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This work draws attention to the large fraction of near-duplicates in the training and test sets of datasets widely adopted in License Plate Recognition (LPR) research. These duplicates refer to images that, although different, show the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Rayson Laroca , Valter Estevam , Alceu S. Britto , Rodrigo Minetto , David Menotti

In this paper, we propose a real-time and accurate automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) approach. Our study illustrates the outstanding design of ALPR with four insights: (1) the resampling-based cascaded framework is beneficial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yi Wang , Zhen-Peng Bian , Yunhao Zhou , Lap-Pui Chau

Adoption of AI driven techniques in public services remains low due to challenges related to accuracy and speed of information at population scale. Computer vision techniques for traffic monitoring have not gained much popularity despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Anmol Singhal Navya Singhal

Forensic license plate recognition (FLPR) remains an open challenge in legal contexts such as criminal investigations, where unreadable license plates (LPs) need to be deciphered from highly compressed and/or low resolution footage, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Denise Moussa , Anatol Maier , Andreas Spruck , Jürgen Seiler , Christian Riess

We evaluated a lightweight Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) called LPRNet [1] for automatic License Plate Recognition (LPR). We evaluated the algorithm on two datasets, one composed of real license plate images and the other of synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Marcel Del Castillo Velarde , Gissel Velarde

Developing a highly accurate automatic license plate recognition system (ALPR) is challenging due to environmental factors such as lighting, rain, and dust. Additional difficulties include high vehicle speeds, varying camera angles, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zahra Ebrahimi Vargoorani , Amir Mohammad Ghoreyshi , Ching Yee Suen

The development of the Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system has received much attention for the English license plate. However, despite being the sixth largest population around the world, no significant progress can be tracked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Md. Saif Hassan Onim , Hussain Nyeem , Koushik Roy , Mahmudul Hasan , Abtahi Ishmam , Md. Akiful Hoque Akif , Tareque Bashar Ovi

Vehicle tracking is an integral part of intelligent traffic management systems. Previous implementations of vehicle tracking used Global Positioning System(GPS) based systems that gave location of the vehicle of an individual on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Lalit Lakshmanan , Yash Vora , Raj Ghate

Automated License Plate Recognition(ALPR) is a system that automatically reads and extracts data from vehicle license plates using image processing and computer vision techniques. The Goal of LPR is to identify and read the license plate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Noushin Afrin , Md Mahamudul Hasan , Mohammed Fazlay Elahi Safin , Khondakar Rifat Amin , Md Zahidul Haque , Farzad Ahmed , Md. Tanvir Rouf Shawon

Most vehicle license plate recognition use neural network techniques to enhance its computing capability. The image of the vehicle license plate is captured and processed to produce a textual output for further processing. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Nuzulha Khilwani Ibrahim , Emaliana Kasmuri , Norazira A Jalil , Mohd Adili Norasikin , Sazilah Salam , Mohamad Riduwan Md Nawawi

The growing use of Artificial Intelligence solutions has led to an explosion in image capture and its application in machine learning models. However, the lack of standardization in image quality generates inconsistencies in the results of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Renato Augusto Tavares

Although most current license plate (LP) recognition applications have been significantly advanced, they are still limited to ideal environments where training data are carefully annotated with constrained scenes. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Younkwan Lee , Jiwon Jun , Yoojin Hong , Moongu Jeon

We propose an automatic framework for toll collection, consisting of three steps: vehicle type recognition, license plate localization, and reading. However, each of the three steps becomes non-trivial due to image variations caused by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Muhammad Usama , Hafeez Anwar , Abbas Anwar , Saeed Anwar

License plate recognition (LPR) is important for traffic law enforcement, crime investigation, and surveillance. However, license plate areas in dash cam images often suffer from low resolution, motion blur, and glare, which make accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Kihyun Na , Junseok Oh , Youngkwan Cho , Bumjin Kim , Sungmin Cho , Jinyoung Choi , Injung Kim

Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) and vehicle make and model recognition underpin intelligent transportation systems, supporting law enforcement, toll collection, and post-incident investigation. Applying these methods to videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pouya Parsa , Keya Li , Kara M. Kockelman , Seongjin Choi

Automatic Number Plate Recognition System (ANPRS) is a mass surveillance embedded system that recognizes the number plate of the vehicle. This system is generally used for traffic management applications. It should be very efficient in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zuhaib Akhtar , Rashid Ali

Recently, deep learning-based methods have reached an excellent performance on License Plate (LP) detection and recognition tasks. However, it is still challenging to build a robust model for Chinese LPs since there are not enough large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yanxiang Gong , Linjie Deng , Shuai Tao , Xinchen Lu , Peicheng Wu , Zhiwei Xie , Zheng Ma , Mei Xie

Despite the evident practical importance of license plate recognition (LPR), corresponding research is limited by the volume of publicly available datasets due to privacy regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Mariia Shpir , Nadiya Shvai , Amir Nakib

Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is becoming a popular study area and is applied in many fields such as transportation or smart city. However, there are still several limitations when applying many current methods to practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Quang Huy Che , Tung Do Thanh , Cuong Truong Van

The issue of Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) has been one of the most challenging issues in recent years. Weather conditions, camera angle of view, lighting conditions, different characters written on license plates, and many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Soheila Hatami , Majid Sadedel , Farideh Jamali