In recent years, traffic congestion and vehicle stolen has become a significant problem. To avoid this and to provide safety also, vehicle number plate recognition is the most important and challenging area because the number plates are different in shapes and sizes and also have different color in different countries. In India, the most common vehicle number plates used are yellow or white as background and black used as foreground color. Not only considering the safety aspect, this system can be applied to monitor road traffic such as the speed of vehicle and identification of the vehicle’s owner. This system is designed to support the authorities in identifying the stolen vehicle not only for car but motorcycle as well. In this paper, we study different techniques to track the number plate mainly which is necessary for vehicle identification to catch the stolen vehicle. Also it will helpful in other application areas and we can find out advantages, disadvantages and accuracy of these techniques.

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