Image Recognition
To would-be criminals, a closed-caption TV (CCTV) camera and a license plate recognition (LPR) camera may look the same—and hopefully deter them from committing a crime. LPR cameras are purpose-built to recognize and extract license plate information using advanced optical character recognition (OCR) and image-processing algorithms, while CCTV cameras are general-purpose, typically recording activities in fixed areas. In addition to offering fixed LPR camera solutions, Insight LPR also controls valuable LPR data collected by a mobile fleet of vehicles covering areas not served by fixed cameras. The time it takes to extract and run information is another difference between LPR and CCTV cameras. CCTV cameras’ video footage needs to be manually reviewed and analyzed while LPR cameras automatically extract license plate information.