A Macao license plate recognition system

A license plate recognition (LPR) system plays an important role in numerous applications, such as parking accounting systems, traffic law enforcement, road monitoring and security systems. This paper proposes an experimental license plate recognition system for Macao-style license plates. The system uses morphological operations and a projection searching algorithm for the extraction of license plates. The recognition result is obtained from a character recognition based on template matching. The proposed work in this paper is the first attempt towards Macao-style license plates.

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