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基于单字符注意力的全品类鲁棒车牌识别

穆世义 徐树公

穆世义, 徐树公. 基于单字符注意力的全品类鲁棒车牌识别. 自动化学报, 2023, 49(1): 122−134 doi: 10.16383/j.aas.c211210
引用本文: 穆世义, 徐树公. 基于单字符注意力的全品类鲁棒车牌识别. 自动化学报, 2023, 49(1): 122−134 doi: 10.16383/j.aas.c211210
Mu Shi-Yi, Xu Shu-Gong. Full-category robust license plate recognition based on character attention. Acta Automatica Sinica, 2023, 49(1): 122−134 doi: 10.16383/j.aas.c211210
Citation: Mu Shi-Yi, Xu Shu-Gong. Full-category robust license plate recognition based on character attention. Acta Automatica Sinica, 2023, 49(1): 122−134 doi: 10.16383/j.aas.c211210

基于单字符注意力的全品类鲁棒车牌识别

doi: 10.16383/j.aas.c211210
基金项目: 国家自然科学基金(61871262)资助
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    作者简介:

    穆世义:上海大学通信与信息工程学院硕士研究生. 主要研究方向为深度学习, 计算机视觉和光学字符识别. E-mail: mushiyishu@shu.edu.cn

    徐树公:上海大学通信与信息工程学院教授. 主要研究方向为无线通信和模式识别. 本文通信作者. E-mail: shugong@shu.edu.cn

Full-category Robust License Plate Recognition Based on Character Attention

Funds: Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61871262)
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    Author Bio:

    MU Shi-Yi Master student at the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University. His research interest covers deep learning, computer vision and optical character recognition

    XU Shu-Gong Professor at the School of Communication and Info-rmation Engineering, Shanghai University. His research interest covers wireless communication and pattern recognition. Corresponding author of this paper

  • 摘要: 复杂场景下的高精度车牌识别仍然存在着许多挑战, 除了光照、分辨率不可控和运动模糊等因素导致的车牌图像质量低之外, 还包括车牌品类多样产生的行数不一和字数不一等困难, 以及因拍摄角度多样出现的大倾角等问题. 针对这些挑战, 提出了一种基于单字符注意力的场景鲁棒的高精度车牌识别算法, 在无单字符位置标签信息的情况下, 使用注意力机制对车牌全局特征图进行单字符级特征分割, 以处理多品类车牌和倾斜车牌中的二维字符布局问题. 另外, 该算法通过使用共享参数的多分支结构代替现有算法的串行解码结构, 降低了分类头参数量并实现了并行化推理. 实验结果表明, 该算法在公开车牌数据集上实现了超越现有算法的精度, 同时具有较快的识别速度.
  • 图  1  注意力机制改进

    Fig.  1  Evolution of attention mechanism

    图  2  CARNet算法结构图

    Fig.  2  Framework of the proposed algorithm CARNet

    图  3  轻量化特征提取

    Fig.  3  Lightweight feature extraction

    图  4  单字符注意力网络

    Fig.  4  Single character attention network

    图  5  单字符特征分割

    Fig.  5  Single character feature segmentation

    图  6  脚本生成的车牌样本

    Fig.  6  License plate samples generated by script

    图  7  常见7字符车牌注意力图

    Fig.  7  Attention maps of seven-character license plates

    图  8  双行黄牌、新能源车牌及黑色车牌注意力图

    Fig.  8  Attention maps of double-line and new energy and black plate licenses

    图  9  真实复杂场景下的检测识别测试

    Fig.  9  Detection and recognition test in complex scene

    图  10  识别错误示例

    Fig.  10  Recognition error cases

    表  1  在CCPD上的车牌识别准确率(%)

    Table  1  License plate recognition accuracy on CCPD (%)

    算法平均基础集明暗集远近集旋转集倾斜集天气集挑战集
    Li 等[1]94.497.894.894.587.992.186.881.2
    Xu 等[27]95.598.596.994.390.892.587.985.1
    Wang 等[23]96.698.996.196.491.993.795.483.1
    Zou 等[8]97.899.398.598.692.594.499.386.6
    Yang 等[4]97.599.196.995.997.198.097.585.9
    Qin 等[33]97.599.593.393.798.295.998.992.9
    Qiao 等[34]96.999.097.195.595.096.595.983.1
    Zhang 等[20]98.599.698.898.896.497.698.588.9
    Liu 等[35]98.7499.7399.0599.2397.6298.4098.8988.51
    GCN98.7999.7099.0798.9698.3398.8298.6689.42
    CARNet99.50
    (0.02)
    99.89
    (0.01)
    99.57
    (0.08)
    99.56
    (0.04)
    99.68
    (0.04)
    99.80
    (0.01)
    99.38
    (0.06)
    94.92
    (0.09)
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    表  2  本文算法有效性评估(%)

