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Image Special Effects ISE

IN–COURSE ASSESSMENT
(GROUP PROJECT)

Intake : UC2F2008GD-IS
Lecturer : Hamam Mokayed
Date assigned : 9th week
Due date : 4th of June before 11:59 pm

1.0 THE PROJECT OVERVIEW

Project License Plate Recognition
title

The idea of the project is to provide a solution to detect and recognize the Malaysian car plate
without any noise coming with the plate by implementing the concepts covered during the course.
Be creative and define the scope of what you can do without any limit. Anything that satisfies the
requirements is fine (refer Section 4.0: Project Requirements). The scope and contents of the task
chosen will be determined by you.

2.0 OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT:

 Equip students with practical knowledge about image processing, computer vision and
pattern recognition in programming and computing. The focus will not be on teaching all of
the details of programming under specific platforms, but rather on providing both a high-
level understanding and practical implementation experience of reusable algorithms and
coding techniques that apply to the development of application across different platforms
and genres.

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3.0 LEARNING OUTCOMES:

At the end of this project, the students should be able to:
 Demonstrate a working knowledge and understanding of image processing, computer vision
and pattern recognition algorithms.
 Use different approaches to edit/extract and manipulate image using the existing algorithms.
 Identify and adapt appropriate algorithms and software to judge resource requirements for
an imaging problem.
 Design and build appropriate systems for problems requiring an imaging solution and
pattern recognition.

4.0 PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:

The given assignment must satisfy the following requirements:

Option 1 License Plate Recognition

A sequence of images capturing a moving car while accessing the gate all day long
is given. Your goal is to recognize license plate for any given images of the same
camera for both taxi and normal cars. Finally we will give you some new testing
images to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed techniques. The challenge of the
proposed project is to be able to recognize the plate and clear all the related noises.

Figure 4: Illustration of license plate recognition

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In addition, a supporting document is needed to reflect on the methodologies and

implementation tasks applied in the development of the application. In terms of documentation, you
are required to describe and justify the theoretical information about the imaging algorithms used.
In order to fulfil the objective of this coursework, you are also required to describe the results of
testing using various test images, particularly on images that fail.

5.0 PROJECT MEMBER:

 group work

6.0 DELIVERABLES:
A prototype of image related application illustrated in Section 1.0 and 4.0 in the form of a CD-
ROM and the documentation (project report in printed form).

7.1 APPLICATION IN CD FORM:

 The completed application must be compiled into an executable file (*.exe) and
burned onto a CD-ROM.
 The CD-ROM must contain all relevant source code (*.cs, *.sln, *.cpp, *.m or *.h,)
and test files (e.g. *.jpg, *.gif etc.)
 Do not compress your source code.

7.2 DOCUMENTS: PROJECT REPORT

 As part of your assessment, you will have to submit the project report which include the
followings:
 Table of contents
 Acknowledgement Section
 The objectives
 Problem domain (Analysis of the problem)
 Description and justification of the proposed algorithms for the aforesaid
problem domain.
 Description and discussion of the test plan and results obtained
 Critical comments and analysis

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 Conclusion
 References
Note:
 Do not include programming codes in your documentation.
 Total recommended number of pages for documentation is in the range of 20 and 25 pages
 You may source information from the Internet. If you have accessed the Internet, reference the
resources used carefully in your document.
 All references must be made using the Harvard Naming Convention as shown below:
The theory was first propounded in 1970 (Larsen, A.E. 1971), but since then has been refuted;
M.K. Larsen (1983) is among those most energetic in their opposition……….

List of references at the end of your document must be specified in the following format:

Larsen, A.E. 1971, A Guide to the Aquatic Science Literature, McGraw-Hill, London.

Larsen, M.K. 1983, British Medical Journal (Online), Available World Wide Web: URL:
http://libinfor.ume.maine.edu/acquatic.htm
(Accessed 19 November 1995)

Further information on other type of citation is available in Li, X. and Crane (1993), Electronic
Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information, Meckler, Westport.

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8.0 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

 The project will be assessed based on the following key areas:

Marks Marks
Criteria Criteria
Allocated Allocated
1 Technicality:
Objectives 5% Implementation of LPR 30%
system
2 Problem domain
5%
4 Description and discussion of license
plate/noise detection algorithms 20%

5 Description and discuss of Plate

recognition 20%

5 Experimental results and the critical

analysis 20%

9.0 FRONT COVER OF PROJECT:

 All reports must be prepared with a front cover. A protective transparent plastic sheet can be
placed in front of the report to protect the front cover. The front cover should be presented with
the following details:x

a) Names.
b) Intake code.
c) Subject.
d) Project Title.
e) Date Completed (the date the report is due to be handed in).

10.0 DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

 The program written for this assignment may be written in any preferable programming
language below:

Tools / Software
1 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or 2005
2 C Programming

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 The program must contain all the relevant source code. The usage of predefined
imaging functions in the image processing library is allowed. However, you must
understand fully how the codes are used because this will be tested in the
presentation. You must also identify through comments in your code which code has
been reused, citing and referencing it appropriately.
 The writing of code and the work behind it must belong substantially to you. If any
person besides you contributes in any significant way to the assignment, you must
credit their work in your description. Similarly, if you include information/source
code that you have used from other published sources or web pages, you must cite
them as references.

11.0 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

 You are expected to maintain the utmost level of academic integrity during the duration of the
course.
 Plagiarism is a serious offence and will be dealt with according to APIIT’s regulations on
plagiarism.

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