Automatic Number Plate Recognition System

Abstract

Automatic recognition of car license plate number became a very important in our daily life because of the unlimited increase of cars and transportation systems which make it impossible to be fully managed and monitored by humans, examples are so many like traffic monitoring, tracking stolen cars, managing parking toll, red-light violation enforcement,
border and customs checkpoints. Yet it’s a very challenging problem, due to the diversity of plate formats, different scales, rotations and non-uniform illumination conditions during image acquisition. This paper mainly introduces an Automatic Number Plate Recognition System (ANPR) using Morphological operations, Histogram manipulation and Edge detection Techniques for plate localization and characters segmentation. Artificial Neural Networks are used for character classification and recognition.