: This work proposes a method for the detection and identification of vehicle number plate that will help in the detection of number
plates of authorized and unauthorized vehicles. This paper presents an approach based on simple but efficient morphological operation and
Sobel edge detection method. This approach is simplified to segmented all the letters and numbers used in the number plate by using bounding
box method. After segmentation of numbers and characters present on number plate, template matching approach is used to recognition of
numbers and characters. The concentrate is given to locate the number plate region properly to segment all the number and letters to identify
each number separately using CNN.
Keywords: Automatic number plate recognition, Sobel edge detection method, Criminal Record , Bounding box method