Dynamic traffic rule violation monitoring system using automatic number plate recognition with SMS feedback

Abstract

In the last couple of decades, number of vehicles has been increased drastically. Hence it has become very difficult to keep track of each and every vehicle for the purpose of traffic management and the law enforcement. Use of Automation number Plate Recognition is increasingly now days for maintaining traffic activities and as similar to the method of automatic electronic toll collection. In the past, from the survey many techniques and algorithms have been proposed for number plate detection and recognition, each technique having its own advantages and disadvantages. The fundamental step in number plate detection is localization of a number plate. The proposed Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) System is based on an image processing technology. The proposed system can be mainly used to monitor road traffic activities such as the identification of vehicle during traffic violations such as speed of vehicle and to detect at the street traffic signals lane violation. And thereby can be traced every vehicle for traffic rule violation and can provide the information to the concern authority to take further effective action, so we can have smooth traffic flow and also we can avoid accidents occurring on the traffic junction. This system can also be used to assist the authorities in identifying for any stolen vehicle. The proposed system first detects for any vehicle which violates traffic rule and then captures the vehicle image. From the captured image using image segmentation technique the vehicle number plate region will be extracted. And the technique used for the character recognition on number plate is Optical character recognition. The system is implemented and simulated using Matlab. Next we have feedback system i.e., the vehicle number which is extracted using the proposed ANPR algorithm from PC which is then given to GSM modem for further SMS feedback system to the user and concern authority. The system design also involves the design and development of GUI using Matlab, to ease the user in step by step recognizing the characters and numbers from the vehicle license plate and displaying on the desktop GUI screen.