AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION

Abstract: The aim of this project is to detect the license plate of the vehicle and extracting the characters in detected license plate of the over speeding vehicle. License Plate Recognition has been widely used in many traffic applications, such as smart parking system, traffic toll system, and security system. In recent years, LPR has played a crucial role in the development of smart cities as a surveillance system for vehicle management, investigation of stolen vehicles and traffic monitoring. There is three phases in License Plate Recognition phase, license Plate Localization, license plate and Optical Character Recognition.

Keywords: Bilateral Filter, Gray Scale, Canny Edge Detection, Optical Character Recognition, License Plate detection.