To study the characteristics of license plate characters recognition,this paper proposes a method for fea- ture extraction of license plate characters based on two-dimensional wavelet packet.We decompose license plate...To study the characteristics of license plate characters recognition,this paper proposes a method for fea- ture extraction of license plate characters based on two-dimensional wavelet packet.We decompose license plate character images with two dimensional-wavelet packet and search for the optimal wavelet packet basis.This paper pre- sents a criterion of searching for the optimal wavelet packet basis,and a practical algorithm.The obtained optimal wavelet packet basis is used as the feature of license plate character,and a BP neural network is used to classify the character.The test- ing results show that the proposed method achieved higher recognition rate than the traditional methods.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.BK2004077).
文摘To study the characteristics of license plate characters recognition,this paper proposes a method for fea- ture extraction of license plate characters based on two-dimensional wavelet packet.We decompose license plate character images with two dimensional-wavelet packet and search for the optimal wavelet packet basis.This paper pre- sents a criterion of searching for the optimal wavelet packet basis,and a practical algorithm.The obtained optimal wavelet packet basis is used as the feature of license plate character,and a BP neural network is used to classify the character.The test- ing results show that the proposed method achieved higher recognition rate than the traditional methods.