PVBR-Recog: A YOLOv3-based Brazilian Automatic License Plate Recognition Tool

Vehicle’s license plate detection and recognition is a task with several practical applications. It can be applied, for example, in the security segment, identifying stolen cars and controlling cars entry/exit in private areas. This work presents a Deep Learning based tool that uses the cascaded YOLOv3 to simultaneously detect and recognize vehicle plate. In experiments performed, our tool got a recall of 95% in plate detection and 96.2% accuracy in the recognition of the 7 characters of the license plate.