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  • Vishnu Dev and Salim Ahmed
  • April 28, 2021

Vision AI powered Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) for Japan

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), also called Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR), refers to an accurate image processing system used for detecting and reading vehicle number plates. It uses an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) component on images of number plates that are captured at high speed, to detect individual characters on the number plate and transforms them into digital data. 

ANPR is, therefore, the underlying technology used to detect a vehicle license / number plate that, in turn, supplies this information to the next stage of computer processing through which the captured information can be interpreted, stored or matched to create an ANPR based application.

ANPR is being used by law enforcement agencies across countries like the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Denmark, Japan and others for automatic toll collection, traffic law enforcement, parking lot access control, and road traffic monitoring, journey time analysis, bus lane enforcement among others. 

Japan has been fast in deploying ANPR systems in patrol cars, helicopters and fixed in strategically important areas. In Japan, fixed ANPR systems are expected to reach a market size of US$44.4 Billion by the year 2025*.  

In this blog, we outline how a Japanese license plate is detected and the characters in the license plate recognized. The license plate detection is based on semantic segmentation with a Resnet-type model and character recognition is based on a classifier network. Japanese license plates have certain special features which have to be studied as a first step.

Special Features of Japanese License plates

The Japanese license plate consists of 4 main sub portions . The following figure depicts each of the sub regions.

 

  Fig 1. A Japanese License plate format

Also different color license plates indicate the engine capacity of the vehicle . The following figure describes different colors and corresponding engine capacity.

 

Fig.2 Color specifications of a Japanese License Plate

The top line contains the name of the issuing office and a vehicle class code. The bottom line contains a hiragana character and a four-digit serial number divided into two groups of two digits separated by a hyphen. Any leading zeros are replaced by centered dots.

Dataset preparation and Labeling

The dataset is created using images from a variety of sources. The following site provides a representative set. [Link]

The training results yield maximum accuracy only if the labels of the region of interest are correct. To ensure this, tight labeling is required. The collected images are then labeled using the LabelMe application. These images and corresponding xml files are used for training purposes.

License Plate Detection and Classification

 


Fig.3 Vehicle Detection Pipeline

We describe the above pipeline with respect to a sample input image:

YOLO cropping

 


Fig.4 Raw input image

The first step in ANPR is to detect and isolate the vehicle from the background, from the raw input images. Here we have used the Tiny YOLO (You Only Look Once) v3 model for the purpose of object detection. Reasoning behind choosing YOLO is due to it’s fast, accurate and multi-scale predictions. An important criteria here is that it is a real-time object detection system. The objects we are interested in range from cars, buses to trucks. Detections such as roads, hills, people and the like are discarded as they aren’t of interest in our use case. Using Tiny YOLO, we extract the vehicle crop.

 


Fig.5 Vehicle crop generated using YOLO

License Plate Detection module

The vehicle crop is passed onto a semantic segmentation model, which in turn extracts the number plate region. These number plate bounding regions can be stored in suitable format such as ((x1, y1), (x2, y2)) or (x, y, w, h) in a json file.

 


Fig.6 License Plate crop

 

License Plate Crops

Semantic segmentation also generates relevant masks for area, color, digit and purpose. This semantic segmentation model is trained on the Japanese License Plate dataset so as to generate these masks. Similar to the previous step, here too the masks are stored in a suitable format in a json file. 

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Fig.7 Masks for area, color, digit and purpose

 

OCR prediction

The next stage requires us to apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) onto these mask areas. This stage returns the predictions of features of interest on the specific number plate. These predictions are based on the following classes:

Color

[‘black’, ‘white’, ‘green’, ‘yellow’]

Area

[‘shizuoka’, ‘fukuoka’, ‘fukushima’, ‘gifu’, ‘gunma’, ‘hiroshima’, ‘kanazawa’, ‘kitami’, ‘kochi’, ‘nilgata’, ‘obihiro’, ‘oita’, ‘tokushima’, ‘toyama’, ‘utsunomia’, ‘okayama’, ‘sappora’, ‘sendai’, ‘numazu’, ‘chiba’, ‘yamanashi’, ‘tama’, ‘osaka’, ‘yokohama’, ‘maebashi’, ‘nerima’, ‘wakayama’, ‘kobe’, ‘miyazaki’, ‘saitama’, ‘kumagaya’, ‘shinagawa’, ‘nara’, ‘adachi’, ‘kyoto’, ‘naniwa’, ‘himeji’, ‘kawasaki’]

