Hardware-accelerated localization for automated license plate recognition system

Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a continuous process of extracting license plate information from a series of input images. Localization is an imperative stage in ALPR system because it extracts the sub image which contains the potential license plate for subsequent processing. Many AL...

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Main Author: Chin, Teck Loong
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Language:English
Published: 2014
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spelling my-utm-ep.487582020-06-23T08:01:28Z Hardware-accelerated localization for automated license plate recognition system 2014-12 Chin, Teck Loong TK7885-7895 Computer engineer. Computer hardware Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a continuous process of extracting license plate information from a series of input images. Localization is an imperative stage in ALPR system because it extracts the sub image which contains the potential license plate for subsequent processing. Many ALPR systems are designed to operate on general purpose processor, in which the low degree of instruction and data level parallelism is not maximized, resulting in lower efficiency. Also, current ALPR system in the market is not modular and generalized to cater license plates from different nations with different languages and standards. This project proposes a multi-feature extraction algorithm for license plate localization catering various plate and environment variation factors, as well as hardware architecture to implement the algorithm with full modularity baseline. The proposed hardware architecture has been successfully modelled and implemented using System Verilog. It achieves an average speed up of 222x across different test images compared to software-based algorithm and 100% matching the localization accuracy in software. 2014-12 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48758/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48758/1/ChinTeckLoongMFKE2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:86763 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
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Computer hardware
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Computer hardware
Chin, Teck Loong
Hardware-accelerated localization for automated license plate recognition system
description Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a continuous process of extracting license plate information from a series of input images. Localization is an imperative stage in ALPR system because it extracts the sub image which contains the potential license plate for subsequent processing. Many ALPR systems are designed to operate on general purpose processor, in which the low degree of instruction and data level parallelism is not maximized, resulting in lower efficiency. Also, current ALPR system in the market is not modular and generalized to cater license plates from different nations with different languages and standards. This project proposes a multi-feature extraction algorithm for license plate localization catering various plate and environment variation factors, as well as hardware architecture to implement the algorithm with full modularity baseline. The proposed hardware architecture has been successfully modelled and implemented using System Verilog. It achieves an average speed up of 222x across different test images compared to software-based algorithm and 100% matching the localization accuracy in software.
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author Chin, Teck Loong
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title Hardware-accelerated localization for automated license plate recognition system
title_short Hardware-accelerated localization for automated license plate recognition system
title_full Hardware-accelerated localization for automated license plate recognition system
title_fullStr Hardware-accelerated localization for automated license plate recognition system
title_full_unstemmed Hardware-accelerated localization for automated license plate recognition system
title_sort hardware-accelerated localization for automated license plate recognition system
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2014
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48758/1/ChinTeckLoongMFKE2014.pdf
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