License Plate Location Based on Multi Agent Systems

In this paper, a new algorithm for vehicle license plate location is proposed, on the basis of multi agent systems. The algorithm was tested with 400 natural-scene gray-level vehicle images of different backgrounds and ambient illumination. The camera focused in the plate, while the angle of view and the distance from the vehicle varied according to the experimental setup. The license plates properly segmented about 99 percent of input images (99%).