Object detection is a very
sophisticated technology to work on nowadays. In this study, we
specifically focused on solving the problem of license plate detection
and license plate class identification for authentication. For both, we
used the You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm to solve these problems.
For the license plate detection model here we used YOLO-v4 and for the
number plate, the class identification model used YOLO-v5. The Dataset
used in license plate detection is Google’s Open Image Dataset to get
YOLO formatted labeled images. And for the Automatic Number Plate
Authentication (ANPA) model, we have created a dataset by labeling the
images. This concatenation approach is used to solve the problem, first
detecting the license plate and extracting the license plate region from
the image and then passing this image to the number plate class
detection model to extract the information from the license plate image.
The concatenation method shows a very good output for both of the
models. For the license plate detection model, the mean average
precision is 88.57% and our YOLO-v5 model has an accuracy around (a mean
average precision) of 95.41%.