Multinational Licnese Plate Recognition Using Generalized Character Sequence Detection

Introduction

  • Multinational ALPR is a challenging issue

    • The differences in license plate (LP) layouts among different countries

    • The non-availability of public multinational LP datasets

Materials and methods

Dataset

LPD

Purpose

KarPlate (LPD)

AOLP (AC)

AOLP (LE)

AOLP (RP)

Medialab LPR

University of Zagreb

OpenALPR (EU)

OpenALPR (US)

Train

3,417 → 30,000

681

757

279 → 259

401

108

244

Test

850

681

757

611

437 → 431

100

Total

4,267 → ?

681

757

611

716 → 690

510 → 501

108

244

LPR

Purpose

KarPlate (LPR)

AOLP (AC)

AOLP (LE)

AOLP (RP)

Medialab LPR

Caltech Cars (Rear) 1999

University of Zagreb

OpenALPR (EU)

OpenALPR (US)

Train

3,417 → 60,000

681

757

279 → 259

80

401

108

244

Test

850

681

757

611

437 → 431

46

100

Total

4,267 → ?

681

757

611

716 → 690

126

510 → 501

108

244

Reference

  • Multinational Licnese Plate Recognition Using Generalized Character Sequence Detection, CVPR, 2019