VEHICLE NUMBER PLATE CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING OPENCV AND CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK (CNN)

This research entitled “Vehicle License Plate Character Recognition Using OpenCV and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)” aims to develop an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system by integrating OpenCV and CNN. The main focus is the application of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) v8 method to detect objects and text in real-time, and the use of EasyOCR to recognize characters. This system is designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of vehicle license plate recognition. The results of the study showed an average accuracy level of Precision of 40.5%, Recall 100%, and Accuracy 42.16%. These results show that although the model successfully detects all vehicle license plates (with 100% recall), low precision indicates that there are quite a lot of false positives or errors in detection which results in a decrease in the overall accuracy rate. Keyword- Automatic Number Plate Recognition, Convolutional Neural Network, Deep Learning, OpenCV, YOLO