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Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) - What is it?
ALPR, aka Automated License Plate Recognition, is the process of capturing license plate information. ALPR software takes a picture of a license plate and collects real-time information, often to identify a vehicle. For organizations like police departments, city governments, and vehicle-related industries, ALPR technology can provide information and insights that help optimize communities and processes.
How to Test Computer Vision Systems (Part 2 of 2)
Start here to learn how to test and validate AI-powered computer vision systems—from setup to performance metrics.
How to Test Computer Vision Systems (Part 1 of 2)
Start here to learn how to test and validate AI-powered computer vision systems—from setup to performance metrics.
Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning vs Deep Learning: How are they all connected?
Artificial Intelligence can thus be thought of as a system to help mimic human intelligence by using algorithms; techniques, rules and/or methods to learn, reason and react to different situations and scenarios like a human would do.
Black History Month: The Story Behind Home Video Security’s Hidden Inventor
Meet Marie Van Brittan Brown—the Black woman who invented modern home video security. Her impact still shapes today’s AI systems.
Sighthound IO: Deeply-Learned Computer Vision Technology Now on Windows
Companies needing to access computer vision through a cloud API have many choices.
Breaking Boundaries in License Plate Recognition
What would an ideal LPR system look like? Automated reading of license plates has been around for decades. Unfortunately, most of the technology has not changed much in that time.
Recognition of European Vehicles
Every year in the UK hundreds gather for the Festival of the Unexceptional. In usually damp surroundings the most unglamorous vehicles of a little-gilded age joust for the prize of most mediocre…