jiayuahao/automatic-license-plate-recognition-using-yolov8

License Plate Detection using YOLOv8

Automatic-Number-Plate-Recognition-YOLOv8

Demo

license.plate.recording.for.git.mp4

Data

The video I used in this tutorial can be downloaded here.

Model

A Yolov8 pre-trained model (YOLOv8n) was used to detect vehicles.

A licensed plate detector was used to detect license plates. The model was trained with Yolov8 using this dataset.

• The model is available here.

Dependencies

The sort module needs to be downloaded from this repository.

Project Setup

• Make an environment with python=3.8 using the following command

conda create --prefix ./env python==3.8 -y

• Activate the environment

conda activate ./env

• Install the project dependencies using the following command

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run main.py with the sample video file to generate the test.csv file

python main.py

• Run the add_missing_data.py file for interpolation of values to match up for the missing frames and smooth output.

python add_missing_data.py

• Finally run the visualize.py passing in the interpolated csv files and hence obtaining a smooth output for license plate detection.

python visualize.py