Visual sensor networks (VSNs) are receiving a lot of attention in research, and at the same
time, commercial applications are starting to emerge. VSN devices come with image …

In this paper we present a full-featured license plate detection and recognition system. The
system is implemented on an embedded DSP platform and processes a video stream in real …

A video-based monitoring system must be capable of continuous operation under various
weather and illumination conditions. Moreover, background subtraction is a very important …

Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) is the process of extracting and recognizing
character information within a localized license plate region. Typically, ALPR involves three …

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) is comprised of small embedded video
motes capable of extracting the surrounding environmental information, locally processing it …

Having seen increased interest from the research community, smart camera systems have
gone through a number of evolutionary steps like from single cameras to distributed smart …

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the last stage in an Automatic Number Plate
Recognition System (ANPRs). In this stage the number plate characters on the number plate …

The emergence of low-cost and mature technologies in wireless communication, visual
sensor devices, and digital signal processing facilitate of wireless multimedia sensor …

The use of wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) for surveillance applications has
attracted the interest of many researchers. As with traditional sensor networks, it is easy to …

The last main stage in an automatic number plate recognition system (ANPRs) is optical
character recognition (OCR), where the number plate characters on the number plate image …