Çevik, Kerim Kürşat Niğde Üniversitesi - Bor Meslek Yüksek Okulu, Turkey , Çakır, Abdülkadir Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi - Teknik Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey

Recognition of the Vehicle License Plate Using Image Processing Techniques

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In this study, a system allowing to open and close an entrance gate automatically by recognizing license plate of a car using image processing algorithms has been developed. The aim of the study is to save manpower and increase security. Taking the image of vehicle approaching gate with the help of camera, the developed system sends it to computer to be processed by the processing algorithms-based software which was written in C# programming language. License plate’s recognition is performed at high speed. The plate read by software is checked through the database and if the plate is registered in database, the gate is opened, otherwise, it gives warning. In this study, Blob Coloring Algorithm has been employed to assort characters on the license plate. Finding location of license plate and reading it correctly by software developed in the study have been found 98 % and 88.1%, respectively. As a result, improvement has been achieved compared to the previous studies.

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Character recognition , Blob coloring, License plate recognition, image processing, C #

Afyon Kocatepe University Journal Of Science an‎d Engineering

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