Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)

Image Recognition algorithms can identify objects they have been provided training and reference data for including people (facial recognition) and can also interpret text from images.

Identifying a vehicle by its registration number extracted by analyzing a picture of its license plate taken by a camera is known as an ANPR solution. It uses Image Recognition as the underlying AI algorithm and is very commonly used by traffic police to identify vehicles.

In our application, when a delivery vehicle arrives at the pickup or drop off locations we need to validate that it has a valid registration number, which should be extracted from a picture of its license plate taken by cameras placed at the pick up and drop off locations.

AWS Rekognition

Amazon Rekognition makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications. You just provide an image or video to the Amazon Rekognition API, and the service can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. We will be using the API to process images of license plates and extract the registration number for validation by the application.