@William, you asked on another thread what to use instead of roundabouts and intersections, how about over passes and under passes? I kinda like them thus far :-) On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Laban Mwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
Not exactly true... While having standard plates would really help, computing is dirt cheap nowadays. The advantages of standard plates are -> That once you segment an image, it's easy to tell which regions are plate candidates. Why? -> Aspect ratio i.e Length/Width is constant or from a limited set of constants -> Plates are very reflective to IR cameras making high contrast imaging possible
Since this is the hardest and most compute intesive step in the entire process, it makes for cheaper NPR systems. I think this was a valid point 5-10 years ago and not a blocker anymore.
These issues can be worked around (in fact, i've seen papers about plate recognition on non-standard plates in India and Pakistan; if memory serves me right).
Here's my silly attempt to locate plates on an image of a car from awhile back: http://andorian.blogspot.com/2013/02/automatic-number-plate-detection.html
https://plus.google.com/photos/107752603083247253582/albums/5841586869389054...
That's a brute force approach and it's accuracy sucks. Machine learning (Supervised learning like SVM) would probably boost accuracy to >90 % accuracy; Lot's of handwaving to get that number.
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/svm.html
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
I did read/hear somewhere (maybe on this list) that out numbers plates are not in a format which would allow automated number plates reading, which would be core to getting a fine attached to you if your car does break those traffic rules.
In the UK they take pics of the driver AND the number plate at the time of committing the crime.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Michael Bullut <main@kipsang.com> wrote:
I prefer we do away with roundabouts & traffic police as the former is
the
cause of most jams while the latter only come out on the roads when they're broke by preying on motorists.
On 26 July 2013 15:03, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:
Such wastage of resources, human resources while thugs are harassing us all over.
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On 26 July 2013 15:01, Martin Akolo Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
If you ask me, the three items bellow are mutually exclusive:
1) Traffic lights, 2) Traffic police, 3) Roundabouts.
Traffic cameras can monitor and report suspicious activity on the road quite well.
Martin.
On Jul 26, 2013 2:48 PM, "Dennis Kioko" <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
In Rwanda there are police officers at traffic lights. Looking if you are breaking traffic rules.
On Friday, 26 July 2013, Brian Ngure wrote: > > Because they have to "look" busy even they know diddly squat. > > On Jul 26, 2013 2:25 PM, "Peter Muchemi" <pmuchemi@gmail.com>
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