License plate positioning method incorporating color, size and texture characteristic

A license plate location and texture feature technology, applied in the field of image processing, can solve the problems of license plate recognition system performance degradation, poor robustness, and fluctuations in segmentation accuracy

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-12-31
UNIV OF ELECTRONICS SCI & TECH OF CHINA
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[0008] The common point of the above three license plate location methods is that these methods are all aimed at a specific feature of the license plate, and are easily limi

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[0073] Adopt the method of the present invention, at first write the license plate location software; Then at the entrance of expressway, toll station and other any suitable position, adopt the original image of photographing device to automatically take pictures of vehicle; Then the original image of the vehicle taken is input as source data in The license plate is processed in the license plate location software; the located license plate is saved to the hard disk in bitmap (BMP) format.

[0074] The method of the invention makes full use of the color, size and texture features of the license plate, thereby realizing fast and accurate segmentation of the license plate area from the provided input source image. In an actual system implemented according to this method, for vehicle photo datasets under various imaging conditions (including under uncertain backgrounds, different weather such as rainy days, foggy days, and sunny days) and license plate levels, license plate tilts,...

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The invention belongs to the image processing technique field and particularly relates to the license plate identifying technique and further to a license plate locating method under a complex background. Firstly, a license plate original image of RBG format is converted into HSI format to realize the separation between color information and brightness information; then the obtained saturation component chart and brightness component chart are binarized; then pixels of the original image are classified according to the color information of the license plate and a license plate locating template binary image can be obtained according to the classification results and a mathematical morphology computing is adopted to remove noise from the license plate locating template binary image; then a region growing method is adopted to extract each communication zone of the license plate locating template binary image and an inspection to the license plate size is also carried out, and the communication zones passing the size inspection become candidate license plate zones; the Hough transformation is adopted to correct inclined license plates and then license plate vertical texture characteristics are adopted to further inspect each candidate license plate zone so as to remove the fake candidate zones. The adoption of the invention can effectively enhance the universality and the locating accuracy of the system.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of image processing, in particular to a license plate positioning method in a complex background in the license plate recognition technology. Background technique [0002] Intelligent transportation is the main direction of the current traffic management development, and it is a frontier research topic in the field of transportation in the world. Automatic license plate recognition technology is the core of intelligent transportation system. It is an important means to solve the problem of expressway management, and it is the application of computer image processing technology and pattern recognition technology in the field of intelligent transportation. This technology is widely used in solving many problems on expressways, such as vehicle toll collection and management, traffic flow detection, parking lot toll management, violation vehicle monitoring, false license plate vehicle identification and other s...

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IPC IPC(8): G06K9/00G06K9/46G08G1/017
Inventor 解梅李嘉
Owner UNIV OF ELECTRONICS SCI & TECH OF CHINA
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