VEHICLE REGISTRATION PLATE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION SYSTEM

Vehicle Registration Plate (VRP) Detection & Recognition System is one type of intellectual transport system and is of considerable interest because of its application in detecting the registration plate affixed on Indian vehicles. One of the key special of Regist ration Plate detection system is the Character Segmentation so it also finds application in highway electronic toll collection and traffic monitoring system. This type of application puts high demands on the consistency of Registration Plate detection syst em[1]. A lot of work has already been done regarding license plate recognition systems for Korean, European, Chinese and US license plates. The purpose of this paper was to develop an application which senses and recognize Indian license plates from cars at a gate, for example at the entrance of the parking area. The system, based on PC with video camera, catches video frames which includes a visible car license plate and process them. Once a license plate is detected, then characters are recognized disp layed on the MATLAB command window or checked against a database. The main effort is on the design of algorithms used for extracting the license plate from a single image, authentication of the license plate, separating the characters of the plate, authen tication of the character of license plate for detection process, and finally identifying the individual characters.