Number Plate Recognition System using MATLAB

With the ever-increasing population, increasing daily use of vehicles, increasing thefts, and traffic rule violations, maintaining a manual record of these vehicles is extremely difficult and impracticable. Today, we need sophisticated technologies to create a virtual network of law enforcement that can operate autonomously without human involvement. Gone are the days when tens of policemen were stationed every 10 km (miles) to monitor the traffic and enforce traffic restrictions. An automatic number plate detection system is designed in this paper in order to manage traffic, thefts, and toll collection. The designed system is cost-efficient and uses a widely used software named MATLAB. It involves three main phases: pre-processing, detection, and recognition. Character segmentation, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques are used followed by an artificial neural network