Number Plate Recognition

Abstract

With India growing it has made the ownership of vehicles a necessity. This has resulted in an civic problem. Parking areas have become congested due to the growing numbers of vehicles. The Number Plate Recognition System (NPR) plays an important role in different application as it is from parking to monitoring urban traffic and tracking automobile thefts. There are various NPR systems available today which work with different methodologies. In this paper, we attempt to review the various techniques and their usage. The NPR system has been implemented using template Matching and its accuracy was found to be 90.2% for number plates