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Automatic number plate recognition system 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 detecting the number plate in noisy as well as in low illumination and also within required time frame. This paper proposes a number plate recognition method by processing vehicle’s rear or front image. After image is captured, processing is divided into four steps which are preprocessing, number plate localization, character segmentation and character recognition. Preprocessing enhances the image for further processing, number plate localization extracts the number plate region from the image, character segmentation separates the individual characters from the extracted number plate, and character recognition identifies the optical characters by using random forest classification algorithm. Experimental results reveal that the accuracy of this method is 90.9%.
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Akhtar, Z., Ali, R. Automatic Number Plate Recognition Using Random Forest Classifier. SN COMPUT. SCI. 1, 120 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-020-00145-8
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