An automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is a popular topic in the field of image processing and is considered from different aspects, since early 90s. There are many challenges in this field, including; fast moving vehicles, different viewing angles and different distances from camera, complex and unpredictable backgrounds, poor quality images, existence of multiple plates in the scene, va...

Nowadays, several infrastructure-based low-frequency acoustical sensor networks are employed in different applications to monitor the activity of diverse natural and man-made phenomena, such as avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, severe storms, super-sonic aircraft flights, etc. Two signal detection methods are usually implemented in these networks for the purpose of event occurrence i...