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This project report details the development of a deep learning system for automatic detection of helmets and vehicle number plates using Faster R-CNN, aimed at enhancing road safety and automating vehicle identification. The system achieved approximately 90% accuracy for helmet detection and 85% for number plate recognition, while also highlighting challenges such as varying helmet designs and low-light conditions affecting OCR performance. Future enhancements include real-time detection on edge devices and improved OCR accuracy through deep learning techniques.

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This project report details the development of a deep learning system for automatic detection of helmets and vehicle number plates using Faster R-CNN, aimed at enhancing road safety and automating vehicle identification. The system achieved approximately 90% accuracy for helmet detection and 85% for number plate recognition, while also highlighting challenges such as varying helmet designs and low-light conditions affecting OCR performance. Future enhancements include real-time detection on edge devices and improved OCR accuracy through deep learning techniques.

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Helmet and Number Plate Detection

using Faster R-CNN


Project Report
Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Institute of Technology
Submitted by: Om Prakash

Abstract
This project aims to develop a deep learning-based system for automatic detection of
helmets and vehicle number plates using Faster R-CNN. The primary objective is to enhance
road safety by identifying helmet rule violators and automating vehicle identification. The
project uses computer vision techniques, convolutional neural networks (CNN), and optical
character recognition (OCR) to achieve high accuracy in real-world conditions.

Introduction
Helmet and number plate detection is crucial for traffic monitoring and law enforcement.
Many road accidents occur due to the negligence of motorcyclists not wearing helmets.
Additionally, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) is essential for vehicle tracking,
law enforcement, and smart city projects. Our system employs Faster R-CNN, a highly
accurate object detection model, along with OCR for number plate text extraction.

Traditional methods for helmet and number plate detection relied on manual checking or
simple rule-based systems. However, these methods are inefficient and prone to errors.
Deep learning-based approaches, particularly Faster R-CNN, provide better accuracy and
efficiency in detecting objects in real-time scenarios.

Literature Review
Several object detection models exist, including YOLO, SSD, and R-CNN. YOLO is known for
its real-time performance, whereas Faster R-CNN provides better accuracy in detecting
small and complex objects. Our research focuses on Faster R-CNN for helmet and number
plate detection due to its robustness in handling varying environmental conditions.

Faster R-CNN is an improvement over R-CNN and Fast R-CNN. It introduces Region
Proposal Networks (RPN) that improve detection speed without compromising accuracy.
This makes it suitable for applications requiring high precision, such as traffic law
enforcement.
Dataset Collection
We used a combination of publicly available datasets and manually annotated images for
training and testing. The dataset includes images of motorcyclists with and without helmets
and various types of vehicle number plates.

- **Sources:** Open-source datasets, traffic surveillance footage, manually collected images.


- **Number of Images:** Approximately 5000 images for training and 1000 images for
testing.
- **Annotations:** Bounding boxes for helmets and number plates were manually labeled.

Methodology
The implementation of the project follows these steps:

1. **Dataset Collection:** We used publicly available datasets and manually annotated


images for training.
2. **Preprocessing:** Applied image resizing, noise reduction, and contrast enhancement.
3. **Model Training:** Used Faster R-CNN for object detection and Tesseract OCR for
number plate recognition.
4. **Evaluation:** The model was tested on real-world traffic images to measure accuracy.
5. **Integration:** The detected number plates were processed using OCR for text
extraction.

Implementation & Tools


We implemented the project using the following tools and technologies:

- **Programming Language:** Python


- **Deep Learning Framework:** TensorFlow, Keras
- **Object Detection Model:** Faster R-CNN
- **OCR Tool:** Tesseract OCR
- **Libraries Used:** OpenCV, NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas
- **Hardware:** NVIDIA GPU for faster training
- **Annotation Tool:** LabelImg for manually labeling dataset

Results & Analysis


The model achieved an accuracy of approximately 90% for helmet detection and 85% for
number plate recognition. False positives were minimized using post-processing
techniques. Real-time performance can be enhanced using hardware optimization
techniques.
In comparison to YOLO and SSD, Faster R-CNN showed higher accuracy but slightly lower
processing speed. However, for applications where precision is critical, Faster R-CNN
remains a preferable choice.

Challenges & Limitations


- Detecting helmets with different colors and shapes was challenging.
- Number plate recognition faced issues in low-light conditions.
- Real-time processing speed needs further improvement.
- Some number plates had non-standard fonts, which reduced OCR accuracy.

Future Scope
Future enhancements of this project include:
- Implementing real-time detection using edge devices like Raspberry Pi.
- Improving OCR accuracy using deep learning-based text recognition.
- Integrating the system with law enforcement databases for automated fine collection.
- Exploring lightweight object detection models for mobile deployment.

Conclusion
This project successfully demonstrated a deep learning-based approach for helmet and
number plate detection. The use of Faster R-CNN provided high accuracy, making it suitable
for practical applications in traffic monitoring and law enforcement.

References
[1] Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross B. Girshick, and Jian Sun. 'Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-
Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks.' IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2015.
[2] Joseph Redmon et al. 'YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection.' IEEE Conference on Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2016.
[3] OpenCV Documentation: https://docs.opencv.org/
[4] TensorFlow Object Detection API: https://tensorflow.org/

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