Number Plate Recognition Products

  CARMEN Freeflow - ANPR software package

Overview

CARMEN FreeFlow is a general-purpose Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) product. It can be used in ALL applications, where automatic recognition of vehicle license plates is needed.

CARMEN FreeFlow provides the core ANPR technology in a form so that it can be easily integrated into computer systems.

Our market leading ANPR technology is capable of automatic detection, identification and recognition of the registration number of any vehicle.

CARMEN system helps the system integrators and solution providers to meet the challenges of developing effective ITS, AVI, security, and parking management products and solutions by making it easier to incorporate vehicle plate number based information into their computing environment.

CARMEN offers the ability to integrate ANPR technology into any kind of system or application where automatic recognition of number plates is required. It has been developed for manufacturers, solution providers and system integrators - in short for anyone interested in integrating automatic vehicle number plate recognition technology into computer systems.

CARMEN IS A PROVEN PRODUCT. It works for the satisfaction of hundreds of customers around the World.

 

 

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Technical Specification

Supported Operating System	WinNT, Win2K, Linux
Programming Languages	Visual C/C++ 6.0 Visual Basic 6.0 Borland Delphi 5.0 C/C++ under Linux
Additional Tools	SDK for easy integration ActiveX, Delphi components JPEG Codec
Type of Plates	Recognition is country independent
Image Input	Memory, file
File Types	BMP, JPEG
File Formats	Grayscale, RGB16, RGB24, RGB32, YUV
Image Size	Minimum 300 x 200 pixels Maximum 2500 x 2000 pixels
Processing Time Dependence	Image content (complexity) Image size Processing power (CPU speed) Parameter settings
Sample Processing Time	100ms @ CPU 500MHz, 768 x 288 pixels (PAL/2)
Output	Plate number in ASCII Plate position Positions of characters Tip list for each characters Confidence levels for each tips
Documentation	Reference Manual in printed form Reference Manual in electronic format
System Requirements (min)	Intel Celeron 466 MHz CPU 64 MB RAM Free PCI or PC104+ slot

 

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Components

CARMEN CD-ROM

· CARMEN Automatic Number Plate Recognition Engine

The core of CARMEN is an image processing software module (or software library) that interprets the content of raw visual data, extracts the important information and converts it into "computer understandable" format within a fraction of a second. The proprietary image recognition and OCR technology of Adaptive Recognition Hungary is embodied in this computer program. The CARMEN Engine provides the ability to read virtually any license plate in the world.
The CARMEN Engine has no user interface (GUI) but it has an Application Programming Interface (API) as the Engine has been designed to be integrated into application and to serve as an automatic number plate recognition service.

· Software Development Kit (SDK)

The SDK is a rich collection of tools, utilities and well-documented, self-explaining sample programs. It serves as a step-by-step guide on "how to integrate the ANPR Engine into your application". There are several C/C++, Visual C/C++, Visual Basic and Delphi programs in source code. For easy integration the SDK contains ActiveX interface for Visual Basic, and Components for Delphi.
It takes 15-30 minutes (!) for a programmer to create her/his first plate recognition application around the CARMEN ANPR Engine.

· CARMEN Reference Manual -in electronic form

CARMEN Reference Manual - in printed form   

The Reference Manual describes the CARMEN's native Application Programming Interface in detail and also provides detailed information on the (higher) ActiveX and Delphi component level interfaces. It is the basic handbook of he plate recognition product.

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Applications

· Vehicle Entrance Admission
· Public/Private Car Park Management/Automation
· Airport/Harbour Cargo Management/Control
· Security Monitoring of Roads, Check Points
· Vehicle Theft Prevention/Detection
· Law Enforcement Automation
· Vehicle Access Control
· State Border Surveillance
· Transit Traffic Monitoring
· Crime Prevention/Detection
· Traffic Flow Statistics
· Highway Toll Collection

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