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Automatic License Plate Recognition Technique using Convolutional Neural Network

by Surajit Das, Joydeep Mukherjee
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 169 - Number 4
Year of Publication: 2017
Authors: Surajit Das, Joydeep Mukherjee
10.5120/ijca2017914723

Surajit Das, Joydeep Mukherjee . Automatic License Plate Recognition Technique using Convolutional Neural Network. International Journal of Computer Applications. 169, 4 ( Jul 2017), 32-36. DOI=10.5120/ijca2017914723

@article{ 10.5120/ijca2017914723,
author = { Surajit Das, Joydeep Mukherjee },
title = { Automatic License Plate Recognition Technique using Convolutional Neural Network },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Jul 2017 },
volume = { 169 },
number = { 4 },
month = { Jul },
year = { 2017 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 32-36 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume169/number4/27975-2017914723/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2017914723 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Surajit Das
%A Joydeep Mukherjee
%T Automatic License Plate Recognition Technique using Convolutional Neural Network
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 169
%N 4
%P 32-36
%D 2017
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

This research work purposes an automated system for recognizing license plate technique using Convolutional Neural Network. On Indian roads there are variety of number plate format and variety of fonts are used in vehicles and the most common vehicle number plate used yellow or white as background and black used as foreground color. The proposed model can be partitioned into four parts-1) Digitization of image 2) character segmentation 3) Padding and Resize 4) Character Recognition. Here, Character Segmentation is done using connected component analysis. After that convolutional neural Network is used for recognition of characters. In the proposed system, Character segmentation and resize and padding of the image is done using MATLAB and Character Recognition part is done using PYTHON. The performance of the proposed algorithm has been tested on real car images. The proposed system is mainly applicable to West Bengal cars’ license plates. Experimental verification is done using a dataset of 45 images in different environmental conditions.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Number Plate recognition character segmentation convolutional neural network character recognition.