Car License Plate Extraction and Recognition Technology (C.A.R.P.E.T)
Another major student project is Car License Plate Extraction and Recognition Technology (C.A.R.P.E.T), a solution for car parks, toll booths, traffic enforcement, traffic monitoring, stolen car tracking and access control. C.A.R.P.E.T utilises an array of cutting-edge techniques such as i) variants of Otsu thresholding for image enhancement in poor lighting conditions, ii) Burn's algorithm for noise reduction, iii) morphology for license plate location, iv) variants of the drop-fall method for character segmentation, and v) neural networks for character recognition. The main advantage of C.A.R.P.E.T is that, unlike most competing systems, it does not require special hardware such as proprietary video cards and vehicle sensors.