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Benchmark for License Plate Character Segmentation
Gabriel Resende Gonçalves, Sirlene Pio Gomes da Silva, David Menotti, William Robson Schwartz
Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) has been the focus of many researches in the past years. In general, ALPR is divided into the following problems: detection of on-track vehicles, license plates detection, segmention of license plate characters and optical character recognition (OCR). Even though commercial solutions are available for controlled acquisition conditions, e.g., the entrance of a parking lot, ALPR is still an open problem when dealing with data acquired from uncontrolled environments, such as roads and highways when relying only on imaging sensors. Due to the multiple orientations and scales of the license plates captured by the camera, a very challenging task of the ALPR is the License Plate Character Segmentation (LPCS) step, which effectiveness is required to be (near) optimal to achieve a high recognition rate by the OCR. To tackle the LPCS problem, this work proposes a novel benchmark composed of a dataset designed to focus specifically on the character segmentation step of the ALPR within an evaluation protocol. Furthermore, we propose the Jaccard-Centroid coefficient, a new evaluation measure more suitable than the Jaccard coefficient regarding the location of the bounding box within the ground-truth annotation. The dataset is composed of 2,000 Brazilian license plates consisting of 14,000 alphanumeric symbols and their corresponding bounding box annotations. We also present a new straightforward approach to perform LPCS efficiently. Finally, we provide an experimental evaluation for the dataset based on four LPCS approaches and demonstrate the importance of character segmentation for achieving an accurate OCR.
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