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Abstract-Automatic Number Plate Recognition number plates. In few cases, other unwanted
(ANPR) is a real time embedded system which decorations are present on the number plate. Also,
automatically recognizes the license number of unlike other countries, no special features are
vehicles. In this paper, the task of recognizing available on Indian number plates to ease their
number plate for Indian conditions is recognition process. Hence, currently only manual
considered, where number plate standards are recording systems are used and ANPR has not been
rarely followed. commercially implemented in India.
The system consists of integration of
algorithms like: ‘Feature-based number plate 1.2 Proposed system
Localization’ for locating the number plate,
‘Image Scissoring’ for character segmentation
and statistical feature extraction for character
recognition; which are specifically designed for
Indian number plates.
The system can recognize single and
double line number plates under widely varying
illumination conditions with a success rate of
about 82%.
1. Introduction
ANPR is a mass surveillance system that captures
Figure 1: Software flow of the system
the image of vehicles and recognizes their license
number. Some applications of an ANPR system
are, automated traffic surveillance and tracking In designing this system (fig. 1), various Image
system, automated high-way/parking toll collection Processing algorithms were designed in Matlab and
systems, automation of petrol stations, journey time implemented on the Digital Signal Processor
monitoring. TMS320DM6437 which is optimized for video and
Such systems automate the process of recognizing image processing applications.
the license number of vehicles, making it fast, time- A rear image of a vehicle is captured and
efficient and cost-effective. processed using various algorithms. Initially, the
number plate area is localized using a novel
1.1 Existing systems ‘feature-based number plate localization’ method
which consists of many algorithms. This algorithm
ANPR systems have been implemented in many satisfactorily eliminates all the background noise
countries like Australia, Korea and few others [1]. and preserves only the number plate area in the
Strict implementation of license plate standards in image. This area is then segmented into individual
these countries has helped the early development of characters using ‘Image Scissoring’ algorithm.
ANPR systems. These systems use standard After this step, the characters are extracted from the
features of the license plates such as: dimensions of gray-sale image and each character is enhanced
plate, border for the plate, color and font of using some character enhancement techniques.
characters, etc. help to localize the number plate These characters are given to the character
easily and identify the license number of the recognition module, which uses statistical feature
vehicle. extraction to recognize the characters.
In India, number plate standards are rarely followed
[2]. Wide variations are found in terms of font
types, script, size, placement and color of the