Learning to Decipher License Plates in Severely Degraded Images

Autor: Franziska Schirrmacher, Paula Kaiser, Benedikt Lorch, Christian Riess
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges ISBN: 9783030687793
ICPR Workshops (6)
Popis: License plate recognition is instrumental in many forensic investigations involving organized crime and gang crime, burglaries and trafficking of illicit goods or persons. After an incident, recordings are collected by police officers from cameras in-the-wild at gas stations or public facilities. In such an uncontrolled environment, a generally low image quality and strong compression oftentimes make it impossible to read license plates. Recent works showed that characters from US license plates can be reconstructed from noisy, low resolution pictures using convolutional neural networks (CNN). However, these studies do not involve compression, which is arguably the most prevalent image degradation in real investigations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE