Challenges

Challenges in Number Plate recognition

          Firstly in India the law for following the standards for a number plate are not enforced. Hence we can expect to find some out of the box number plates on vehicles, which is hard for the system to read.

Number plates not following standards

          Number Plates in different languages, India is a diverse country so are its number plates, with number plates in different languages in different states, the system to identify these number plates becomes a level more complex.

Number plate in kannada

          We ran our system for both the front end and the back end of the car, it is easier to read the number plate form the front of the vehicle than the rear. As the rear number plate of a car is surrounded by various details of the vehicle and its manufacturer it hinders in the complete and correct read of the number plate.

Car and manufacturer details that makes it hard to zero in on the number plate 

          Also in the case of reading the rear number plate of a vehicle the number plate is usually written in two lines, the system will read each character form the plate but the output will be out of order.

Number plate recognized correctly but out of order 

Similar characters like ‘2’ and ‘Z’ and different representations of letters like ‘M’ lead to misfires in the recognition of the characters. We have achieved a 100% accuracy with the number in the number plate but only a 87% accuracy in reading the characters in the number plate.

Two different styles of M