Vehicle Number Plate Detection through live stream using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Vehicle Number Plate Detection or Automatic Vehicle Plate Recognition (AVPR) is a technology that is applied in urban areas to help the law enforcement in investigation and crime prevention. Vehicles going at illegal speeds, stolen vehicles etc. can all be recognized automatically using AVPR without human intervention or human errors. It has been used widely in vehicle toll booths on the highways as well as in Parking Management Systems where there is a rigid shooting angle that can capture the licence plates of the vehicles efficiently. The main aim is to create a useful model for handling challenges such as traffic jams in parking areas due to incorrect parking, automobile insecurity, etc. In this study, an approach of Automatic Vehicle Plate Recognition using livestream is discussed by considering image size, success rate and processing time as parameters. An extension to Automatic Vehicle Plate Recognition (AVPR) is also suggested towards the end of this study.