Identification of Unauthorized Vehicles by License Plate Recognition Through Image Processing

Abstract

The identification of vehicle's license plates is becoming increasingly essential in the digital transportation system, particularly in Bangladesh. Improved safety, access to vehicles in authorized locations, time savings at tolls, and the discovery of guilty automobiles engaged in street accidents or other connected crimes are just a few of the benefits. This paper presents a simple method to identify the Bengali license plate used in the front and back sides of a registered vehicle through image processing. Number plate extraction, character segmentation, and character identification are the three fundamental pre-processing phases in the recommended approach. The test picture has been converted to gray level at the pre-processing stage. The proposed approach extracts the area from the license plate more effectively. Improved identification rate is found compared to some studies which has been carried out previously.