@inproceedings{73971674f05c48b0905cc6ab9555cdce,
title = "A method based on orientation field for skew correction of license plate",
abstract = "Character recognitions are generally very sensitive to skew in the automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system. The skew correction of license plate thus is an important step in ALPR. In this paper, we propose an orientation-based method for skew detection. The license plate image is firstly divided into a set of 5x5 non-overlapping blocks. The local orientation of each black is estimated by gradients of pixels in the block. Next, the direction histogram which can reveal the overall orientation information in the license plate image is counted. The skew angle of license plate is detected by the local maximum of the direction histogram. The experimental results demonstrate the great robustness and efficiency of our method.",
keywords = "Direction histogram, License plate recognition, Orientation field, Skew correction",
author = "Xiaojuan Ma and Renlong Pan and Lin Wang and Xiangjian He",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/PACIIA.2009.5406599",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424446070",
series = "PACIIA 2009 - 2009 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications",
pages = "308--311",
booktitle = "PACIIA 2009 - 2009 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications",
note = "2009 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications, PACIIA 2009 ; Conference date: 28-11-2009 Through 29-11-2009",
}