Real time detection and recognition of vehicle license plate in Bangla

Abstract

Automatic license plate detection and recognition has numerous applications. A large number of schemes have already been proposed in order to make the detection and recognition process efficient. However, a very little work has been done on Bangla license plate recognition. Wide variation among the license plate patterns, complex background, and the difficulty in segmenting Bangla characters of Bangladeshi license plates make it inefficient to use the existing algorithms. In this thesis, we propose a solution for Bangla license plate detection and recognition. We use three stages of conventional license plate recognition system. However, we propose new algorithm in each stage, which are effective for Bangla license plate detection and recognition. We tested our algorithms for over 250 images taken from the road. We achieve over 95% success in Bangla license plate recognition.