An Efficient Method of License Plate Location

This paper presents a novel approach of license plate location. The proposed algorithm involves the following three steps. First, the vertical edges of the vehicle image are extracted by Sobel operator. Second, HSV color space and integral image are employed to locate candidates in yellow license plates and non-yellow license plates. Finally, connected component analysis is to locate the region of license plate accurately. Experimental results on a large volume of natural-scene vehicle plate image sets, which are extracted from low-quality video sequences, demonstrate that our technique achieves a verification rate of around 95% on yellow license plates and 99% on non-yellow ones. The total time of processing one yellow image is less than 0.1s and the non-yellow one is less than 0.05s, meeting the requirements of real-time application.

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