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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130435
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License Plates Detection and Recognition with Multi-Exposure Images

Author 1: Seong-O Shim
Author 2: Romil Imtiaz
Author 3: Asif Siddiq
Author 4: Ishtiaq Rasool Khan

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 13 Issue 4, 2022.

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Abstract: Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) has been an important research topic for many years in the intelligent transportation system and image recognition fields. License Plate (LP) detection and recognition has always been a challenging issue due to several factors, including different weather and lighting, unavoidable data acquisition noise, and requirement for real-time performance in state-of-the-art Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications. Different techniques have been proposed based on machine learning, deep learning, and image processing for the detection and recognition of LPs. This paper proposes a method that performs vehicle LP detection and character recognition with high accuracy by using artificially generated multi-exposure images of the LP. First, one under-exposed and three over-exposed images are generated from a reference image taken from the camera. Then, LP detection and character recognition algorithms are applied on these five images – one real image and four synthesized images. At each character location in LP, the character detected with the highest confidence level among these images is selected as the final predicted character. The system is fully automated, and no pre-processing, calibration, or configuration procedures are needed. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves high accuracy and works robustly even in challenging conditions. The proposed method can be used in any existing ALPR system and the results on three recent ALPR techniques show that the accuracies are further improved when they are combined with the proposed method.

Keywords: License plate detection; character recognition; multi-exposure images; convolutional neural networks

Seong-O Shim, Romil Imtiaz, Asif Siddiq and Ishtiaq Rasool Khan, “License Plates Detection and Recognition with Multi-Exposure Images” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 13(4), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130435

@article{Shim2022,
title = {License Plates Detection and Recognition with Multi-Exposure Images},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130435},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130435},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {13},
number = {4},
author = {Seong-O Shim and Romil Imtiaz and Asif Siddiq and Ishtiaq Rasool Khan}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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