In this paper, we propose a real-time and accurate automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) approach. Our study illustrates the outstanding design of ALPR with four insights: (1) the resampling-based cascaded framework is beneficial to both speed and accuracy; (2) the highly efficient license plate recognition should abundant additional character segmentation and recurrent neural network (RNN), but adopt a plain convolutional neural network (CNN); (3) in the case of CNN, taking advantage of vertex information on license plates improves the recognition performance; and (4) the weight-sharing character classifier addresses the lack of training images in small-scale datasets. Based on these insights, we propose a novel ALPR approach, termed VSNet. Specifically, VSNet includes two CNNs, i.e., VertexNet for license plate detection and SCR-Net for license plate recognition, integrated in a resampling-based cascaded manner. In VertexNet, we propose an efficient integration block to extract the spatial features of license plates. With vertex supervisory information, we propose a vertex-estimation branch in VertexNet such that license plates can be rectified as the input images of SCR-Net. In SCR-Net, we introduce a horizontal encoding technique for left-to-right feature extraction and propose a weight-sharing classifier for character recognition. Experimental results show that the proposed VSNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods by more than 50% relative improvement on error rate, achieving >99% recognition accuracy on CCPD and AOLP datasets with 149 FPS inference speed. Moreover, our method illustrates an outstanding generalization capability when evaluated on the unseen PKUData and CLPD datasets.


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    Titel :

    Rethinking and Designing a High-Performing Automatic License Plate Recognition Approach


    Beteiligte:
    Wang, Yi (Autor:in) / Bian, Zhen-Peng (Autor:in) / Zhou, Yunhao (Autor:in) / Chau, Lap-Pui (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-07-01


    Format / Umfang :

    2863550 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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