Saudi license plate localization using hybrid method

Abstract

In this paper, localizing Saudi license plates in images using the “character recognition” method is described. In this method, all possible objects from the license plate image are filtered to keep only objects which may belong to a Saudi license plate. Filtering is done by checking each object to see whether it is a possible letter or number (in Arabic or English) that could be part of a Saudi license plate. If there exist both Arabic and English patterns that agree, the license plate is recognized. The method correctly localized and recognized Saudi license plates 83.9% of the times. The cases where the method did not work were for noisy images of license plates.