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License plate detection is the process of automatically detecting and recognizing license plates/license plates in images or video streams using computer vision techniques.
This task is useful in many applications, such as traffic management, automatic toll collection, and parking control.
License plate detection is basically divided into two tasks:
- License Plate Detection: This refers to the process of identifying the location of a license plate in an image or video frame. This involves using machine learning algorithms, such as the Haar cascade, to identify specific features of the license plate and distinguish it from other objects in the image.
- License Plate Recognition: Once the location of the license plate is detected, it can be cropped and further processed to identify the characters on the license plate using Optical Character Recognition (OCR): This is called License Plate Recognition.
In this tutorial