ABSTRACT

An Image processing of a vehicle image to recognize its number plate is one kind of
an Intelligent Transport System and is of considerable interest because of its potential
applications in highway electronic toll collection and traffic monitoring systems. This type of
applications puts high demands on the reliability of an image processing System for accuracy
and efficiency of the system.

The purpose of this thesis was to develop an application which recognizes license
plates from cars at a gate, for example at the entrance of a parking area or a border crossing.
The system based on regular PC with video camera, where the video frames include a visible
car license plate and processes them. Once a license plate is detected, its digits are
recognized, displayed on the User Interface or checked against a database. The focus is on the
design of algorithms used for extracting the license plate from a single image, isolating the
characters of the plate and identifying the individual characters.

The Proposed system has been implemented using Java programming language. The
performance of the system has been investigated on real images of about 100 vehicles.
Recognition of about 98% vehicles shows that the system is quite efficient.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It gives me an immense pleasure to write an acknowledgement to this seminar report, a

contribution of all people who helped me realize it.

We express our sincere gratitude and profuse thanks to our principal Dr. G.P Prabhukumar
of Acharya institute of technology for giving encouragement and enthusiasm in the successful
completion of the project work.

We sincerely thank Prof. H.S RameshBabu HOD, Dept of ISE for his help and
encouragement for the successful completion of the project work.

We sincerely thank our guide Mr. Surendra Babu K N Lecturer, Dept of ISE for his
untiring efforts and guidance throughout the project work and corrected our bearings and
guided us whenever we departed from our charted course.

We also indebted to our friends for their continued moral and material support throughout the
course of the project work.

Finally a note of thanks to the Department of Information Science and Engineering, both
teaching and non-teaching staff for their co-operation extended to us.

PRASHANTH S (1AY03IS113)
SACHIN H.C (1AY05IS062)
SUCHITRA B.S (1AY03IS086)
ANSHU GHIMIRE (1AY05IS133)

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.2 EXISTING SYSTEM 1

1.3 PROPOSED SYSTEM 2

1.4 WORKING 2

1.5 STRUCTURE OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM 2

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE SURVEY 4

2.1 INTRODUCTION 4

2.2 IMAGE ACQUISTION 4

2.3 LICENSE PLATE EXTRACTION 5

2.4 SEGMENTATION 6

2.5 RECOGNITION 6

CHAPTER 3: REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION 8

3.1 IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM 8

3.2 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS 10

3.3 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS 10

CHAPTER 4: DETAILED DESIGN 11

4.1 FLOW CHART OF THE IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM 11

CHAPTER 5: SYSTEM DESIGN 14

5.1 LOADING OF IMAGE 14

5.2 EXTRACTION OF NUMBER PLATE 14

5.3 SEGMENTATION OF CHARACTERS 15

5.4 RECOGNITION OF CHARACTERS 15

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 5.5 MATCHING RECOGNISED CHARACTERS WITH THE DATABASE 15

5.6 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM OF THE IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM 15

CHAPTER 6: IMPLEMATATION 17

6.1 IMPLEMENTATION. 17

6.2 PROGRAM MODULES 18

CHAPTER 7: SOFTWARE TESTING 28

7.1 TEST CASES 31

CHAPTER 8: APPLICATIONS 42

8.1 ADVANTAGES. 43

8.2 DISADVANTAGES 44

CHAPTER 9: SNAPSHOTS 45

9.1 INITIALIZING THE SYSTEM 45

9.2 IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM GUI 45

9.3 LOADING IMAGES TO THE SYSTEM 46

9.4 SELECTING FOLDER OF IMAGES TO BE LOADED TO THE SYSTEM 47

9.5 IMAGES BEING LOADED TO THE SYSTEM48

9.6 SELECT THE IMAGE TO ANALYSE 49

9.7 ANALYSING AND PROCESSING THE IMAGE 50

9.8 IMAGE AFTER ANALYSIS 51

9.9 SKEWED NUMBER PLATE AFTER ANALYSIS 52

CONCLUSION 53

FUTURE SCOPE 53

REFERENCES 54

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