Indian License Plate Recognition – A Review

Abstract

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is a real time embedded system which
identifies the characters directly from the image of the license plate. Due to the different
types of number plates being used, the requirements of an automatic number plate
recognition system are different for each country. License plate detection is an important
stage in vehicle license plate recognition for intelligent transport systems. This paper
presents approaches for license plate detection for Indian license plates. The basic step of
license plate detection is localization of number plate. An extensive experimentation has been
carried out for various types of Indian license plate to verify and authenticate the results. The
aim of this paper is to study and evaluates accuracy at each stage of license plate detection
algorithms.