Session LPR License Plate Recognition 1 Incorporate LPR

Session LPR License Plate Recognition 1 Incorporate LPR technology into existing Surveillance network Presented by Fei-Fei Peng

Session LPR License Plate Recognition WHY LPR? 2

Session LPR WHY LPR ? If your business is involved with surveillance, counter-terrorism, access control and congestion charging markets… If your customer base are police forces, local authorities, universities, gated communities and government bodies. Growth potential is significant due to rise in Security and Traffic initiatives. (In the US alone, a vehicle is stolen once every 26 seconds. ) 3

Session LPR WHY LPR? ๏ Government & police ๏ Road Monitoring ๏ Stolen car search ๏ Speed violation process ๏ Traffic flow management ๏ Law Enforcement ๏ Etc…. 4

Session LPR WHY LPR ? 5 If your business is involved with surveillance, safety prevention, access control and marketing consultancy markets… If your customer base are private enterprise, recreational & entertainment facility and car related business. . Growth potential is significant due to rise in Security and Management efficiency initiatives.

Session LPR WHY LPR? ๏ Company parking lot ๏ Entrance control, Time record ๏ Fleet Management, Dump, Car Rental ๏ Entrance control, Time record, etc. ๏ Parking Lot/ Show ground/ Shopping Mall ๏ In/out control, Ticketing, Traffic count, Visitor analysis ๏ Petrol station, Drive-In restaurant ๏ Visitor count, avoid theft 6

Session LPR License Plate Recognition WHAT is LPR? 7

Session LPR WHAT is LPR? It is a kind of OCR (optical character recognition) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the method used by a computer to convert scanned in pages of text into electronic text documents. (definition at web) "License Plate Recognition is the method used by a computer to convert digital images of vehicle license plates into electronic text. " 8

Session LPR WHAT is LPR? ANN (artificial neural network) The artificial neural network consists of many no-linear processing units (neuron) and numerous links between those units. Parallel and separate processing method enables this network to deal with multitudinous data simultaneously. 9

Session LPR WHAT is LPR? Recognition Process ๏ Locate/Identify the locate of the license plate in the image ๏ Extract the image/extract the relevant area ๏ Apply geometric distortion compensation if necessary ๏ Isolate the individual character ๏ Recognize/Read 2 G 5367 10

Session LPR WHAT is LPR? Recognition Engine 11

Session LPR License Plate Recognition HOW to install LPR? Learn from other people’s mistake! 12

Session LPR HOW to install LPR? Some typical failed images for LPR recognition 13

Session LPR HOW to install LPR? Some typical failed images for LPR recognition 14

Session LPR Original image HOW to install LPR? Captured by normal color camera 15 Captured by IR Camera

Session LPR HOW to install LPR? Key to success in license plate capture: The quality of the license plate image! 16

Session LPR HOW to install LPR? ๏ ๏ ๏ 17 Used dedicated cameras Properly Position the Camera The importance of Infrared 24 h/7 D The suitable capture card One camera, One Lane

Session LPR HOW to install LPR? Used Dedicated Cameras Is it possible to let the camera to capture license plates and at the same time provide surveillance of the surrounding area? NO! • the camera cannot deliver high-resolution images of the license plates • The camera cannot cope with changing environmental conditions over time Solution: DUAL CAMERA! 18

Session LPR HOW to install LPR? Properly Position the Camera 19 ¤ Ideally : At vehicle “bottlenecks” or by control points such as barriers ¤ Ideally: the license plate should be viewed from NOT more than 35 degrees ¤ Ideally: the width of the license plate should be 1/5 to 1/3 of the width of the image (min. 120 pixel)

Session LPR HOW to install LPR? The importance of Infrared How to solve the serious problems caused by glare on the license plates from factors such as headlights, sunlight and reflections from roads? GOOD IR lighting – day and night! Because all visible light is cut-filtered and only IR light is used by camera! 20

