A Novel Approach for License Plate Recognition Using Subspace Projection and Probabilistic Neural Network

License plate recognition has many applications in traffic systems. It is very difficult because images are usually noisy, broken or incomplete. In this paper, a novel robust approach for license plate recognition is proposed, which combines subspace projection with probabilistic neural network to improve the recognition rate. Probabilistic neural network is used as a classifier to identify low-dimension test samples which are obtained from actual license plate images by subspace projection. Experiment results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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