Vehicle license plate detection and recognition is one of the active research areas now a day. There are two main stages in most license plate character recognition systems: features extraction and classification. There are several methods for detection of license plates in various conditions. Features can be extracted through various methods. Artificial Neural Networks are the most popular classification methods used for character recognition systems. In this paper, various techniques for detection and recognition of license plates are discussed.

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