Affiliation:
1. Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Abstract
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) is a specialized image processing method that identifies the text on a given vehicle's number plate. The goal is to create a successful automatic approved vehicle identification system that makes use of the license plate. The system may be placed in many scenarios and locations, some of which may include security in prohibited areas like military and testing zones, or the vicinity of important government buildings like the Supreme Court, Parliament, etc. Using image segmentation in an image, the region containing the vehicle number plate from the image of a vehicle is extracted. Character recognition is achieved using an optical character recognition (OCR) approach in order to determine miscellaneous details like the owner of any detected vehicle, the location of registration, the address and whereabouts, etc.