The invention relates to a recognition method of a
license plate number of a motor vehicle, and belongs to the technical field of
license plate number recognition. The recognition method comprises carrying out median filtering and
noise reduction to an input image containing a
license plate, locating multiple license plate areas by utilizing a binarization
processing method and a
morphological processing method, carrying out rotation correction and edge removing
processing to the license plate areas one by one, carrying out character
cutting by utilizing a
vertical projection method, carrying out further edge removing
processing to obtained character blocks in a
cutting mode, carrying out
character recognition by utilizing an enhanced edition
template matching method, and therefore achieving fast and accurate license plate recognition. The recognition method improves the precision of license plate location, and fast and precise location of the license plate is achieved. The recognition method can be used in a real-time license place
recognition system, and for processing high-speed data flow, meanwhile is high in recognition accuracy, and has certain robustness on illumination variation, influence of rain and mist, indistinct license plates, broken characters and other bad conditions.