SMART RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR THE ALPHANUMERIC - Content in Car License Plates

A. Akoum, B. Daya, P. Chauvet

2009

Abstract

A license plate recognition system is an automatic system that is able to recognize a license plate number, extracted from an image device. Such system is useful in many fields and places: parking lots, private and public entrances, border control, theft and vandalism control. In our paper we designed such a system. First we separated each digit from the license plate using image processing tools. Then we built a classifier, using a training set based on digits extracted from approximately 350 license plates. Our approach is considered to identify vehicle through recognizing of its license plate using two different types of neural networks: Hopfield and the multi layer perceptron "MLP". A comparative result has shown the ability to recognize the license plate successfully.

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Akoum A., Daya B. and Chauvet P. (2009). SMART RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR THE ALPHANUMERIC - Content in Car License Plates . In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-014-6, pages 565-568. DOI: 10.5220/0002321805650568


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icnc09,
author={A. Akoum and B. Daya and P. Chauvet},
title={SMART RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR THE ALPHANUMERIC - Content in Car License Plates},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={565-568},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002321805650568},
isbn={978-989-674-014-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009)
TI - SMART RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR THE ALPHANUMERIC - Content in Car License Plates
SN - 978-989-674-014-6
AU - Akoum A.
AU - Daya B.
AU - Chauvet P.
PY - 2009
SP - 565
EP - 568
DO - 10.5220/0002321805650568