Malaysian license plate number detection based on sobel vertical edge algorithm / Siti Nor Azimah Ibrahim

Transportation is the most important in daily live. Nowadays people use verity of
transportation either on the road, air or water. Recently, in Malaysia the use of vehicles
has been increased because of the population growth and human needs. Furthermore,
Malaysian had been produced many types of vehicles to be used. Therefore, the control
of vehicles is become more complex and much more difficult to solve.
A License Plate Recognition (LPR) System is one kind of Intelligent Transport
systems and is of considerable interest because of its potential applications to areas such
as highway electronic toll collection, Traffic Monitoring System and so on. The system
captures the images of the vehicles with a digital camera. An algorithm for the detection
of license plate has been designed and an algorithm for filter the detected edge is
proposed for future process which is plate number extraction
This project describes the method used by a computer to convert digital images
of vehicles license plate into electronic text. Sobel Vertical Edge Algorithm approach
will be used in order to detect the license plate number fi-om digital image as well as
some experimental result to filter the detected edge of license plate successfully.