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A simple car plate zooming system

A simple car plate zooming system / Ong Lien Pin
Teknik pengezuman digital yang simpel menggunakan algoritma linear menyebabkan berlakunya artifak tatkala proses mengezum. Kehadiran artifak menyebabkan kehilangan maklumat imej dan hasil zum kurang menarik untuk visual manusia. Salah satu implikasi yang disebabkan oleh hasil zum berkualiti rendah dalam aplikasi sebenar ialah kadar pengecaman yang rendah dalam sistem pengecaman plat kereta. Punca utama artifak adalah teknik interpolasi mudah menganggap kesinambungan intensiti dalam imej. Pada hakikatnya, terdapat bahagian pinggir objek dengan perubahan intensiti yang mendadak dalam imej. Ini adalah punca mengapa artifak menjadi lebih nyata pada kawasan pinggir. Dalam usaha menghasilkan hasil zum yang kurang artifak, kawasan pinggir dan bukan pinggir memerlukan cara interpolasi yang berbeza mengikut ciri-ciri perbezaan kesinambungan intensiti. Dalam kajian ini, satu teknik pengezuman adaptif dikaji dan dikenalpasti sebelum diaplikasikan dalam sistem pengezuman plat kereta yang simpel. Dalam teknik pengezuman adaptif pilihan yang dipanggil pengezuman berdasarkan arah pinggir dan model lerengan, pertama sekali pinggir objek dalam imej input dikesan oleh algoritma pengesanan pinggir. Selepas itu, kawasan bukan pinggir diinterpolasikan oleh interpolasi bilinear manakala kawasan pinggir diinterpolasikan berdasarkan parameter lerengan piksel pinggir. Kelebaran pinggir dalam hasil zum dikekalkan sama dengan imej input supaya hasil zum mempunyai kejelasan yang baik. Ini adalah keunikan teknik pengezuman adaptif yang dikaji. Apabila teknik pengezuman adaptif diaplikasikan dalam sistem pengezuman plat kereta yang simpel, teknik ini terbukti dapat menghasilkan hasil zum imej plat kereta tanpa artifak. Di samping itu, hasil zum mengandungi pinggir yang berterusan dan jelas. Sistem pengezuman plat kereta yang dibina mempunyai sistem komunikasi pengguna grafik (GUI) dan menyediakan fungsi-fungsi asas termasuk menangkap, membuka, memangkas, zum dan menyimpan imej. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Simple digital zooming techniques with linear algorithm introduce artefacts in the zooming results. The presence of artefacts incurs loss of image information and makes the zooming result less appealing for human visualization. One of the implications of low quality zooming in real applications is low recognition rate in a car plate recognition system. The root cause of the artefacts is that simple interpolation techniques presume the continuity of the intensity in an image. In fact, edges of objects with abrupt intensity changes exist in images. It is the reason why artefacts are more distinct at edges region. In order to produce zooming results with lesser artefacts, edge and non-edge regions should be interpolated in different ways due to their different features of intensity continuity. In this thesis, a significant adaptive zooming technique is investigated and identified before it is implemented in a simple car plate zooming system. In the chosen adaptive zooming technique called edge directed interpolation that is based on ramp-edge model, firstly the edges of the input image are located by an edge detection algorithm. After that, the non-edge regions are interpolated by bilinear interpolation while edge regions are interpolated based on the ramp parameters of the edge pixels. The width of the edges in the zooming result is kept similar to the input image so that the zooming result can have good sharpness. This is the uniqueness of the adaptive zooming technique. When the adaptive zooming technique is applied in a simple car plate zooming system, it is proven to be able to produce artefact-free zooming results of car plate images. In addition, the zooming result contains continuous and well-defined edges. The developed car plate zooming system has graphical user interface (GUI) and provides basic functions which include capturing, opening, cropping, zooming and saving of the images.
Contributor(s):
Ong Lien Pin - Author
Primary Item Type:
Final Year Project
Identifiers:
Accession Number : 875004722
Language:
English
Subject Keywords:
digital; zooming; visualization
First presented to the public:
6/1/2012
Original Publication Date:
7/2/2020
Previously Published By:
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Place Of Publication:
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Citation:
Extents:
Number of Pages - 71
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Date Deposited
2020-07-02 15:16:49.455
Submitter:
Mohd Jasnizam Mohd Salleh

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