Unauthorized access identification in restricted areas

Guido Tascini; Antonella Carbonaro; Primo Zingaretti

doi:10.1117/12.317481

30 July 1998 Unauthorized access identification in restricted areas

Guido Tascini, Antonella Carbonaro, Primo Zingaretti

Proceedings Volume 3364, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 1998; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317481
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1998, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The paper describes a system to control vehicle accesses in restricted areas. The signalling of vehicles whose license- plates do not belong to a specific database is the aim of the system. The adaptation to different environmental conditions, and the identification of a vehicle by processing the license- plate pattern as a whole, without considering the recognition of the characters, are its two main characteristics. The system implements a recognition engine constituted by two modules. First, the system analyzes the video-recorded sequences to select a frame in which the license-plate satisfies pre-defined constraints, and extracts the license- plate template on which the matching with the model templates stored in the database will be performed. Second, vehicle identification is performed by a genetic template matching that, without requiring a high computational complexity, provides adaptation to normal environmental variations by exploiting learning capabilities. The implemented system, forced to distinguish only between authorized and unauthorized vehicles according to a threshold in the genetic fitness function, shows robust performance on Italian cars, but it is adaptable to different license-plate models, and is independent from outdoor conditions.

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Guido Tascini, Antonella Carbonaro, and Primo Zingaretti "Unauthorized access identification in restricted areas", Proc. SPIE 3364, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 1998, (30 July 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317481

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