The invention discloses a 
license plate locating method based on a colorful 
binary image. The method comprises the following steps: first, converting collected RGB (Red Green Blue) colorful images into an HSI (
Hue-Saturation-Intensity) 
color model space, conducting colorful binary 
processing, and initializing binary state feature matrixes being 1; then, setting a saturation threshold, a luminance threshold and a 
hue threshold to process pixels in the colorful image, and therefore changing the values of 0 and 1 in the binary matrixes; finally, utilizing open and closing operation of 
mathematical morphology, and combining geometric features of 
license plate regions to remove a false 
license plate region; making a horizontal 
vertical projection to obtain 
horizontal and vertical ordinates to divide, and finally realizing license plate region locating. The method directly processes information such as 
hue, saturation and luminance in the image, combines the 
mathematical morphology and the inherent characteristics of license plates, and fully utilizes the color feature, the 
texture feature and the size feature of the license plate regions, so that the locating accuracy rate is increased. The method can be more easily realized.