An advanced combination of semi-supervised Normalizing Flow & Yolo (YoloNF) to detect and recognize vehicle license plates

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10777v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 22:22:57 GMT
• Title: An advanced combination of semi-supervised Normalizing Flow & Yolo (YoloNF) to detect and recognize vehicle license plates
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a robust and efficient ALPR system based on the state-of-the-art YOLO object detector and Normalizing flows. The model uses two new strategies. 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.
• Score: 1.5208105446192792
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Fully Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) has been a frequent research topic due to several practical applications. However, many of the current solutions are still not robust enough in real situations, commonly depending on many constraints. This paper presents a robust and efficient ALPR system based on the state-of-the-art YOLO object detector and Normalizing flows. The model uses two new strategies. 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. Secondly, Multi-scale image transformations are implemented to provide a solution to the problem of the YOLO cropped LP detection including significant background noise. Furthermore, extensive experiments are led on a new dataset with realistic scenarios, we introduce a larger public annotated dataset collected from Moroccan plates. We demonstrate that our proposed model can learn on a small number of samples free of single or multiple characters. The dataset will also be made publicly available to encourage further studies and research on plate detection and recognition.

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