LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION BASED ON

SOBEL ALGORITHM

PHASE II REPORT

Submitted by

R.VINOTHINI

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of

MASTER OF ENGINEERING IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

TRICHY ENGINEERING COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING
ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

JUNE 2016
 ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

Certified that this Project Report Titled “LICENSE PLATE

RECOGNITION BASED ON SOBEL ALGORITHM’’ is the bonafide

work of R.VINOTHINI (Reg. No. 814614405003) who carried out the

work under my supervision. Certified further, that to the best of my

knowledge the work reported herein does not form part of any other thesis

or dissertation on the basis of which a degree or award was conferred on

an earlier occasion on this or any other candidate.

SIGNATURE SIGNATURE

Mrs.P.ARASAI M.E., Mr. SELVAMANI

Head Of The Department, Project Supervisor,
Department of Computer Science and Department of Computer Science
Engineering, and Engineering,
Trichy Engineering College, Trichy Engineering College,
Trichy-621 132 . Trichy-621 132 .

Submitted for the Project Phase II Viva-Voce held at Trichy Engineering

College on _________________
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 ABSTRACT
The objective of this project is to extract the license plate information from a
vehicle. The extracted information can be used with or without a database in many
applications, such as electronic payment systems (toll payment, parking fee payment) and
monitoring system for traffic surveillance.
In this project, proposes a way of vehicle license plate recognition. License plate
recognition is divided into three parts namely license positioning, character segmentation
and character recognition. In license positioning, the license positioning method is based
on median filtering double edge detection. In character segmentation, it adopts a
combinative method of locating the original level and improved vertical projection
segmentation algorithm. In character recognition, the recognition method is based on
classification template matching of font characteristics.
The proposed license recognition method focuses on the timeliness of recognition
process. Its smaller calculation largely reduces the time of license recognition, with high
accuracy and precision rate at the same time. This system is implemented by Java
Eclipse.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First, I would like to thank the almighty for giving me talents and
opportunity to complete my project and to my family for their unwavering
support.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to our college Chairperson,

Dr.S.Sujatha Subramanian, for providing large facilities in the institution for the
completion of the project work.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to our dynamic Secretary,

Mr.S.Subramanian, for his moral support towards our project.

I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to our principal,

Dr.R.M.Ramachandran, M.Tech.,Ph.D., for encouraging to do innovation
project.

I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to our vice principal,

Dr.M.Anusuya Ph.D., for encouraging to do innovation project.

I wish to express my heartful thanks and sincere gratitude to our Head of

the Department, Mrs.P.Arasai M.E., for his valuable advice to complete this
work successfully and also for his enthusiastic encouragement to make my effort
worthwhile and fruitful.

I am extremely indebted to my project supervisor Mr.S.Selvamani

M.E.,M.Tech Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science &
Engineering, who extended his full co-operation, advice and valuable guidance
which helped me to take further steps into the depth of my project.

I also thank all the Faculty members of department of Computer Science

and Engineering for their support and encouragement.

R.VINOTHINI
II-M.E.,(CSE)
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ABSTRACT(TAMIL) iii

ABSTRACT(ENGLISH) iv

LIST OF FIGURES viii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ix

1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 OVERVIEW 1
1.2 DOMAIN INTRODUCTION 3
2 LITERATURE SURVEY 5

2.1 SYSTEM ANALYSIS 16

2.1.1 EXISTING SYSTEM 16

2.1.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM 20

3 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN 23

3.1 ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM 23

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3.2 UML DIAGRAM 25

3.3.1 USECASE DIAGRAM 25

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3.3.3 CLASS DIAGRAM 26

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4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 29
 4.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS 29

4.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS 29

5 IMPLEMENTATION 30

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5.1 MODULES 36

5.1.1 Pre-processing 36

5.1.2 PREPROCESSING 37

5.1.3 COLLABORATIVE FILTERING 38

5.1.4 RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS 39

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6 TESTING 42
7 RESULT 45
7.1 CONCLUSION AND RESULT 45
7.2 FUTURE SCOPE 46
APPENDIX I 47

APPENDIX II 56
PUPLICATIONS 69
REFERENCES 70