Title
License Plate Detection via Information Maximization
Abstract
License plate (LP) detection in the wild remains challenging due to the diversity of environmental conditions. Nevertheless, prior solutions have focused on controlled environments, such as when LP images frequently emerge as from an approximately frontal viewpoint and without scene text which might be mistaken for an LP. However, even for state-of-the-art object detectors, their detection performance is not satisfactory for real-world environments, suffering from various types of degradation. To solve these problems, we propose a novel end-to-end framework for robust LP detection, designed for such challenging settings. Our contribution is threefold: (1) A novel information-theoretic learning that takes advantage of a shared encoder, an LP detector and a scene text detector (excluding LP) simultaneously; (2) Localization refinement for generalizing the bounding box regression network to complement ambiguous detection results; (3) a large-scale, comprehensive dataset, LPST-110K, representing real-world unconstrained scenes including scene text annotations. Computational tests show that the proposed model outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on a variety of challenging datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TITS.2021.3135015
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
License plate detection,deep learning,information theory,multi-task learning,intelligent traffic surveillance
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1524-9050
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
32
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
y lee100.34
j jeon200.34
y ko300.68
Moongu Jeon445672.81
W. Pedrycz5139661005.85