    Table  2  Evaluation of the effectiveness of the algorithm of this paper (%)

    评估指标算法平均基础集明暗集远近集旋转集倾斜集天气集挑战集
    $ {R_{LP}} $GCN98.7999.7099.0798.9698.3398.8298.6689.42
    (0.10)(0.03)(0.11)(0.11)(0.25)(0.19)(0.13)(0.54)
    CARNet99.5099.8999.5799.5699.6899.8099.3894.92
    (0.02)(0.01)(0.08)(0.04)(0.04)(0.01)(0.06)(0.09)
    $ {R_{Char}} $GCN99.7499.9599.8399.7999.6899.7899.7797.28
    (0.02)(0.01)(0.02)(0.01)(0.05)(0.03)(0.02)(0.14)
    CARNet99.9099.9899.9499.9399.9599.9799.9098.89
    (0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)
    $ {R_{C\_Char}} $GCN99.7299.8799.7899.7899.5699.7199.7098.18
    (0.02)(0.01)(0.02)(0.01)(0.06)(0.03)(0.06)(0.07)
    CARNet99.9299.9999.9399.8999.9599.9899.9599.13
    (0.01)(0.01)(0.02)(0.02)(0.01)(0.01)(0.02)(0.01)
    $ {R_{W\_Char}} $GCN99.7499.9799.8399.8099.7099.8099.7897.13
    (0.02)(0.01)(0.02)(0.01)(0.05)(0.03)(0.01)(0.16)
    CARNet99.9099.9899.9499.9399.9599.9799.8998.85
    (0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)(0.01)
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    表  3  在CLPD上的车牌识别准确率

    Table  3  License plate recognition accuracy on CLPD

    算法训练数据${R_{LP} }$(%)
    Zhang 等[20]CCPD 基础集70.8
    GCN[22]CCPD 基础集74.4
    Zou 等[8]CCPD 基础集80.7
    Liu 等[35]CCPD 基础集80.3
    CARNetCCPD 基础集82.2
    CARNet混合数据集83.9
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    表  4  在混合品类车牌上的识别准确率

    Table  4  Recognition accuracy on mixed types of license plates

    车牌类别数量 (张)GCN[22] (%)CARNet (%)
    蓝牌车牌105096.399.0
    新能源绿牌101041.978.5
    大型车后牌66035.862.1
    教练车牌86044.974.8
    港澳车牌158053.774.9
    大型车前牌98063.275.8
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    表  5  各算法速度比较

    Table  5  Comparison of algorithm speed

    车牌识别算法车牌识别耗时 (ms)
    Zhang 等[20]7.9
    GCN[22]18.7
    CARNet4.9
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    表  6  低功耗嵌入式硬件测试

    Table  6  Low-power embedded device test

    算法硬件平台推理引擎耗时 (ms)
    Qin 等[9]Jetson NanoTensorFlow68
    CARNetJetson NanoPytorch41
    CARNetJetson TX2Pytorch30
    CARNetHi3516DV300NNIE46
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    表  7  特征提取网络消融实验

    Table  7  Feature extraction ablation experiment

    特征提取$ {R_{LP}} $(%)参数量
    计算复杂度 (GMacs)
    Resnet45[25]99.513.94 M14.66
    Xception1999.51.87 M1.71
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    表  8  分类头参数共享消融实验

    Table  8  Classification head weight sharing ablation experiment

    参数共享$ {R_{LP}} $(%)参数量
    计算复杂度 (GMacs)
    99.51.87 M1.71
    99.43.82 M1.71
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    表  9  单字符注意力消融实验

    Table  9  Ablation experiments for single-character attention

    单字符注意力$ {R_{LP}} $(%)参数量
    计算复杂度 (GMacs)
    99.51.87 M1.71
    99.13.04 M1.02
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