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Main Authors: Ribeiro, Victor Nascimento, Hirata, Nina S. T.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04750
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author Ribeiro, Victor Nascimento
Hirata, Nina S. T.
author_facet Ribeiro, Victor Nascimento
Hirata, Nina S. T.
contents Video-based Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) involves extracting vehicle license plate text information from video captures. Traditional systems typically rely heavily on high-end computing resources and utilize multiple frames to recognize license plates, leading to increased computational overhead. In this paper, we propose two methods capable of efficiently extracting exactly one frame per vehicle and recognizing its license plate characters from this single image, thus significantly reducing computational demands. The first method uses Visual Rhythm (VR) to generate time-spatial images from videos, while the second employs Accumulative Line Analysis (ALA), a novel algorithm based on single-line video processing for real-time operation. Both methods leverage YOLO for license plate detection within the frame and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract textual information. Experiments on real videos demonstrate that the proposed methods achieve results comparable to traditional frame-by-frame approaches, with processing speeds three times faster.
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spellingShingle Efficient License Plate Recognition in Videos Using Visual Rhythm and Accumulative Line Analysis
Ribeiro, Victor Nascimento
Hirata, Nina S. T.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Video-based Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) involves extracting vehicle license plate text information from video captures. Traditional systems typically rely heavily on high-end computing resources and utilize multiple frames to recognize license plates, leading to increased computational overhead. In this paper, we propose two methods capable of efficiently extracting exactly one frame per vehicle and recognizing its license plate characters from this single image, thus significantly reducing computational demands. The first method uses Visual Rhythm (VR) to generate time-spatial images from videos, while the second employs Accumulative Line Analysis (ALA), a novel algorithm based on single-line video processing for real-time operation. Both methods leverage YOLO for license plate detection within the frame and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract textual information. Experiments on real videos demonstrate that the proposed methods achieve results comparable to traditional frame-by-frame approaches, with processing speeds three times faster.
title Efficient License Plate Recognition in Videos Using Visual Rhythm and Accumulative Line Analysis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04750