Learning global and local features for license plate detection

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Conference Proceeding
Citation:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2011, 7064 LNCS (PART 3), pp. 547 - 556
Issue Date:
2011-11-28
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This paper proposes an intelligent system that is capable of automatically detecting license plates from static images captured by a digital still camera. A supervised learning approach is used to extract features from license plates, and both global feature and local feature are organized into a cascaded structure. In general, our framework can be divided into two stages. The first stage is constructed by extracting global correlation features and a posterior probability can be estimated to quickly determine the degree of resemblance between the evaluated image region and a license plate. The second stage is constructed by further extracting local dense-SIFT (dSIFT) features for AdaBoost supervised learning approach, and the selected dSIFT features will be used to construct a strong classifier. Using dSIFT as a type of highly distinctive local feature, our algorithm gives high detection rate under various complex conditions. The proposed framework is compared with existing works and promising results are obtained. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
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