融合特征与先验知识的车牌字符图像检测算法.pdfVIP

Computer Engineering and Applications 计算机工程与应用 2012 ，48 （18） 187 融合特征和先验知识的车牌字符图像检测算法 罗辉武，唐远炎，蓝利君，王 翊 LUO Huiwu, TANG Yuanyan, LAN Lijun, WANG Yi 重庆大学 计算机学院，重庆 400030 School of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China LUO Huiwu, TANG Yuanyan, LAN Lijun, et al. License plate character images authenticity detection based on features and prior knowledge. Computer Engineering and Applications, 2012, 48 （18）：187-192. Abstract ：A method based on the structural features of binary images and the color information of the color images is proposed respectively to distinguish the real images from the mixed images of license plate character images. To meet the requirement of a real-time license plate recognition system, binary images are obtained from the gray-scale char images by a fast threshold algorithm. Most of the fake char images are removed, combined the extracted struc- tural features and the inherent characters of vehicle plates. Moreover, the color information of the fake images which are difficult to exclude from structural features will be analysed in HSV color model, and the color images in which huge differences exist from others will be removed at last by the geometric distribution of characters. Experi- mental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is feasible and has a good result. The algorithm is suitable for the real-time license plate recognition system as the post-process part of the character segmentation. Key words ：true characters fake characters distinguish; characters de-noise; characters segmentation; structure features; HSV color analysis; image segmentation; plate segmentation 摘 要：提出一种融合车牌字符切割后的二值字符图像的结构特征及对应的彩色小字符图像的颜色信息对车 牌分割后的小字符图像进行真伪字符图像区分，以此达到检测字符图像目的的算法。为满足实时车牌对时间 响应的要求，对车牌字符切割得到的灰度图像作快速二值化，在二值化的图像上提取结构信息，结合车牌字符 分布的特点去除了大部分非颜色车牌的伪字符图像。对于难以从结构上进行字符检测的颜色车牌伪字符图 像，在结构特征分析的基础上再次通过从彩色图像提取的颜色信息进行相似性分析，排除伪字符图像。对候 选字符图像融合大间隔这个先验知识得到输出的字符图像。实验结果表明算