KMS Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, CAS
License plate character segmentation based on stroke width transform | |
Hou, Yongshun1; Qin, Xunhui2; Zhou, Xiangdong2; Zhu, Xi2; Zhang, Ting3 | |
2015 | |
摘要 | License plate character segmentation is an important step of license plate recognition (LPR). This paper proposes an approach to segment license plate character based on stroke width transform (SWT). The method detects some character candidates by SWT, reserves real character regions with cluster analysis based on horizontal position and the height of detected candidate regions, and fits two straight lines. According to the tilting degrees and locations of fitted lines, locate precisely position of a plate, and correct the rotation plate. At last, segment characters using connected component analysis and template matching. Experiments show that the proposed method can accurately segment license plate characters, has good adaptability to rotation, slightly fouling. It also saves to be difficult to adjust parameters with a general method to deal with different scale plates, meanwhile not necessary to preciously locate the position of plates before segmentation. © 2015 IEEE. |
语种 | 英语 |
DOI | 10.1109/CISP.2015.7408016 |
会议(录)名称 | 8th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, CISP 2015 |
页码 | 954-958 |
通讯作者 | Qin, Xunhui |
收录类别 | EI |
会议地点 | Shenyang, China |
会议日期 | October 14, 2015 - October 16, 2015 |