Character Recognition from Virtual Scenes and Vehicle License Plates Using Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks

Character recognition remains one of the vital research areas mainly because its application to human-machine and machine-machine communication. One example application that needs this technology is vehicle number plate recognition. With millions of vehicles on the roads today, human resources alone are insufficient in recognizing, tracking or controlling their movements. Another area in character recognition is in virtual scenes. In such scenes, the characters are written in the air by hand and captured using a cheap USB camera placed in front of a subject. Such characters are termed "Air Characters" in this work.

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