Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) used for many applications especially in security applications, including border control. However, more accurate and language-independent techniques are still needed. This work provides a new approach to identifying Arabic plates different formats, colors, even English characters. Numbers, characters, layouts with either 1-line or 2-line presented. For...

The motor vehicle is an important way of transportation for modern people, and its license plate is just like our identi ̄cation cards which can be used for e®ective management of motor vehicles. Hence, the development of a recognition system for license plates can reduce the workload of managing motor vehicles. A license plate recognition system based on computer vision often causes recognition...

The automatic license plate recognition system is the important part of the modern intelligent transportation system (ITS), and the first key step of the license plate recognition is to find and separate the license plate area from the image of license plate. In this article, the quality of the license plate image is improved though a series of digital image processing in the image pretreatment...