Abstract: With the increasing number of vehicles, traffic management is facing an accumulation of ever-growing pressures, and license  plate recognition is needed in more and more occasions. To solve this problem, a real-time license plate recognition system based on Cortex-A8 embedded processor was proposed. The system is cored on Cortex-A8 processor, it captures video streaming via V4L2 interface, and runs the improved algorithm of license plate recognition based on OpenCV, and finally it transmits video streaming and license plate data via MJPG-streamer and Socket programming. The test of the whole system shows that the system is of strong stability, real-time and practical value.
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Key words:  , Cortex-A8； embedded； license plate recognition； video streaming； OpenCV