System for Plate Evaluation, Assessment, and Recognition [SPEAR]
Introduction
License Plate Recognition system developed as an output of our undergraduate thesis written in Python.
It features reading the alphanumeric code from a license plate and performing a database lookup for evaluating possible violations related to that license plate.
The database lookup currently checks for the following:
- Unregistered plates
- Expired plates
- Wanted/Reported plates
- Stolen plates
Requirements
SPEAR is written in Python version 2.7.8. MySQL is needed for Database Lookup.
The following Python libraries are required:
- SimpleCV
- openCV
- matplotlib.pyplot
- numpy
- texttable
- termcolor
- pymysql