Abstract
Abstract: nowadays tracking vehicles is a very cumbersome task due to their voluminous numbers. As a consequence an automatic identification system becomes a matter of practical necessity. To achieve such an objective, we propose an automatic car License Number Plate Recognition System (LNPRS). The system consists of three parts; the first has the role of preprocessing the image and prepare it for later stages. The second logically segments the license plate sub-image from the original front image of the vehicle. The third part deals with the sub-image that encompasses the license number, for recognition through a set of recognition algorithms based on Knn-Nearest Neighbor method. The final outcome would be the Vehicle Identification Number, VIN.Accordingly, the status of every vehicle would be easily tracked. Experiments on our system produced an overall 91% recognition rate.