The main goal of this project was to design a real time android application that recognizes cars in an entrance to a parking lot by their plate
Abtract
The main goal of this project was to design a real time android application that recognizes cars in an entrance to a parking lot by their plate.
Guidelines
- Designing an ANPR image processing algorithm using C++ and openCV
- Implement the algorithm on an android platform, creating its application environment and interface
The image processing algorithm
The Application
App design stages
App interface
Problems Encountered
- Combination of C++, openCV (image processing) and Java (application platform) required a lot of adjustments
- The need of a practical real time application ruled out solutions that didn’t show satisfying performance (camera too slow etc.). We had to put a lot of effort in to finding suffiecient solutions
- openCV unfamiliarities – made us put a lot of
time and effort over debug - Working with and searching for solutions in
openCV was somewhat unstable since openCV
environment changes and develops constantly
Summary
- We designed a high performance algorithm that detects license plates of cars
- We implmented that code on an android platform, creating a stable, generic android application that detects license plates on passing cars, at the entrance to a parking lot, and saves the photos on the device, for future use
- Through this project we learned a lot about image processing, openCV and programming