Purpose

[’13’, ‘2’, ’20’, ‘7’, ‘1’, ’17’, ’10’, ’25’, ’12’, ’18’, ’21’, ‘5’, ‘4’, ’24’, ’23’, ’16’, ’15’, ’22’, ’19’, ‘3’, ‘8’, ‘9’, ’14’, ‘6’, ’11’, ’26’, ’27’, ’28’]

Digit

[‘2’, ‘7’, ’00’, ‘1’, ’90’, ‘0’, ‘5’, ‘4’, ‘3’, ‘8’, ‘9’, ‘6’, ’13’, ’18’, ’22’, ’23’, ’33’, ‘100’]

Below are the predictions generated by our pipeline for the sample test image:

 


Fig.8 Predicted console result

 


Fig.9 Annotated result number plate

Conclusion

This article introduces our deep-learning based ANPR pipeline that is capable of automatically detecting vehicles, cropping out their license plates and recognizing Japanese characters and all other relevant fields. The production version of our ANPR software can integrate with cost-effective IP or web cameras and perform real-time automatic plate reading using cost effective compute systems – thus allowing their deployment in a host of practical applications.  

For more use cases of our Vision AI powered software, read our blogs on Automatic Container Code Detection, Face Mask and Attire detection and Automated Tyre Defect Detection. 

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      Pradeep heads the Software Engineering division, with a charter to build and grow a world-beating delivery team. He is responsible for all the software functions, which includes embedded & automotive software, multimedia, and AI & Digital services

      At Ignitarium, he was previously part of the sales and marketing team with a special focus on generating a sales pipeline for Vision Intelligence products and services, working with worldwide field sales & partner ecosystems in the U.S  Europe, and APAC.

      Prior to joining Ignitarium in 2017, Pradeep was Senior Solutions Architect at Open-Silicon, an ASIC design house. At Open-Silicon, where he spent a good five years, Pradeep was responsible for Front-end, FPGA, and embedded SW business development, marketing & technical sales and also drove the IoT R&D roadmap. Pradeep started his professional career in 2000 at Sasken, where he worked for 11 years, primarily as an embedded multimedia expert, and then went on to lead the Multimedia software IP team.

      Pradeep is a graduate in Electronics & Communication from RVCE, Bangalore.

       

      SUJEET SREENIVASAN Vice President – Embedded

      SUJEET SREENIVASAN

      Senior Vice President – Automotive Technology

       

      Sujeet is responsible for driving innovation in Automotive software, identifying Automotive technology trends and advancements, evaluating their potential impact, and development of solutions to meet the needs of our Automotive customers.

      At Ignitarium, he was previously responsible for the growth and P&L of the Embedded Business unit focusing on Multimedia, Automotive, and Platform software.

      Prior to joining Ignitarium in 2016, Sujeet has had a career spanning more than 16 years at Wipro. During this stint, he has played diverse roles from Solution Architect to Presales Lead covering various domains. His technical expertise lies in the areas of Telecom, Embedded Systems, Wireless, Networking, SoC modeling, and Automotive. He has been honored as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Wipro and has multiple patents granted in the areas of Networking and IoT Security.

      Sujeet holds a degree in Computer Science from Government Engineering College, Thrissur.

       

      RAJIN RAVIMONY Distinguished Engineer

      RAJIN RAVIMONY

      Distinguished Engineer

       

      At Ignitarium, Rajin plays the role of Distinguished Engineer for complex SoCs and systems. He's an expert in ARM-based designs having architected more than a dozen SoCs and played hands-on design roles in several tens more. His core areas of specialization include security and functional safety architecture (IEC61508 and ISO26262) of automotive systems, RTL implementation of math intensive signal processing blocks as well as design of video processing and related multimedia blocks.

       

      Prior to Ignitarium, Rajin worked at Wipro Technologies for 14 years where he held roles of architect and consultant for several VLSI designs in the automotive and consumer domains.

       

      Rajin holds an MS in Micro-electronics from BITS Pilani.

       

      SIBY ABRAHAM Executive Vice President, Strategy

      SIBY ABRAHAM

      Executive Vice President, Strategy

       

      As EVP, of Strategy at Ignitarium, Siby anchors multiple functions spanning investor community relations, business growth, technology initiatives as well and operational excellence.

