BLPnet: A new DNN model and Bengali OCR engine for Automatic License Plate Recognition
Md. Saif Hassan Onim, Hussain Nyeem, Koushik Roy, Mahmudul Hasan,, Abtahi Ishmam, Md. Akiful Hoque Akif, Tareque Bashar Ovi

TL;DR
This paper introduces BLPnet, a novel deep neural network for Bengali license plate recognition, achieving high accuracy and real-time performance, addressing a gap in ALPR systems for Bengali language regions.
Contribution
The paper presents a new end-to-end DNN model, BLPnet, with a cascaded architecture and a Bengali OCR engine, optimized for accuracy and speed in Bengali license plate recognition.
Findings
Achieves 95% character recognition accuracy.
Detects vehicles at 17 fps in real-time footage.
Outperforms YOLO-based and Tesseract models in accuracy and speed.
Abstract
The development of the Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system has received much attention for the English license plate. However, despite being the sixth largest population around the world, no significant progress can be tracked in the Bengali language countries or states for the ALPR system addressing their more alarming traffic management with inadequate road-safety measures. This paper reports a computationally efficient and reasonably accurate Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system for Bengali characters with a new end-to-end DNN model that we call Bengali License Plate Network(BLPnet). The cascaded architecture for detecting vehicle regions prior to vehicle license plate (VLP) in the model is proposed to eliminate false positives resulting in higher detection accuracy of VLP. Besides, a lower set of trainable parameters is considered for reducing the…
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Taxonomy
TopicsVehicle License Plate Recognition · Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques · Advanced Neural Network Applications
