Robust number plate detector based on stroke width transform and neural network

• Published in: 2015 Signal Processing Symposium (SPSympo) pp. 1 - 4
• Main Authors: Gorovyi, Ievgen M., Smirnov, Ivan O.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Warsaw University of Technology 01.06.2015
• Subjects: automatic number plate recognition (ANPR); contour detection; Feature extraction; Image edge detection; License plate recognition; neural network; Neural networks; stroke width transform; Training; Transforms; Vehicles

The number plate detection is a key step affecting the overall performance of the number plate recognition system. In the paper a novel algorithm for this purpose is proposed. The approach is based on the detection of text areas using the stroke width transform. More plate candidates are detected us...