Predicted Anchor Region Proposal with Balanced Feature Pyramid for License Plate Detection in Traffic Scene Images

Hoanh Nguyen

Complexity, 2020, vol. 2020, 1-11

Abstract:

License plate detection is a key problem in intelligent transportation systems. Recently, many deep learning-based networks have been proposed and achieved incredible success in general object detection, such as faster R-CNN, SSD, and R-FCN. However, directly applying these deep general object detection networks on license plate detection without modifying may not achieve good enough performance. This paper proposes a novel deep learning-based framework for license plate detection in traffic scene images based on predicted anchor region proposal and balanced feature pyramid. In the proposed framework, ResNet-34 architecture is first adopted for generating the base convolution feature maps. A balanced feature pyramid generation module is then used to generate balanced feature pyramid, of which each feature level obtains equal information from other feature levels. Furthermore, this paper designs a multiscale region proposal network with a novel predicted location anchor scheme to generate high-quality proposals. Finally, a detection network which includes a region of interest pooling layer and fully connected layers is adopted to further classify and regress the coordinates of detected license plates. Experimental results on public datasets show that the proposed approach achieves better detection performance compared with other state-of-the-art methods on license plate detection.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1155/2020/5137056

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