TRACKING OWNER DETAILS BY AUTOMATIC NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION

Abstract Vehicle number plate recognition is an image processing technique. The objective is to design an efficient vehicle identification system by using the number plate of a vehicle, and to implement it for various applications such as (marketing purposes, inventory control,accident control, border checkpoints). The system has color image inputs of a vehicle and the output has the owner details of that vehicle. The proposed algorithm consists of four major parts: These are image acquisition, plate localization, Character segmentation, Character recognition and retrieving details using database. This system is implemented and simulated in MATLAB 2010a and ms access database.