Title :
2-Row Indian LP character segmentation hybrid algorithm with adaptive noise filter
Author :
Vishwanath, N. ; Somasundaram, Sivanand ; Begum, A.R.J. ; Nallaperumal, N.K.
Author_Institution :
Cape Inst. of Technol., Levengipuram, India
Abstract :
A Hybrid approach involving new thresholding method for binarizing the LP plate area with the background combined with a ASMF noise preprocessing algorithm to get a clear Indian LP area to be passed on to the new zone character segmentation algorithm to get a near perfect segmented LP characters output. The thresholding algorithm initially uses a minimum threshold to locate the plate area with the background and calculates an optimum threshold value by minimizing the variance within the LP plate area while maximizing the variance between the plate area and its background. The new zone segmentation algorithm enables multiple rows Indian License Plate segmentation.
Keywords :
adaptive filters; image segmentation; median filters; object recognition; traffic engineering computing; 2-row Indian LP character segmentation hybrid algorithm; ASMF noise preprocessing algorithm; LP characters output segmentation; LP plate area binarization; LP plate area variance maximization; LP plate area variance minimization; adaptive noise filter; adaptive switching median filter; automatic license plate recognition; optimum threshold value; thresholding method; zone character segmentation algorithm; Adaptive Filter; License plate; segmentation; two rows;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence & Computing Research (ICCIC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coimbatore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1342-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIC.2012.6510324