Vehicle Number Plate Detection Using CNN

Abstract

Vehicle number plate detection plays an important role in this busy world, due to the heavy rise in vehicles day by day. Passing the tollgates without paying the money, stealing of vehicles, breaking traffic rules, coming into restricted space also are increasing linearly, thus to block this situations vehicle number plate detection is proposed. Among the important process steps such as detection of number plate, segmentation of characters and recognition of each characters, segmentation plays an important role. To avoid problems like unwanted brightness, tilt that degrades the segmentation which in turn affects the recognition accuracy, numerous algorithms are developed for this work. We proposed an approach Vehicle Number Plate Detection using CNN model which is a part of Deep Learning. Our model is pre-trained by feeding 80000 of images also including images which are not Indian vehicles and also which do not have number plate in it. Our approach is simple, fast and inexpensive and does not require huge equipment.