Session LPR HOW to install LPR? The suitable capture card 21 TWO ways to recognize: ¤ With software motion detection (30 frames/sec) The LPR system monitors vehicle passing through the camera and illuminator zone constantly and analyze it autonomously ¤ By I/O activation (15 frames/sec) I/O devices: magnetic loop detector, overhead laser scanner, or infrared sensor, which output their command through RS 232/485

Session LPR HOW to install LPR? 22 The suitable capture card GV-250 GV-600 GV-650 GV-800 GV-1120 GV-1240 GV-1480 Frame Rate 20/15 fps 30/25 fps 60/50 fps 120/100 fps 240/200 fps 480/400 fps Ports X 4 4 4 X 8 16 Motion detection X Max. 1 Lane Max. 2 Lanes Max. 4 Lanes X Max. 4 Lanes Max. 1 Lane Ports X 4 4 4, 8 8 8, 16 16 I/O activation Not suggest Max. 2 Lanes Max. 4 Lanes Max. 8 Lanes

Session LPR License Plate Recognition WHY Geo. Vision LPR? ¤Complete product series ¤ Easy to integrate with another systems ¤ Complete functions in one ¤ High Accuracy ¤ Acceptable Cost ¤ Multi-language support ¤ Widely deployed 23

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Complete product series ¤ GV LPR PC based solutions ¤ GV LPR Camera & Illuminator ¤ GV LPR Embedded solution ¤ GV LPR Center management system 24

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR Complete Product series PC based solutions + + ¤ up to 8 lanes in one system ¤ user friendly UI ¤ less storage needed (1, 000 log data in 80 G HD) ¤ Speedy recognition time, less than 0. 2 sec/license plate ¤ high accuracy rate up to 99% ¤ Easy integration of export recognition result through RS 232, File or direct access to the database, with optional image output. ¤Windows based ¤Pre-installed with all inquired software ¤Flexible hard disk capacity (600, 1200, 1600 GB) 25

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Complete Product series LPR cameras & Illuminators Robust Housing Design for easy installation ๏ IP 66 ๏ 100 -240 VC ๏ Blower & Heater inside ๏ Bracket with 360 degree swift 26

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Complete Product series 27 LPR cameras & Illuminators Flexible Camera Design ¤ Mirror, B. L. C, Digital Zoom, Enhance, Flick less functions to suit different environments. ¤ GROSS LINE and GRAY SCALE can be used as the pre-install camera image check to identify the image transfer problem during the usage, once it happens.

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Complete Product series LPR cameras & Illuminators Advanced Infra-Red Illumination Design ¤ unique high power LED-array 3 x 3 LED Epi Wafer ¤ least 20, 000 hours LED life ¤ low power consumption (IR on: 1. 2 A) ¤ provides 80 degree view angle ¤ Wavelength: 850 nm 28

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Complete Product series LPR Center Management ¤ Supports up to 255 GV-LPR clients. ¤ Video live view of GV-LPR Clients up to 16 ports at the same time, maximum 255 groups. ¤ Receives recognition result, recognition image and overview image from GV-LPR clients. ¤ Live event list. ¤ Web based interface for Central Recognition Database searching. 29

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? 30 Complete Product series LPR Center Management ¤ Central Web base Registered Database editing and distribution to GV-LPR clients. ¤ Receives alarm from GV-LPR clients. ¤ Remote controlling output relays of GV-LPR clients. ¤ Remote settings. ¤ Client status. 1 x event log: 1 KB/log 1 x D 1 image: 50 KB/pcs LPR Client TCP/IP LPR Center Ex. Police station 1 x Geo MPEG 4: ca. 500 KB/sec TCP/IP LPR Center Ex. Tax office

