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During recent years, license plate recognition have been widely used as a core technology for security or traffic applications such as in traffic surveillance, parking lot access control, and information management. In this paper, Shadow Aware License Plate Recognition (SALPR) system is proposed to recognize Egyptian LP. This system achieves high recognition rate through applying shadow detection and removal, rotation adjustment and using Multilayer perceptron as a powerful tool to perform the recognition process. To show the efficiency of the proposed system, experiments have been done on numerous captured images including various types of vehicles with different lighting and noise effects. The experimental results yield 95.5 % recognition accuracy, the recognition process takes 1.6 s to recognize plate information. Most of the elapsed time used is for the license plate extraction and rotation adjustment. The results show the feasibility of the methodology followed in this paper. Performance comparison between SALPR and other LP recognition techniques shows that for most of the cases, SALPR performs better than other techniques under different lighting conditions and it shows the high robustness of the proposed algorithm.
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El-said, S.A. Shadow aware license plate recognition system. Soft Comput 19, 225–235 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-014-1245-5
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