Deep learning based image recognition for vehicle number information

Abstract

A number plate contains a sign affixed to the front and rear of a vehicle for displaying its registration number. This registration number is used for the official identification purposes by the authorities. Most regular Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques perform well in recognizing printed characters on documents but cannot make out the registration number on the number plates. Besides, the existing approaches to number plate detection require that the vehicle is stationary and not in motion. To address these challenges to Number plate detection we make the following contributions: i. Use Neural Networks based Number plate character recognition, ii. Create a database of captured vehicle number plate’s images, iii. Provide a client-server solution for quickly getting the details of a vehicle’s ownership.