Session LPR AS Video Server WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Complete Product series Embedded solution (2 in 1) ๏ Support 1 or 2 cameras. ๏ MPEG 4 ASP video CODEC and G. 723 Audio CODEC. ๏ Support NVR for remote audio and video storage management. ๏ High quality Full D 1 to CIF 30/25 fps (NTSC/PAL) de-interlaced video. ๏ Adjustable bandwidth control to meet extreme environment. ๏ Build-in intelligent motion detection. ๏ Support many models of PTZ-dome. ๏ Multiple ways of notification and sending videos. ๏ 2 x USB 2. 0 for optional external storage and 802. 11 b/g connection. ๏ HTTP / FTP / SMTP / DDNS / NTP / Multicast / UPn. P support. ๏ Secure connection with IP address filtering and encrypted authentication. 31

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Complete Product series Embedded solution (2 in 1) As LPR features ๏ Support 1 or 2 cameras (lanes). ๏ Standalone solution without fan or hard disk. ๏ Support both I/O trigger mode and motion detection mode. ๏ Web based interface. ๏ Support GV-LPR Center for central management. ๏ Export recognition result and image for integration. ๏ Support 4 input sensors and 4 output relays. ๏ Support RJ 45 interface for LAN or WAN connection. 32

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? 33 Complete Product series Embedded solution (2 in 1) Input Sensor GV IR CAM Gate Through RJ 45, WAN/LAN GV-NVR Alarm Through I/O, Relay, RS 485 DDNS, Multicast, UPn. P 3 G Mobile GV-CMS FTP E-mail WEB GV-LPR Center

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Easy to integrate with another systems export recognition result through ¤ RS 232, ¤ File (. txt) or ¤ direct access to the database, with optional image output. 34

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? 35 Easy to integrate RS 232/485 LPR + WT GV IR CAM GV-I/O GV LPR PC RS 232/485 GV-WT RFID card reader Gate

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Easy to integrate (RS 232/485) LPR + DVR+ Billing System 36

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? 37 Easy to integrate (share folder) LPR + external Database 3 rd party system (ex. 3 rd party Database (ex. Visitor record) Black name list) • Fit to GV LPR database • Rename & save Registered Database LPR system Recognition • Export as. mdb format Txt, Word, Excel Access the database Export. mdb or. html Recognition Database/. mdb

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Complete functions in one ¤ No matter for Software motion detection or I/O activation ¤ No matter with what kind of systems to be integrated 38

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? High Accuracy How to achieve 99% accuracy rate? ¤ good quality of the image ¤ correct distance Frames= Distance (M) / speed (KM) x 109 Ex. 200 km/hr, captured distance 20 m= 10, 9 frames 3 -5 frames for recognition ¤ close & continue feedback from your side 39

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Acceptable Cost Our market position ¤ Current market price USD 2500 -3000 per lane USD 1500 -2000 per Camera & Illuminator ¤ Geo. Vision offers the free upgrade ¤ Geo. Vision offers the 24 hours worldwide technical support 40

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Multi-languages support We currently support : ¤ 繁體中文 (Chinese) ¤ English ¤ Deutsch ¤ Français ¤ Español ¤ Italiano We will support within this year: ¤ ( עברית Hebrew) ¤ Português ¤ Magyar (Hungarian) ¤ Český (Czech) ¤ Tűrkçe (Turkish) ¤ ไทย (Thai) ¤ ( ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ Arabic) ¤Etc. 41

Session LPR WHY Geo. Vision LPR? Widely deployed Currently support 42 Developing Key public reference sites: Europe Austria Czech Rep. Croatia France Germany Italy Poland Portugal Slovenia Spain UK America Canada USA Asia Pacific Australia Taiwan Thailand Middle East Israel Saudi Arabia Turkey Belgium Cyprus ¤ LPR as Law Enforcement: Hong Kong Hungary Tai Tung, Shin Chu Police, Taiwan Norway ¤ LPR as Parking lot management: Philippines The Netherlands Munich Intl. Airport, Germany South Africa ¤ LPR as Access control Switzerland UAE EVA Air, TSMC factory, Taiwan Etc.