Bengali License Plate Recognition: Unveiling Clarity with CNN and
  GFP-GAN
Noushin Afrin Md Mahamudul Hasan Mohammed Fazlay Elahi Safin Khondakar Rifat Amin Md Zahidul Haque Farzad Ahmed Md. Tanvir Rouf Shawon
Automated License Plate Recognition(ALPR) is a system that automatically
reads and extracts data from vehicle license plates using image processing and
computer vision techniques. The Goal of LPR is to identify and read the license
plate number accurately and quickly, even under challenging, conditions such as
poor lighting, angled or obscured plates, and different plate fonts and
layouts. The proposed method consists of processing the Bengali low-resolution
blurred license plates and identifying the plate's characters. The processes
include image restoration using GFPGAN, Maximizing contrast, Morphological
image processing like dilation, feature extraction and Using Convolutional
Neural Networks (CNN), character segmentation and recognition are accomplished.
A dataset of 1292 images of Bengali digits and characters was prepared for this
project.