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Embedded license plate recognition system developed for developing countries

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Researchers have developed an embedded real-time license plate recognition system tailored for developing countries, addressing complex traffic scenes and diverse vehicle types. The system utilizes lightweight convolutional neural networks for both license plate detection and character recognition, achieving 93.6% mAP and 87.88% accuracy on the new SL-LPR dataset. To ensure efficiency on embedded platforms, the models incorporate low-bitwidth quantization via Brevitas and FPGA acceleration through the FINN framework, enabling operation at 11.5 FPS on a Xilinx Kria KV260. AI

IMPACT This research demonstrates efficient AI model deployment on embedded systems for real-world applications like traffic management.

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Embedded license plate recognition system developed for developing countries

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Anuki Pasqual, Dulan Lokugeegana, Manimohan Thiriloganathan, Nuthya Rathnayake, Kithsiri Samarasinghe, Udaya S. K. P. Miriya Thanthrige ·

    An Embedded Real-Time License Plate Recognition System for Complex Traffic Scenes

    arXiv:2606.27772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vehicle license plate recognition is an integral component of intelligent transportation systems. In this work, we present an embedded real-time license plate recognition system customized for developing countries. We address the ch…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Udaya S. K. P. Miriya Thanthrige ·

    An Embedded Real-Time License Plate Recognition System for Complex Traffic Scenes

    Vehicle license plate recognition is an integral component of intelligent transportation systems. In this work, we present an embedded real-time license plate recognition system customized for developing countries. We address the challenge of handling complex, unstructured traffi…

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