Published Paper Details:

Automatic License Plate recognition (ALPR) is an image processing technology which uses a number (license) plate to find the vehicle. The objective is to design an efficient authorized vehicle identification system by using the vehicle number/license plate. The system is implemented on the entrance for security control of a highly restricted area like military zones or areas around top government offices e.g., Parliament, Supreme Court etc. The developed system first detects the vehicle and then captures the vehicle image. Vehicle number plate region is extracted using the image segmentation in an image. Optical character recognition technique is used for the character recognition. The resulting data is then used to compare with the records on a database to produce the specific information like the vehicle owner, place of registration, address, etc. The system and its performance are tested on real images. It is seen from the experiment that the developed system successfully detects and recognizes the vehicle number plate on real images.