Automated Car Plate Detection and Character Recognition with Parking Fee Management using Point Feature Matching

Authors

  • Mohd Nizam Husen, Amir Zakwan Aizat Azizan, Abdulaziz Hadi Saleh Aborujilah, Zahrah Yahya

Abstract

The increase of car ownershipevery year will also produce a higher demands of parking space
especially in office buildings, shopping malls, and high-rise residential buildings.The
difficulties for car drivers at parking lotarethe process of taking, keeping, and paying parking
ticket, as well as searching for available parking lot during peak hours. The conventional
methods of finding parking spaceis time consuming and do not detect the car plate
number.This paper presents a solution in car plate detection and character recognition and
also notifying the drivers on the availability of parking space in real-time.In this study, an
image processing techniqueof point feature matching has been used to detect the car plate
number upon the car entering the building.

Published

2020-06-30

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Articles