Week 5: The Summary of Project

Automatic Number Plate Recognition Technology

It is technical method of artificial vision (OCR) that allows the recognition of number plates in images of vehicles.

Generally, the ANPR technology can be bought in two modalities:

• The ANPR engine: can recognize the number plate directly from the images stored in a hard disk.
• The ANPR equipment (Hardware Recognition engine): all the hardware necessary to capture the images of the vehicles and to recognize the number plate and offer the maximum reliability.

How does ANPR system works:

The ANPR process is divided into three steps.

• Detection of the vehicle: The first step is to take an image of the vehicle at the right time.
• Capture of the images: Once the vehicle is detected, the following step is the capture of the vehicle.
• Number plate recognition process: Each ANPR manufacturer has developed its own recognition algorithms.

Conclusion, the ANPR technology is a good system to implement in any suitable system although it has advantages and disadvantages.

source: ANPR-TUTORIAL.COM