NDLI: Principal Visual Word Discovery for Automatic License Plate Detection

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Zhou, W. Li, H. Lu, Y. Tian, Q.
Copyright Year	1992
Abstract	License plates detection is widely considered a solved problem, with many systems already in operation. However, the existing algorithms or systems work well only under some controlled conditions. There are still many challenges for license plate detection in an open environment, such as various observation angles, background clutter, scale changes, multiple plates, uneven illumination, and so on. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme to automatically locate license plates by principal visual word (PVW), discovery and local feature matching. Observing that characters in different license plates are duplicates of each other, we bring in the idea of using the bag-of-words (BoW) model popularly applied in partial-duplicate image search. Unlike the classic BoW model, for each plate character, we automatically discover the PVW characterized with geometric context. Given a new image, the license plates are extracted by matching local features with PVW. Besides license plate detection, our approach can also be extended to the detection of logos and trademarks. Due to the invariance virtue of scale-invariant feature transform feature, our method can adaptively deal with various changes in the license plates, such as rotation, scaling, illumination, etc. Promising results of the proposed approach are demonstrated with an experimental study in license plate detection.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Page Count	11
File Size	1460075
Starting Page	4269
Ending Page	4279
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10577149
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	9
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-09-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Licenses Visualization Feature extraction Image color analysis Image edge detection Lighting Training principal visual word (PVW) Clustering geometric context object detection
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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