Segmentation- and Annotation-Free License Plate Recognition With Deep Localization and Failure Identification.

Automated license plate recognition (ALPR) is essential in several roadway imaging applications. For ALPR systems deployed in the United States, variation between jurisdictions on character width, spacing, and the existence of noise sources (e.g., heavy shadows, non-uniform illumination, various optical geometries, poor contrast, and so on) present in LP images makes it challenging for the recogni...