       

      Siby has over 31 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. In his last role at Wipro Technologies, he headed the Semiconductor Industry Practice Group where he was responsible for business growth and engineering delivery for all of Wipro’s semiconductor customers. Prior to that, he held a vast array of crucial roles at Wipro including Chief Technologist & Vice President, CTO Office, Global Delivery Head for Product Engineering Services, Business Head of Semiconductor & Consumer Electronics, and Head of Unified Competency Framework. He was instrumental in growing Wipro’s semiconductor business to over $100 million within 5 years and turning around its Consumer Electronics business in less than 2 years. In addition, he was the Engineering Manager for Enthink Inc., a semiconductor IP-focused subsidiary of Wipro. Prior to that, Siby was the Technical Lead for several of the most prestigious system engineering projects executed by Wipro R&D.

       

      Siby has held a host of deeply impactful positions, which included representing Wipro in various World Economic Forum working groups on Industrial IOT and as a member of IEEE’s IOT Steering Committee.

       

      He completed his MTech. in Electrical Engineering (Information and Control) from IIT, Kanpur and his BTech. from NIT, Calicut

       

      SUDIP NANDY

      Board Member

       

      An accomplished leader with over 40 years of experience, Sudip has helped build and grow companies in India, the US and the UK.

      He has held the post of Independent Director and Board Member for several organizations like Redington Limited, Excelra, Artison Agrotech, GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Liquid Hub Inc. and ResultsCX.

      Most recently, Sudip was a Senior Advisor at ChrysCapital, a private equity firm where he has also been the Managing Director and Operating Partner for IT for the past 5 years. During his tenure, he has been Executive Chairman of California-headquartered Infogain Corporation and the non-Exec Chair on the board of a pioneering electric-2-wheeler company Ampere Vehicles, which is now a brand of Greaves Cotton Ltd.

      Earlier on in his career, Sudip has been the CEO and then Chairman India for Aricent. Prior to that, he had spent 25+ years in Wipro where he has been the Head of US business, Engineering R&D Services, and later the Head of EU Operations.

      Sudip is an active investor in several interesting startups in India and overseas, which mostly use technology for the social good, encompassing hyperlocal, healthcare, rural development, farmer support and e2W ecosystem. He also spends time as a coach and mentor for several CEOs in this role.

       

      SUJEETH JOSEPH Chief Product Officer

      SUJEETH JOSEPH

      Chief Technology Officer

       

      As CTO, Sujeeth is responsible for defining the technology roadmap, driving IP & solution development, and transitioning these technology components into practically deployable product engineering use cases.

       

      With a career spanning over 30+ years, Sujeeth Joseph is a semiconductor industry veteran in the SoC, System and Product architecture space. At SanDisk India, he was Director of Architecture for the USD $2B Removable Products Group. Simultaneously, he also headed the SanDisk India Patenting function, the Retail Competitive Analysis Group and drove academic research programs with premier Indian academic Institutes. Prior to SanDisk, he was Chief Architect of the Semiconductor & Systems BU (SnS) of Wipro Technologies. Over a 19-year career at Wipro, he has played hands-on and leadership roles across all phases of the ASIC and System design flow.

       

      He graduated in Electronics Engineering from Bombay University in 1991.

       

      SUJITH MATHEW IYPE Co-founder & CTO

      SUJITH MATHEW IYPE

      Co-founder & COO

       

      As Ignitarium's Co-founder and COO, Sujith is responsible for driving the operational efficiency and streamlining process across the organization. He is also responsible for the growth and P&L of the Semiconductor Business Unit.

       

      Apart from establishing a compelling story in VLSI, Sujith was responsible for Ignitarium's foray into nascent technology areas like AI, ML, Computer Vision, and IoT, nurturing them in our R&D Lab - "The Crucible".

       

      Prior to founding Ignitarium, Sujith played the role of a VLSI architect at Wipro Technologies for 13 years. In true hands-on mode, he has built ASICs and FPGAs for the Multimedia, Telecommunication, and Healthcare domains and has provided technical leadership for many flagship projects executed by Wipro.

       

      Sujith graduated from NIT - Calicut in the year 2000 in Electronics and Communications Engineering and thereafter he has successfully completed a one-year executive program in Business Management from IIM Calcutta.

       

      RAMESH SHANMUGHAM Co-founder & COO

      RAMESH SHANMUGHAM

      Co-founder & CRO

      As Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Ignitarium, Ramesh has been responsible for global business and marketing as well as building trusted customer relationships upholding the company's core values.

      Ramesh has over 25 years of experience in the Semiconductor Industry covering all aspects of IC design. Prior to Ignitarium, Ramesh was a key member of the senior management team of the semiconductor division at Wipro Technologies. Ramesh has played key roles in Semiconductor Delivery and Pre-sales at a global level.

      Ramesh graduated in Electronics Engineering from Model Engineering College, Cochin, and has a Postgraduate degree in Microelectronics from BITS Pilani.