TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

Ayala Blvd., Ermita, Manila

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

electronics@tup.edu.ph

Date: May 18, 2017

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Project Title: Development of License Plate Recognition (LPR) System for Automatic Car Barrier Using
Image Processing and Artificial Neural Network

Proponents:
Progress Percentage
1. Alacapa, Maria Angelica P.- Documentation
Objectives Actual Goal
2. Calangian, Adriane Roy F. - Hardware
1. To design a License Plate Recognition (LPR) system for controlling an
3. De Guzman, Romel A. - Hardware automatic car barrier.
20% 30%
4. Merin, Emmanuel Joshua C. - Software 2. To develop a program for extracting license plate region from the
5. Minguez, Grason B. - Software captured image of the vehicle using image processing. 98% 100%
3. To construct a character recognition system for identifying license plate
characters from the processed image through back-propagation neural 20% 40%
network.
4. To determine a suitable camera for capturing the front side of the
vehicle. 70% 100%
5. To implement the system for facilitating in the safety and security of the
establishment in relation to vehicles. 10% 20%
6. To provide a more convenient vehicle logging system for the target
recipient.
-- 20%
TOTAL: 36% 51%

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PROGRESS REPORT

Objective no. 1

The proponents have called different companies offering car barrier system to know the prices,
parts and features. Unfortunately, all commercially-available are not cost-effective. On the other hand,
we found a machine shopPCS Builders & Machine Works, Inc. that are capable of constructing the
projects hardware. He also suggest possible designs to make it more economic and efficient.

Objective no. 2

The proponents have decided to switch back from Java programming language to MATLAB due
to its complicated programming algorithm structures. The proponents will adopt the algorithms that
were made in Java back to MATLAB as well. The program runs perfectly in MATLAB and detects the
license plate region through Blob Extraction process. The figure in the proceeding section shows the
extracted plate region that were detected using Blob Extraction and Histogram analysis in MATLAB. The
license plate extraction is almost done. Some improvements will be performed.

Objective no. 3

The proponents are planning to use the Segmentation process that were made initially in the
beginning using MATLAB. After the license plate region is detected and extracted, a perspective
correction process will be performed. Then the segmentation process will be done. After this, the
individual characters that were segmented will be recognized through Artificial Neural Network.

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Objective no. 4

The members have decided where to buy camera located in Dahua Company at BF Homes,
Paraaque. The technical staff of the shop advised us to return for CCTV demonstration and installation.

Objective no. 5
Objective no. 6

Gantt Chart

ACTIVITIES SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

Group Meeting
Adviser Consultation
Finish the development of license plate extraction program
Design (HARDWARE)
Creating character segmentation and recognition.

License Plate Detection using Java

License Plate Detection using MATLAB

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Discussion on the Construction of Car Nar

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 Noted By:

Engr. Timothy M. Amado

Adviser

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