Kapil Bardeja, CEO, Kritikal Securescan

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KritiKal SecureScanCreating a Secure Tomorrow

Date : 13th Feb 2009

VehiScan™ Automated number plate reading system

NASSCOM India Leadership Summit

Presented by:

Kapil Bardeja

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About KritiKal

KritiKal Group was the first IIT Delhi based alumni & faculty led

start-up, incorporated in August 2002

• 7 ex IIT-D graduates and 5 faculty member of the CSE.

KritiKal SecureScan Pvt Ltd.

Incorporated in Aug 2005 to commercialize technologies in Vehicle

security, with support of A G Venture Capital.

OUR VISION: Develop cutting edge solutions in the Vehicle Security

Domain

OUR FOCUS: Vehicle Authentication applications.

Current Products : ZenScan™ and VehiScan™

Future : Intend to add more products in Security and surveillance

domain.


About VehiScan


VehiScan™ Summary

VehiScan™ is art-of-state license plate recognition system that enables us to identify the vehicle by capturing and recognizing a moving vehicle’s number plate

Transmits real-time time stamp of entry/exit to the database.

Based on latest pattern recognition, image processing & artificial intelligence techniques along with built-in proprietary algorithms which can recognize the number plates in any language

VehiScan™ automated information resource adds a new vital dimension to decision-making for Access control, Security and Traffic management personnel.

VehiScan™ system can be easily integrated with any physical access control devices like boom barriers, sliding gates for seamless access.


Candidate License Plates Localized

CCTV Camera

Raw Video Stream

Edge Features

Correct License Plate Detected Using LP features

Segmentation

DL9CD5036Data after OCR

Database

VehiScan Process


The Indian scenario requires high accuracy on varied fonts and have to be low cost solution

• High Accuracy on Indian number plates Reduces the junk characters

Innovative plate detection methodologies.

Skew correction and slant correction, flexibility in placement of cameras.

Flexible enough to incorporate variability in • Font size , style

• Position of plate on the body of vehicle

• Quality of plates.


High Accuracy Cont...

Two tier Automatic Image Enhancement techniques to make SVM-based OCR run accurate and fast.

Brightness and contrast enhancement

To contend with a huge variety of lighting conditions, daytime, night-time, sunlight, backlight, headlights, and so on.

Noise removal techniques to avoid OCR confusions.

Slant and skew correction

This gives the flexibility to the camera to be kept away from the line of vehicle movement.

Handles upto 35 degree of horizontal skew or vertical rotation.

Kapil Bardeja, CEO, Kritikal Securescan

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