CAR RECOGNITION SYSTEM

USING
MATLAB
Group Members Project Supervisor

Sania Arif (1547)

Namra Afzal (1528) Sir Umer Javed
Laraib Mumtaz
(1522)

Batch F11
BSEE Faculty of Engineering and Technology
IIUI
 WHY DID WE CHOOSE THIS PROJECT?
 Identification of stolen cars

 Smuggling of Cars

 Invalid license plates

 Usage of cars in terrorist attacks/illegal activities

 Applications in traffic systems (highway electronic toll

collection, red light violation enforcement, border and
customs checkpoints, etc.).
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 AIM
 We intended to develop a system in MATLAB which
can perform detection as well as recognition of Car
Number plate

 The objective of this project is to recognize car

number plate using serial communication.

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WORK DIVISION

 Matlab code ( Namra Afzal 1528 /BSEE /FET F11)

 Microcontroller interfacing (Sania Arif / 1547 /BsEE

FET f11)

 Hardware ( Laraib Mumtaz/ 1522/ BSEE /FET F11)

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TIME DIVISION
Week 1
 Studied project

 Project Planning

Week 2
matlab coding
Week 3
 Simulation using proteus

 Hardware

Week 4
Hardware Interfacing 5
 BASIC PROJECT

 Input image ( from real environment)

 Algorithm using (matlab)

 output
Microcontroller serial interfacing with hardware.

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 WORKFLOW
 Image was taken from real environment .
 Process Digital Images of License Plates using
existing/modified algorithms.

 Algorithms will perform alpha numeric conversions on

the captured license plate images into text entries.

 System would check the extracted entries against a

database in real time.

 The entire system is implemented in MATLAB is used for

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 BASIC MODULES OF THE SYSTEM
 Detection is done by Character Segmentation
Locates the alpha numeric characters on a license
plate.

 Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Translates the segmented characters into text entries.

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Block Diagram

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 Start

Localization

Characters And Numbers Segmentation

Feature Extraction Of Segmented

Image

Recognize The Extracted Features

Show The License Plate

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End
LICENSE PLATE LOCALIZATION

Morphological
Edge Detection
Operations

Extracting The
Plate Region

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Flow Chart of extraction in
Matlab

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 Start

Load Image From File

Convert Image Into Grayscale

Median Filter To remove noise in The Image

Morphological Operations Are Applied On The Image

Edge enhancement In The Image

Convolution for brightening image

Intensity scaling

Filling all the regions of Image

Thinning to isolate characters

Show The License Plate 13

End
 LOAD THE IMAGE FROM FILE

a=imread(‘car 10.JPG’)

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 PREPROCESSING
Preprocessing is very important for the good
performance of character segmentation.

Preprocessing consists of :

 Resizing image

 Rgb to gray

 Noise removal ( we used median filter) .

 CHANGING THE TYPE

c=rgb2gray(b);

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 EXTRACTING PLATE REGION
 It is result of dilation after noise removal .

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 EDGE ENHANCEMENT

gdiff=imsubtract(d,e);
where ‘d’ is dilated and
‘e’ is eroded image

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 MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
 Filling (holes )
 Thinning ( for character isolation)

 Finding connected components of area more than

200 pixels

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CHARACTERS SEGMENTATION

Preprocessing Horizontal And

Vertical Segmentation

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 HORIZONTAL & VERTICAL
SEGMENTATION
 Detect the horizontal lines in the image with a pixel value
of zero.

 Converting the image into binary.

 Use simple “for loops” to detect the portions of the image

that had connected objects with a pixel value of ‘0’ and
hence accordingly, the image was read.

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CHARACTERS RECOGNITION

Template Matching

Template matching is one of the most

common and easy classification method
for recognizing the characters.
We used code for OCR
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 TEMPLATE MATCHING
The used templates are given in the figure below:

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OUTPUT
Correlation is used to match the image from the license
plate and the template’s image. The following figure
shows the numbers in a text file.
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EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

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 WHY CHOSE MATLAB FOR PROJECT

 To move to a Real Time Environment.

 For fast computation.

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 PROBLEMS WITH THE MATLAB
SYSTEM
The problems that we faced during Localization were:

 Algorithm did not work perfectly for more than one

image.

 Manual Changes were required in the code every time ,

manually we had to change parameters in code that was
kind of hit and trial method.

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