License plate detection and lane detection

Computer Science and Engineering

The process of identifying the number from the license plate of any vehicle is the task of detecting license plates and the process of ensuring that a specific vehicle is moving in its own lane is lane detection. It is one of the most current issues at hand. It consists of four basic steps for identifying the number plate: obtain or capture the image[7] from camera or through a video source, some pre-processing tasks, number plate detection, effective character segmentation and efficient character recognition. Lane detection systems work on the priority basis as the fundamental and foremost aim of these systems is to avoid accidents and promote safety. Such systems are intended to detect the lanes by recognizing marked lines and generate warning to alert the driver if the vehicle deviates from the respective lane. The flow diagram in brief is given in Figure 1. Due to rapid use of advanced technology and easy access to resources, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of vehicles and therefore the need has been felt to detect the license plates of the vehicles which can further be used in a variety of applications that can add to national throughput of the country, for ex- monitoring road traffic, automated tolling applications, determine parking lot time, stolen vehicle detection, etc.

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