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RECOGNITION SYSTEM
using Neuro-Fuzzy Logic

LPR SYSTEM INVOLVES

Image capture. Image processing

Character recognition

FLOW DIAGRAM
Input Image Image Binarization Connected area Labeling

Blob Analysis

Output

Character recognition

Connected area extraction

IMAGE BINARIZATION

Blob analysis needs to analyze image in only two colors, for finding connected areas.

Actual Image

Image after Binarization

BINARY IMAGE IN MATRIX FORM

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0

0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Connected area

CONNECTED AREA LABELING

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0

0 2 2 0 0 0 3 0

0 0 0 3 3 3 3 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Connected area Label

BLOB ANALYSIS

Calculate size of each connected component. Discard connected Area having size less than 20 pixels or greater than 100 pixels.

CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING NEURAL

NETWORK

Convert each character into character matrix 000001100000 000010010000 000100001000 001000000100 011111111110 010000000010 010000000010 010000000010

character matrix for A

CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING NEURAL

NETWORK

mat[0][1] mat[0][2]

0 0.1247 1 0.2367 Hidden node

mat[0][3]

0.5087
0.3431

mat[8][7] mat[8][8]

0 0.6491

Hidden node value = input node * associated weight + hidden node weight.

CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING NEURAL

NETWORK

Hidden nodes
weight H1

weight

H2

weight

H3

weight weight

H4

H5

CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING NEURAL

NETWORK

Calculation of output node

H1 0.7650

H2
0.5784 H3 0.8970

Output node value = (output of hidden node * associated weight ) + output weight.

0.3682
H4 0.4563 H5

CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING NEURAL

NETWORK

Output nodes
1

0 Output = W 1

CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING FUZZY LOGIC.

Similarly recognize all characters. For A = 0 0 0 0 1

For B = 0 0 0 1 0 For C = 0 0 0 1 1 If (output1=0 && output2=0 && output3=0 && output4=1 && output5=0)
than character is B