Day 328 of 1000

Today, the kids need to spend most of the day at the Hill Library at NCSU again, so I will have a good block of time to start figuring out how to find the license plate on the back of the car.  I spent some time looking at images of cars and reading about approaches to find the plates.  Like all general machine vision problems, it is harder than it looks.  Sometimes there are no or very few edges that define the outer boundaries of the plate, so it is not generally a good idea to look only for the shape of the plate.  They only thing you can really depend on is that the characters on the plate are of high contrast.  I am going to look for some images that will get me started.  I will probably start with three or four images to get a concept going, then expand my efforts to increasing data sets.  I think I probably should take my camera with me to take some pictures today.  Maybe I will post a few.