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July 1, 2018Open Access

A Robust Real-Time Automatic License Plate Recognition Based on the YOLO Detector

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RLRayson LarocaPontifícia Universidade Católica do ParanáESEvair Borges SeveroHôpital intercantonal de la BroyeLZLuiz A. ZanlorensiUniversidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná

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Overview

Benchmark evaluation demonstrates superior real-time license plate recognition across moving vehicle videos, highlighting improved robustness over commercial systems.

Key Points

  • Develop a robust, real-time automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system capable of maintaining high accuracy across diverse vehicle types and unconstrained operating conditions.
  • Trained and fine-tuned convolutional neural networks based on the YOLO detector across each ALPR stage, incorporating a two-stage character segmentation and recognition pipeline.
  • Implemented data augmentation strategies, including plate inversion and character flipping, to enhance tolerance to lighting, camera, and background variations.
  • Evaluated system accuracy and throughput on the SSIG benchmark (2,000 frames from 101 videos) and a newly introduced UFPR-ALPR dataset (4,500 frames from 150 videos) recorded under dynamic camera and vehicle motion.
  • Achieved a 93.53% recognition rate at 47 frames per second (FPS) on the SSIG dataset, surpassing Sighthound (89.80%), OpenALPR (93.03%), and the previous benchmark (81.80%).
  • Attained a 78.33% recognition rate at 35 FPS on the UFPR-ALPR dataset, whereas trial versions of commercial ALPR systems scored below 70%.

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Laroca et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a00a9847ac91c5d2a2d6e10https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn.2018.8489629
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