Implementing VLPR systems based on TMS320DM642

作     者：ZHU Le-qing ZHANG San-yuan YE Xiu-zi 

作者机构：School of Computer Science and Technology Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science A(Applied Physics & Engineering)》 (浙江大学学报（英文版）A辑（应用物理与工程）)

年 卷 期：2007年第8卷第12期

页      面：2005-2016页

核心收录：

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 08[工学] 080203[工学-机械设计及理论] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60473106) the Hi-Tech Research and Development Program (863) of China (Nos. 2007AA01Z311 and 2007AA04ZA5) 

主　　题：许可证 图象识别 图象加工 DM642技术 

摘      要：This paper gives a practical schema for using DSP boards to construct Vehicle License Plate Recognition (VLPR) modules that could be embedded in any Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Using DSP can avoid the heavy investment in dedicated VLPR system and improve the computational power compared to PC software environment. Low cost, high computational power, and high flexibility of DSP provide the License Plate Recognition System (LPRS) an excellent cost-effective solution to execute the major part of the recognition tasks. This paper describes a successful implementation of VLPR system based on Texas Instruments (TI) s TMS320DM642. The DSP board acquires video (which could be output to a monitor for surveillance) from a camera, captures images from the video, locates and recognizes the license plates in images, and then sends the recognized results and related images after compression to a host PC through the network. Finally, the overall software is optimized according to the features of DM642 chip. Experiments showed that the DSP VLPR system performs well on the local license plates, and that the processing speed and accuracy can meet the requirement of practical applications.