License Plate Recognition

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

10 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 10 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

15 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

27 shown of 27 papers with code (94 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• LPRNet: License Plate Recognition via Deep Neural Networks
  27 Jun 2018 7 repositories listed
  This paper proposes LPRNet - end-to-end method for Automatic License Plate Recognition without preliminary character segmentation.
• Combining Attention Module and Pixel Shuffle for License Plate Super-Resolution
  30 Oct 2022 3 repositories listed
  The License Plate Recognition (LPR) field has made impressive advances in the last decade due to novel deep learning approaches combined with the increased availability of training data.
• Vehicle and License Plate Recognition with Novel Dataset for Toll Collection
  11 Feb 2022 3 repositories listed
  The best Mean Average Precision (mAP@0.
• Super-Resolution of License Plate Images Using Attention Modules and Sub-Pixel Convolution Layers
  27 May 2023 2 repositories listed
  As a result, the generated images have a Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) of less than 0.
• A Robust Real-Time Automatic License Plate Recognition Based on the YOLO Detector
  26 Feb 2018 2 repositories listed
  First, in the SSIG dataset, composed of 2, 000 frames from 101 vehicle videos, our system achieved a recognition rate of 93.
• Toward Advancing License Plate Super-Resolution in Real-World Scenarios: A Dataset and Benchmark
  9 May 2025 1 repository listed
  We also investigate three fusion strategies to evaluate how combining predictions from a leading Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model for multiple super-resolved license plates enhances overall performance.
• Efficient License Plate Recognition in Videos Using Visual Rhythm and Accumulative Line Analysis
  8 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Video-based Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) involves extracting vehicle license plate text information from video captures.
• Efficient Video-Based ALPR System Using YOLO and Visual Rhythm
  4 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) involves extracting vehicle license plate information from image or a video capture.
• Enhancing License Plate Super-Resolution: A Layout-Aware and Character-Driven Approach
  27 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  Despite significant advancements in License Plate Recognition (LPR) through deep learning, most improvements rely on high-resolution images with clear characters.
• Toward Enhancing Vehicle Color Recognition in Adverse Conditions: A Dataset and Benchmark
  21 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  Vehicle information recognition is crucial in various practical domains, particularly in criminal investigations.
• A Training-Free Framework for Video License Plate Tracking and Recognition with Only One-Shot
  11 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  We propose OneShotLP, a training-free framework for video-based license plate detection and recognition, leveraging these advanced models.
• A Dataset and Model for Realistic License Plate Deblurring
  21 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 8 of 14 samples · 6 unverified · 14 pointer-only (licence)
  Vehicle license plate recognition is a crucial task in intelligent traffic management systems.
• Privacy-Preserving Autoencoder for Collaborative Object Detection
  29 Feb 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 7 samples · 1 unverified
  Privacy is a crucial concern in collaborative machine vision where a part of a Deep Neural network (DNN) model runs on the edge, and the rest is executed on the cloud.
• Bengali License Plate Recognition: Unveiling Clarity with CNN and GFP-GAN
  17 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  Automated License Plate Recognition(ALPR) is a system that automatically reads and extracts data from vehicle license plates using image processing and computer vision techniques.
• Adversarial sample generation and training using geometric masks for accurate and resilient license plate character recognition
  25 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  Reading dirty license plates accurately in moving vehicles is challenging for automatic license plate recognition systems.
• Character Time-series Matching For Robust License Plate Recognition
  21 Jul 2023 1 repository listed
  Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is becoming a popular study area and is applied in many fields such as transportation or smart city.
• Benchmarking Probabilistic Deep Learning Methods for License Plate Recognition
  2 Feb 2023 1 repository listed
  Such an uncertainty measure allows to detect false predictions, indicating an analyst when not to trust the result of the automated license plate recognition.
• IR-LPR: Large Scale of Iranian License Plate Recognition Dataset
  10 Sep 2022 1 repository listed
  Also, the largest Iranian dataset for recognizing the characters of a license plate has 5, 000 images.
• An advanced combination of semi-supervised Normalizing Flow & Yolo (YoloNF) to detect and recognize vehicle license plates
  21 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  Firstly, a two-stage network using YOLO and a normalization flow-based model for normalization to detect Licenses Plates (LP) and recognize the LP with numbers and Arabic characters.
• On the Cross-dataset Generalization in License Plate Recognition
  2 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems have shown remarkable performance on license plates (LPs) from multiple regions due to advances in deep learning and the increasing availability of datasets.
• End-to-end trainable network for degraded license plate detection via vehicle-plate relation mining
  27 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  Second, we propose to predict the quadrilateral bounding box in the local region by regressing the four corners of the license plate to robustly detect oblique license plates.
• GRAPHITE: Generating Automatic Physical Examples for Machine-Learning Attacks on Computer Vision Systems
  17 Feb 2020 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 4 samples · 4 unverified
  We address three key requirements for practical attacks for the real-world: 1) automatically constraining the size and shape of the attack so it can be applied with stickers, 2) transform-robustness, i.
• Vehicle-Rear: A New Dataset to Explore Feature Fusion for Vehicle Identification Using Convolutional Neural Networks
  13 Nov 2019 1 repository listed
  To explore our dataset we design a two-stream CNN that simultaneously uses two of the most distinctive and persistent features available: the vehicle's appearance and its license plate.
• Practical License Plate Recognition in Unconstrained Surveillance Systems with Adversarial Super-Resolution
  10 Oct 2019 1 repository listed
  Although most current license plate (LP) recognition applications have been significantly advanced, they are still limited to ideal environments where training data are carefully annotated with constrained scenes.
• An Efficient and Layout-Independent Automatic License Plate Recognition System Based on the YOLO detector
  4 Sep 2019 1 repository listed
  This paper presents an efficient and layout-independent Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system based on the state-of-the-art YOLO object detector that contains a unified approach for license plate (LP)…
• Accurate, Data-Efficient, Unconstrained Text Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks
  31 Dec 2018 1 repository listed
  Unconstrained text recognition is an important computer vision task, featuring a wide variety of different sub-tasks, each with its own set of challenges.
• License Plate Detection and Recognition in Unconstrained Scenarios
  1 Sep 2018 1 repository listed
  Despite the large number of both commercial and academic methods for Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR), most existing approaches are focused on a specific license plate (LP) region (e.

Syntology lines on 3 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.