Automatic Number Plate Localization and Optical Character Recognition

Abstract

In areas with high traffic, toll booths with manual paper based billing process tend to create bottleneck which slows down the traffic even more. In those places atomization of tolling process is required. Automatic Number Plate Recognition system will provide a solution for such problem wherein toll will be deducted automatically from user's account using his license plate number which will recognized by a camera based sensor installed at toll booth. It is a mass surveillance method that uses optical character recognition on images to read vehicle registration plates. Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology may also help detects criminality at different levels by tracking criminals, Organised Crime Groups and terrorists. This technology may also be used for overspeed detection. We have proposed simplified method for plate localization and have efficiently used template matching for character extraction.