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2010

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Matching Vehicle License Plate Numbers Using License Plate Recognition And Text Mining Techniques, Francisco Moraes Oliveira Neto Aug 2010

Matching Vehicle License Plate Numbers Using License Plate Recognition And Text Mining Techniques, Francisco Moraes Oliveira Neto

Doctoral Dissertations

License plate recognition (LPR) technology has been widely applied in many different transportation applications such as enforcement, vehicle monitoring and access control. In most applications involving enforcement (e.g. cashless toll collection, congestion charging) and access control (e.g. car parking) a plate is recognized at one location (or checkpoint) and compared against a list of authorized vehicles. In this research I dealt with applications where a vehicle is detected at two locations and there is no list of reference for vehicle identification.

There seems to be very little effort in the past to exploit all information generated by LPR systems. In …