A Hybrid License Plate Extraction Method for Complex Scenes

  • Authors:
  • Wangchao Le;Shaofa Li

  • Affiliations:
  • South China University of Technology, Canton, 510640, P.R China;South China University of Technology, Canton, 510640, P.R China

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '06 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a hybrid method for extracting license plates from cluttered images. The proposed algorithm consists of three major components. First, a line detection method is proposed to detect straight lines in the edge map. Second, a weight assignment scheme is applied to obtain a weight based edge density map. Regions with the densest edges are selected as candidates. Third, all candidate plates will pass to a refining selection procedure. One candidate that best satisfy the color constraints becomes the output.