License plate recognition systems are becoming more and more common in public parking lots, where instead of using the traditional ticket barrier system, cars are identified based on their license plates.
This master's thesis explores the possibility of simplifying and subsequently reducing the cost of such systems, which could allow them to enter into domestic use.
A system based on the Raspberry Pi 4 platform was developed. The SSD MobileNet V2 FPNLite 320x320 neural network model was used to detect the location of license plates in car images. A custom dataset for model learning was created, containing images of Slovenian license plates. Cropped images that contain only license plates were then processed and prepared for optical character recognition process, which was done using PyTesseract library. A web interface that allows users to have an overview over the whole system was developed. Integration into an already existing household gate system was also explored.
The developed system is capable of processing video frames in real-time at a rate of 1.2 frames per second. The total cost of the developed system is 67 EUR.
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