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Registration Number Recognition of Civil Aviation Aircraft

  

  1. 1. College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China;

     2. State Key laboratory of Fundamental Science on Synthetic Vision, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
  • Received:2015-01-12 Online:2015-04-27 Published:2015-04-29

Abstract:

In order to improve the automation level of airport, a novel algorithm is proposed for civil aviation aircraft registration number recognition. For the color
image of runway taken by cameras mounted in the aircraft, firstly the image of aircraft is extracted by Canny operation and contours detection, and then the color image is
converted into gray image for computer processing. Secondly, use the probabilistic Hough transform and Stroke Width Transform to position registration number. Finally, segment
registration number by the method of threshold and apply hole-based template matching method to recognize the characters of the registration number. Experimental results show
that the algorithm is feasible, robust and applicable.

Key words:  aircraft registration number, text positioning, image segmentation, character recognition