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Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) uses cameras and optical character recognition to read vehicle registration plates. It has seven main elements: cameras, illumination, frame grabbers, computers, software, hardware, and databases. The ANPR process involves detecting vehicles, capturing images of license plates, and recognizing the characters on the plates. It has applications in parking, access control, tolling, border control, and locating stolen vehicles. While ANPR improves safety and crime reduction, image quality issues can limit effectiveness.

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Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) uses cameras and optical character recognition to read vehicle registration plates. It has seven main elements: cameras, illumination, frame grabbers, computers, software, hardware, and databases. The ANPR process involves detecting vehicles, capturing images of license plates, and recognizing the characters on the plates. It has applications in parking, access control, tolling, border control, and locating stolen vehicles. While ANPR improves safety and crime reduction, image quality issues can limit effectiveness.

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AUTOMATIC NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION

Key concepts

 Introduction
 Technology
 Elements
 Working
 Output
 Advantages
 Disadvantages
 Applications
 Conclusion
Introductio
n

 A vehicle registration plate is a metal or a plastic


plate attached to a motor vehicle for official
identification purposes.

 The license plates are placed on the front and back of


the vehicle.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition
(ANPR)

 ANPR is an image –processing technology which is


used to identify vehicles by their number plates using
Optical Character Recognition.

 This technology is used in various security and traffic


applications such as access-control system.
Various names of this technology are:

 License Plate Recognition(LPR)


 Car Registration System (CRS)
 Intlligent Transport System (ITS)
Seven Elements In ANPR
1. Camera
2. Illumination
3. Frame grabber
4. Computer
5. Software
6. Hardware
7. Database
• Camera - that take the images of the car (front or rear side).
• Illumination - a controlled light that can bright up the plate,
and allow day and night operation. In most cases the
illumination is Infra-Red (IR) which is invisible to the driver.

• Frame grabber - an interface board between the camera


and the PC, allows the software to read the image
information.

• Computer - normally a PC running Windows or Linux. It


runs
images, analyzes and identifies the plate, and interfaces with
other applications and systems.

• Software - the application and the recognition package.


Usually the recognition package is supplied as a DLL.

• Hardware - various input/output boards used to interface


the external world (such as control boards and networking
boards).

• Database - the events are recorded on a local database or


transmitted over the network. The data includes the
recognition results and (optionally) the vehicle or driver-
WORKING

The ANPR process is divided into three steps:

 Detection of vehicle.

 Capture of images.

 Process of recognition.
Detection Of Vehicles

 The vehicle approaches the secured area and


the process starts when the vehicle steps over a
magnetic loop detector.

 The loop detector senses the car and it’s


presence is signaled to the ANPR unit.
Capture of Images
 The ANPR unit activates the illumination and takes pictures
of
the front and rear plates using ANPR camera.

 The images of the vehicle is read by the ANPR unit’s image


processing hardware or the frame grabber.
Process of Recognition

 The ANPR unit analyzes the image with different image


processing software.

 The ANPR unit checks if the vehicle appears on a predefined


list of authorized cars and if found it signals to open the gate
by activating it’s relay.
Process of Recognition(contd…)


The authorized vehicle enters the secured
area and after passing the gate it’s detector
closes the gate.
 The system waits for the next vehicle to
approach the secured area.
Final output
ANPR Unit
ADVANTAGES

▶ improving road safety.


▶ reduces crime.
▶ gives officers better information to work with.
▶ deterring terrorism.
▶ giving a greater police presence.
▶ increasing the percentage of stop/searches that lead to an
arrest.
▶ pre-paid parking members can be easily differentiated
from
non-members.
Disadvantages

 Firstly, the images of the number plate or of any object


which is taken by using the optical character reader
technology may get blurred mainly due to the reason of
motion blurring for which the picture seems to be hazy
when uploaded in the database.

 Secondly, the technology often uses low-resolution images


for which the images are not actually visible properly in
every case.
APPLICATIONS

 Parking

 Access-control

 Tolling

 Border control

 Stolen cars

 Traffic control
Parkin
g
 The plate number is used to automatically enter pre-paid members and
calculate parking fee for non-members (by comparing the exit and entry
times).
Access-Control

A gate automatically opens for authorized members in a


secured area, thus replacing or assisting the security
guard. The events are logged on a database and could
be used to search the history of events.
Tollin
g
The car number is used to calculate the travel fee in
a
tollroad, or used to double-check the ticket.
Border Control

 This installation covers the borders of the


entire Country.

 Each vehicle is registered into a central


database and linked to additional information
such as the passport data. This is used to
track all border crossings.
CONCLUSION
 There is an immediate need of such kind of
Automatic Number Plate Recognition system in India
as there are problems of traffic, stealing cars etc.

 Government should take some interest in developing this


system as this system is very economical and eco-friendly, if
applied effectively .

 This change will help in the progress of the nation.

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