Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) has many

applications in traffic systems (highway electronic toll collection, red

light violation enforcement, border and customs checkpoints, etc.).

License Plate Recognition is an effective form of AVI systems. In

this study, a smart and simple algorithm is presented for vehicle’s

license plate recognition system. The proposed algorithm consists of

three major parts: Extraction of plate region, segmentation of

characters and recognition of plate characters. For extracting the

plate region, edge detection algorithms and smearing algorithms are

used. In segmentation part, smearing algorithms, filtering and some

morphological algorithms are used. And finally statistical based

template matching is used for recognition of plate characters. The

performance of the proposed algorithm has been tested on real

images. Based on the experimental results, we noted that our

algorithm shows superior performance in car license plate

recognition