Number plate recognition is a system which recognizes the license number of vehicle. This paper includes brief introduction of number plate recognition, which done the process of number plate detection, character segmentation and character recognition.NPR system is used in various fields like Tolling booths, Border security system, Tracking system and signal system. Number plates are different ...

Several methods for automatically constructing a protein model from an electron-density map require searching for many small protein-fragment templates in the density. We propose to use the spherical-harmonic decomposition of the template and the maps density to speed this matching. Unlike other template-matching approaches, this allows us to eliminate large portions of the map unlikely to matc...

Combining the principle of Differential Latent Semantic Index (DLSI) (Chen et al., 2001) and the Template Matching Technique (Tokuda and Chen, 2001), we propose a new user queries-based patent document retrieval system by NLP technology. The DLSI method first narrows down the search space of a sought-after patent document by content search and the template matching technique then pins down the ...

Template matching is one of the simplest methods used for eyes and mouth detection. However, it can be modified and extended to become a powerful tool. Since the patch itself plays a significant role in optimizing detection performance, a study on the influence of patch size and shape is carried out. The optimum patch size and shape is determined using the proposed method. Usually, template mat...

This paper presents a novel template-based method to detect objects of interest from real images by shape matching. To locate a target object that has a similar shape to a given template boundary, the proposed method integrates three components: contour grouping, partial shape matching, and boundary verification. In the first component, low-level image features, including edges and corners, are...

Feature-based attention is known to operate in a spatially global manner, in that the selection of attended features is not bound to the spatial focus of attention. Here we used electromagnetic recordings in human observers to characterize the spatiotemporal signature of such global selection of an orientation feature. Observers performed a simple orientation-discrimination task while ignoring ...