resultant in improved regulations. This paper is based on optical character recognition which uses improved techniques and ensures optimized results. A full fledged algorithm of number plate recognition is proposed and the same acquires upgraded accuracy over existing system. The entire system can be mounted as a solution traffics issues related to law and security. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system consists integration of machine learning together with image processing and pattern identification. Optical character recognition (OCR) is an algorithm that plays an important role in automatic number plate recognition and it is one of the main aspect of Research in machine learning and computer vision that has evolved immensely since its inception.

Automatic Vehicle Number Plate Recognition Approach Using Color Detection Technique

An Automatic Vehicle Number Plate Recognition System (AVNPR) is a key research area in image processing. Various techniques are developed and tested by researchers to improve the detection and recognition rate of AVNPR system but faced problems due to issues such as variation in format, lighting conditions, scales, and colors of number plates in different countries or states or even provinces of a country. Douglas Peucker Algorithm for shape approximation has been used in this research to detect the rectangular contours and the most prominent rectangular contour is extracted as a number plate (NP) and the connected component analysis is used to segment the characters followed by optical character recognition (OCR) to recognize the number plate characters. A custom dataset of 210 vehicle images with different colors at various distances and lighting conditions was used for the proposed method captured on my smart phone Galaxy J7 Model SM-j700F at roads and parking. The dataset contains various types of vehicles (i.e. Trucks, motorcars, mini-buses, tractors, pick-ups etc). The proposed method shows an average result of 95.5%. The novelty used in this method is that it works for different colors simultaneously because in Pakistan, several colors are used for vehicle NPs.

OCR-based vehicle number plate recognition powered by a raspberry Pi

Modern technology has revolutionized automation. Security is at high priority with increasing automation. Today, to help people feel comfortable, video surveillance cameras are installed in public places like schools, hospitals, and other buildings. The main goal of this research work is to automatically collect vehicle images with a camera using a Raspberry Pi and recognising the licence plate of the vehicles. Vehicle number plate recognition is a challenging but crucial system. This is highly helpful for automating toll booths, identifying automated signal violators, and identifying traffic regulation violators. In this work, a Raspberry Pi is used for vehicle license plate recognition, which uses image processing to automatically recognize license plates. Incoming camera footage is continuously processed by the system to look for any signs of number plates. When the camera detects a number plate, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technique is used to process the image and extract the number from it. The distance to an object is calculated by a sensor utilizing sound waves. The extracted number is then displayed by the system. This can be used for additional authentication.

A study of the automated vehicle number plate recognition system

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) uses number plates to identify vehicles. The goal of an automated vehicle identification system is to identify the vehicle based on the number plate. The system enforces the regulations, parking, etc. It can also be used at the entrance to protect a large area, such as a military zone or the region around important government buildings like the military base, Parliament, Supreme Court, etc. The smart technology recognizes and captures the image of the vehicle. The number plate area of the vehicle is extracted using image segmentation on the image. Optical character recognition is used for character recognition. The performance data may also be compared to database records to determine the car owner, enrollment location, residence, etc. The testing showed that the improved algorithm easily recognized the number plate of a vehicle on genuine photographs.

Automatic vehicle number plate recognition : using deep learning algorithms to estimate the vehicle storage

Identification and tracking of vehicles are essential for control and surveillance of transport systems. It is important not only for traffic control but also to estimate vehicle storage within a cordon of city.

License Plate Detection and Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network

Vehicle Number Plate Detection and Recognition system are very helpful and necessary for efficient traffic monitoring and management. From various angles, the interested vehicle's images can be captured by using some of the strong image processing technique devices for the growth of the smart transport system. Identifying the number plates with the side view images, images with moving distance, numbering, and the number plate type by identifying the background can be improved by using a recognition technique that may contain the combination of the image processing technology combined with neural networks. The tilted images and side view images of moving vehicles can be identified by using a neural network. This can be further useful for the identification of vehicle owners, vehicle model identification, controlling the traffic, controlling the vehicle speed, and tracking of vehicle location. Some algorithms like super-resolution of images can be used for the improvement of low-resolution images. In the future, to gain a better accuracy rate, high-resolution cameras can be used which contain high frames.

Automatic Vehicle Number Plate Recognition System Using Machine Learning

The number plate recognition (NPR) system is one of the categories of smart transportation and detection mechanism (STDM). This is a combination of the technology in which the application enables the system to detect and automatically read the license id of number plate of vehicle from digitally captured images. Automatically capturing the license plate is the process of detecting and transforming the pixels data of a digital image into the plain text data or ASCII text of the number plate. Our project contains a method for the vehicle number plate recognition from the image using mathematical morphological operations (erosion, dilation). The main objective is to use and combine different morphological operations in such a way that the license plate of the certain vehicle can be detected and translatedeffectively. This is based on various operation such as image improvement, Gray scale transformation, Bilateral Filtering edge detection and getting the number plate from the picture of vehicle. After the completion of the above-mentioned steps, now the process of segmentation is being applied to detect the text present on number plate by making use ofmatching of template and OCR. This system is able to detect the license number accurately as well as quickly from the vehicle’s picture.

A review on various methodologies used for vehicle classification, helmet detection and number plate recognition

Vehicle detection and classification has been an area of application of image processing and machine learning which is being researched extensively in accordance with its importance due to increasing number of vehicles, traffic rule defaulters and accidents. This paper aims to review various methodologies used and how it has evolved to give better results in the past years, closely moving towards usage of machine learning. This has resulted in advancing the problem statement towards helmet detection followed by number plate detection of defaulters. Object detection and Text recognition that are available in various frameworks offer built-in models which are easy to use or offer easy methods to build and train customized models.