%0 Journal Article %T Uma abordagem para localiza o e reconhecimento de placas de licenciamento veicular por meio de operadores morfol¨®gicos e busca por template %A Wonder Alexandre Luz Alves %A Danilo de Sousa Abreu %A Sidnei Alves de Ara¨²jo %A Andr¨¦ Felipe Henriques Librantz %J Exacta %D 2011 %I Universidade Nove de Julho %X This paper presents a method for locating and recognizing vehicle license plates. The proposed method consists of two major stages: (1) extraction of the license plate region and (2) recognition of the plate. In the first stage, a robust scheme of morphological operators extracts the license plate region from the input image. In the second stage, a process for generating license plate candidates is performed using a template matching technique, followed by heuristics to determine the recognized plate. Preliminary results show that the method may be a good alternative for applications involving the recognition of vehicle license plates. %U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81021140008