A

presentation on
Automatic Characters Recognition From A
Vehicle Number Plate
By

1.M. Ramya(13H71A0430) 2.R. Kalyan

Chakravarthy(13H71A0416)

3.M. Ravi(13H71A0431) 4.P. BhavyaSree(13H71A0404)

Under the Esteemed Guidance of

Mr. V. V. S. Murthy, M.Tech, (Ph.D)
Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Devineni Venkata Ramana & Dr. Hima Sekhar

MIC College of Technology

Kanchikacherla-521180, Krishna Dist., A.P, India.

ACADEMIC YEAR: 2016-2017

 CONTENTS
Motivation
Objective
Introduction
Abstract
Block diagram
Flow chart
Pre-Processing The Image
Edge detection
Removing lower connected components
Final positioning and extracting
Advantages
Limitations
Conclusion
Future Scope
References
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 MOTIVATION

Due to the mass integration of information technology in

all aspects of modern life there is a demand for information
systems for data processing in respect of vehicles.
We have learned some fundamental image
processing techniques in our previous semester.By using that
fundamental knowledge we over come the problems in detecting
the vehicle number plate.

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 OBJECTIVE
The projects objective is to develop a character
recognition system for a license plate of a car using the
techniques and tools that best suite and allow doing it in easy and
comfortable way.
Find a method with acceptable results for the correct location of
the area of the license plate.
Build a system that given an image region where plate can be
found to determine the character of the plate.
Recognize each character we have extracted above.

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 INTRODUCTION

An image is used to convey useful information in a

visible format. An image is nothing but an arrangement of tiny
elements in a 2-D plane. These tiny elements are called pixels a
large number of pixels combine together to form an image.
Using image enhancement and analysis techniques
we can extract the information in an image.

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 ABSTRACT
The vehicle number plate recognition
automatically controls access to a secured area for authorized
members. We tested our method for number plate recognition
which includes five main testimonials first is pre-processing of
the input image, then cropping the preprocessed image that
follows by the image edge extraction operated on the cropped
image after this the character segmentation process algorithm and
then finally to the character recognition which gives the
improved results that shows our method has the average
precision that can be put into practice.

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 BLOCK DIAGRAM

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 FLOW CHART

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 PRE-PROCESSING
Pre-Processing is very important for the good performance of
algorithm
Pre-Processing consists of :
Resizing of image.
RGB to Gray.
Contrast enhancement using histogram
equalization.

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 EDGE DETECTION BY SOBEL OPERATOR
The Sobel operator is one of most commonly used edge
detectors.
The Sobel edge detector uses a pair of 3x3 convolution
matrices.
The first is dedicated for evaluation of horizontal edges, and
the second for evaluation of vertical edges.

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 APPLYING THE SOBEL OPERATOR-
EXAMPLE

All edges in the image have been detected and can be nicely
separated from the background using a threshold of 220.

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 EDGE DETECTION BY SOBEL OPERATOR

Gray Scale image after

image enhancing

After applying Sobel edge

detection method.

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 Removing lower connected components
After edge detection removes all connected
components that have lower than p(eight
pixel in our method) pixels. Thus it will
produce another binary image.

Steps:-
1. Determine the connected components.
L= bwlabeln(BW,conn);

2. Compute the area of each component.

S= regionprops(L,Area);

3. Remove small objects

Bw2 = ismember(L,find([S.Area] >= p));

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 Filling The Holes

The set of background pixels are known as hole that cannot be reached by
filling the background from the edge of the image.

The holes in the binarized image are filled.

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 Lower Components Removal

Image after removing components

with connectivity less than of the
intensity 100 per pixel.

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 Lower Components Removal
Continued
Using Mat lab toolbox function
bwareaopen() that specifies the desired
connectivity.

All components connectivity lower

than the intensity of 100 per pixel are
removed to get the actual location of
the number plate.

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 Final Positioning and Extracting
We output the four vertices coordinates of
the last selected region after
morphological filtering and extract the
number plate.

The final positioning of the number plate

after cropping.

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 ADVANTAGES

To detect the vehicle number plate in easy way.

It reduces the time duration in this process.
It is very reliable and inexpensive.

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 LIMITATIONS

The number plate should be clear and dominant.

The length of the characters in the number plate should neither
more nor less than 10.
Height of the each character should be same.
The characters should be in single row.

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 CONCLUSION
The project was designed keeping in mind the
automation of the number plate detection system for security
reason that could replace the current system of manual entry. This
project was a success in recording the number plate of a vehicle
although it has got its own limitation of image processing and
other hardware requirements. From this project we learn some
image processing tools in MATLAB.The system use series of
image processing techniques for identifying the vehicle number
plate from the database stored in the PC. The system is
implemented in MATLAB and it performance is tested on real
images.

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 FUTURE SCOPE

In future by modifying some functions in the code to

make the simulation results shows that the system robustly detect
and recognize the vehicle license plate against different
lightening conditions and can be implemented on the entrance of
a highly restricted areas.

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 REFERENCES

Loumos, V.; Kayafas, E.,License plate recognition from still

images and video sequences: A survey IEEE Transactions on
Intelligent.
R.A. Lotufo, A.D. Morgan, and AS. Johnson, Automatic
Number-Plate Recognition, Proceedings of the IEEE
Colloquium on Image.
Otsu, N., A Thresholding Selection Method from Gray Level
Histograms, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, Vol. 9, pp.62-66, 1979.

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 THANKYOU

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