License Plate Localization and Character

Recognization based on EM and BPN

algorithm
Presented by
JOEL EBENEZER P
(510813483003)


Guided by
Mr.V.SENTHIL KUMAR M.E.,
Associate Prof/Department of ECE



Outline

Aim
Introduction
Work flow of phase I
Fundamentals of Image processing
Fundamentals of Expectation-Maximization and CCAT tecniques
Work to be done
Conclusion
References

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Aim

To detect the location of the license plate (LP) and License plate
characters in an image having variability in orientation, scaling, plate
location, illumination, and complex background.




Introduction
Detection of license plate and extraction of characters from an image is a
difficult task to accomplish. Many researches as been carried out and various
algorithms have been proposed.
Problems in locating the license plate from an image are orientation, scaling,
background, illumination conditions, blurriness and resolution of images.
We do an image processing method in three stages, to extract vehicle image, to
extract license plate and to extract the text as a last process.
Edge based detection and Expectation-Maximization based segmentation are
done for localizing the license plate. Back propagation algorithm is used for
recognization of license plate characters.





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WORK FLOW OF PHASE - I
Problem Identification
Literature Survey
Fundamentals of image processing
Edge detection
(Sobel operator)
EM and Connected Component Analysis
Extraction of license plate region
Fundamentals of Image processing
What is Image processing:
Image processing is a method to convert an image into digital form
and perform some operations on it, in order to get an enhanced image or to
extract some useful information from it.
Connected component analysis
What is CCAT?
Connected component technique, scans an image and groups its pixels into
components based on pixel connectivity.
All pixels in a connected component share similar pixel intensity
values and are in some way connected with each other.

Conclusion of literature survey

The objectives of this project are,

To detect license plate and extract characters accurately.
To achieve success in low resolution images.
To evaluate the performance of our system in the presence of noise and
variations in lighting conditions and orientations.
To reduce the detection time.
To achieve more success rate.
Works to be carried out
Phase 1:

Detection and recognization of license plate characters by genetic
algorithm(base paper).
Localization of license plate by Expectation-Maximization

Phase 2:

Character recognization using BPN algorithm.
MATLAB based video processing system.


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Thank you