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License Plate Localization With Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo

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This paper presents a novel efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for License Plate (LP) localization. The proposed method formulates the LP image feature and prior knowledge into a unified Bayesian framework. Then the localization problem is derived as a maximizing-a-posterior (MAP) problem, which integrates color, edge and character feature of LP. We propose an efficient MCMC method, taking integrated local geometrical likelihood as proposal probability to make the inference feasible. The experimental results on real dataset are very promising in terms of detection rate and localization accuracy.

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        ICIMCS '14: Proceedings of International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service
        July 2014
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        ISBN:9781450328104
        DOI:10.1145/2632856

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