Control Engineering of China.
2013, 20(6):
1014.
For the problems that Hough transform can not correct the license plate without frame border and Radon transform is computation-intensive and time-consuming, a fast algorithm combined Hough transform and Radon transform for license plate tilt correction was proposed. By setting effective detection areas and making full use of Krisch to get the horizontal edge, this method can correct both the rim license plates and the rimless ones fast and effectively. Selected 200 artificial slanted pictures to verify the accuracy of angle inclination got from the algorithm, and selected 400 natural slanted pictures to compare the speed and accuracy of the three algorithms, namely Hough, Radon and the method in this paper. Performed in Matlab platform with the angle ranged in [-20°,20°], the average execution time of the proposed algorithm is 0.38s and its accuracy achieves more than 90%. Experimental results show the algorithm is fast, accurate and robust.