real-time image capturing system for car plate recognition

CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTIONNowadays, transportation has becoming one of the important core factorswhich contribute to the growth of a country. The development of the IntelligentTransportation System (ITS) has attracted worldwide attention from many fields,either automotive industry or transportation professional to involve it. As a result,there are a lot of researches on improving the transportation was carried out andspread over many different technology sectors. Among these, Car Plate RecognitionSystem (CPRS) is the most significant research issue [1].Basically, car plate or vehicle registration plate is a plate which is made byeither metal or plastic and is usually will be attached to the front or back of a vehicle.Car plate number is a combination between numbers and alphabetical letter whichcan be used to represent an identity of respective vehicle. In Malaysia, vehicle plateis derived from early iterations of license plate designed in United Kingdom. Thefirst letter of the vehicle serves as the location prefix and followed by four numericaldigits.A Car Plate Recognition System is a tracking system that identifies thevehicle so that the car is tracked down through the existing database. Normally therecognition system will be installed at the gate of the residential area, factoryentrance, parking lot, toll gates, entrance of university or other high-secured building.The system will identify the vehicle automatically by recognising the target car platewhich may involve in stolen vehicle case, crime scenes and traffic violations. Hence,