Number Plate Detection and Recognition using a Novel Computer Vision Approach for Indian Motor Vehicles

Number plate detection research problem was carried out for some duration. Since each country has their own way of representing numbers for the vehicles, we couldn't recognize all at once. In this paper, we focus on Indian vehicles' number plate. Digital images are used in this model, so it provides additional features in security aspects like theft, parking in office, and in apartments to check only authorized persons are coming. The proposed method uses canny edge detection to find the edges of the vehicle, and the morphological transformation is used to highlight the characters in the number plate. Optical character recognition (OCR) is used to recognize the characters from the number plate, and we use bilateral filters to remove the noises.