Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

University of Mumbai
Academic Year-2020-21.

Report
On Number Plate Detection using MATLAB
BY

Ms. SAKSHI MANKAR (A-641)

Mr. KANISHKA KISHOR P MANTU MOHAPATRA (A-642)
Ms. KASHISH KOLI (A-647)
Ms. MANSI TALAVADEKAR (A-652)
 
 
Under the Supervision of 
Dr. P.N. Sonar
 INTRODUCTION
 The Number Plate Recognition (NPR) was invented in
1976 at the Police Scientific Development Branch in the
UK .
 Uses of Number Plate Recognition.
 Vehicle number plate region is extracted using the image
segmentation in an image. The system is implemented
and simulated in MATLAB, and its performance is tested
on real image.
 FLOW DIAGRAM

Color to Gray
Input Image Edge Detection
Conversion

Segmentation

Region of interest
Text Recognition Output Image
extraction
 CONCEPTS USED IN PROGRAM
 Colored Image into Gray Image

 Edge detection
CONCEPTS USED IN PROGRAM

 Segmentation
 Region of Interest Extraction
CONCEPTS USED IN PROGRAM

 Text Recognition
 COMMANDS USED
 imread() : This command is used to open the image
into the MATLAB from the target folder.
 rgb2gray():
This command is used to convert the
RGB image into grayscale format.
 imbinarize():This command is used to Binarize 2-D
grayscale image or simply we can say it converts the
image into black and white format.
 edge():This command is used to detect the edges in
the image, by using various methods like Roberts,
Sobel, Prewitt and many others.
 COMMANDS USED
 regionprops() : This command is used to measure
properties of image region.
 numel():This command is used to calculate the
number of array elements.
 imcrop() : This command is used to crop the
image in the entered size.
 bwareaopen() :This command is used to remove
small objects from binary image.
 CONCLUSION
 The number plate region from the image
which consists of vehicle number & then
character segmentation, recognition. We
have tested on many images and found that
it recognizes the number on the plate and
also displays the number plate photo.
 Inthis project we worked on vehicle
number plate recognition system and it was
found that the proposed algorithm works
well on this problem.
 APPLICATIONS
 Parking :- The NPR is used to automatically enter
prepaid members and calculate parking fee for
nonmembers.
 Access control :- A gate automatically opens for
authorized members in a secured area, thus
replacing or assisting the security guard.
 Tolling :- The car number is used to calculate the
travel fee in a toll-road or used to double check
the ticket.
 APPLICATIONS
 Border Security :- The car number is registered in
the entry or exits to the country and used to
monitor the border crossings.
 TrafficControl :- The vehicles can be directed to
different lanes according to their entry permits.
The system reduces the traffic congestions and
number of attendants.
 Airport Parking :- In order to reduce ticket frauds
or mistakes, the NPR unit is used to capture the
number plate and image of the car.
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 R.Radha1 and C.P.Sumathi2, “A Novel approach to
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No.4, August 2012 .
 Shen Zheng Wang & His-Jian Lee “Detection and
Recognition of License Plate Characters with Different
Appearances”,IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems,
Proceedings 2003 , vol.2
 Humayun Karim Sulehria, Ye Zhang, Danish Irfan, Atif
Karim Sulehria, “ Vehicle Number Plate Recognition Using
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