A CHARACTER SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM FOR VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES

摘要

An efficient computational method of segmentation of license plate characters is considered. Division into blocks is carried out on the assumption that the characters are localized in certain specific areas. The license plate image is divided into n parts, where n is the number of characters. The paper also describes a segmentation algorithm that underlies a modified version of this algorithm. Contour analysis was used as a mathematical apparatus for the solution of this problem. The proposed character segmentation algorithm allows its use in vehicle license plate recognition systems.