LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION FOR TOLL PAYMENT APPLICATION

Saranya.K, AncyGloria.C

Abstract: Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is the method for the extraction of vehicle license plate information from images. It can be used on various applications such as Pay-Per -Use roads (Electronic Toll Collection), Parking lots and arterial traffic conditions monitoring. Automatic License Plate Recognition uses infrared cameras to capture images under varied lighting and weather conditions. The objective of this paper is to implement K-Means Clustering Algorithm for License plate extraction & Maximally stable extreme region for license plate segmentation , Template matching method for license plate recognition & also payment in toll plaza and parking lots automatically by detecting the number plates of vehicles which in turn reduce the traffic and consumption of time in toll stations.

Keywords: Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR), Maximally Stable Extreme Region (MSER), Template matching, and Character Recognition

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303130