Thread Subject: car plate detection

car plate detection

"su yan" <meelim11@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> car plate detection

Hippopotamus Counting

"su yan" <meelim11@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> car plate detection

Grand prize broccoli growing

In article <g5n0da$d5b$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
Dave Robinson <dave.robinson@somewhere.biz> wrote:
>"su yan" <meelim11@yahoo.com> wrote in message
><g5m4ob$kje$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
>> car plate detection

>Hippopotamus Counting

Don't be silly. You can't use car plates to keep track of hippopotami:
the mud gets all over the plates and renders them useless. Everyone
in the field knows that you have to use bar-codes!

--
  "A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished,
  has accomplished nothing." -- Walter Reisch

roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in
message <g5nmdh$pf$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
> In article <g5n0da$d5b$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
> Dave Robinson <dave.robinson@somewhere.biz> wrote:
> >"su yan" <meelim11@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> ><g5m4ob$kje$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> >> car plate detection
>
> >Hippopotamus Counting
>
> Don't be silly. You can't use car plates to keep track of
hippopotami:
> the mud gets all over the plates and renders them useless.
Everyone
> in the field knows that you have to use bar-codes!
>
> --
> "A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished,
> has accomplished nothing." -- Walter Reisch


I think you make a good point there. I'd add that
hippopotami are likely to eat or at least trample on
broccoli. This must be the reason of the cages, in the zoos.

However, our friend Su Yan wants to do something so
elementary that I'm astonished that there is no built-in
Matlab function to do it.

Hey guys, could you please put in r2009 a
"detect_car_plate()" function??

"Gavrilo Bozovic" <gavrilo.bozovic@helbling.ch> wrote
> However, our friend Su Yan wants to do something so
> elementary that I'm astonished that there is no built-in
> Matlab function to do it.
>
> Hey guys, could you please put in r2009 a
> "detect_car_plate()" function??

Unfortunately, I don't have a license for
the "Inconceivable Processing Toolbox", so I can't use the
read_mind function to figure out what's going on in this
thread =).

Ken

"Kenneth Eaton" <Kenneth.dot.Eaton@cchmc.dot.org> wrote in
message <g5nvvt$rk$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Gavrilo Bozovic" <gavrilo.bozovic@helbling.ch> wrote
> > However, our friend Su Yan wants to do something so
> > elementary that I'm astonished that there is no built-in
> > Matlab function to do it.
> >
> > Hey guys, could you please put in r2009 a
> > "detect_car_plate()" function??
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have a license for
> the "Inconceivable Processing Toolbox", so I can't use
the
> read_mind function to figure out what's going on in this
> thread =).
>
> Ken

Su Yan started a game of Matlab 'Mornington Cresent' The
plan is you start with random Matlab application, and the
next player names another, this continues until the person
who declares "Hexagonal Hough Transform" is declared the
winner. Obviously there is no direct route between Car
Plate Detection and Hexagonal Hough Transform, else the
game would be quite pointless. Unfortunately Walter kind of
interrupted the game flow by going off topic, but as his
response was very funny and made me smile late on a
Thursday (which is quite difficult), anyhow the game was
terminated.

Hope that helps

Regards

Dave Robinson

Dave Robinson wrote:

> Su Yan started a game of Matlab 'Mornington Cresent' The
> plan is you start with random Matlab application, and the
> next player names another, this continues until the person
> who declares "Hexagonal Hough Transform" is declared the
> winner. Obviously there is no direct route between Car
> Plate Detection and Hexagonal Hough Transform, else the
> game would be quite pointless.

Presumably there has to be some kind of link between the
various applications.

> Unfortunately Walter kind of
> interrupted the game flow by going off topic

Wot?? Matlab with the Instrument Control toolbox could certainly
be used for bar-code detection and thence tracking the hippos.
The only hard part is training the Labeo fish to carry the
bar-code reader close enough to the hippos for a solid reading.

Walter Roberson <roberson@hushmail.com> wrote in message
<8A4gk.116355$gc5.14864@pd7urf2no>...
> Dave Robinson wrote:
>
> > Su Yan started a game of Matlab 'Mornington Cresent'
The
> > plan is you start with random Matlab application, and
the
> > next player names another, this continues until the
person
> > who declares "Hexagonal Hough Transform" is declared
the
> > winner. Obviously there is no direct route between Car
> > Plate Detection and Hexagonal Hough Transform, else the
> > game would be quite pointless.
>
> Presumably there has to be some kind of link between the
> various applications.
>
> > Unfortunately Walter kind of
> > interrupted the game flow by going off topic
>
> Wot?? Matlab with the Instrument Control toolbox could
certainly
> be used for bar-code detection and thence tracking the
hippos.
> The only hard part is training the Labeo fish to carry the
> bar-code reader close enough to the hippos for a solid
reading.

Yes your solution to Hippo Counting was excellent, but you
should have responded with your own application title
loosly connected to mine, maybe "Zebra Fish Clustering",
however your response should have been to the new target of
"Grand prize broccoli growing".

Anyway we will wait for someone else to start a fresh game,
and we can all play now we know the Rules.

Dave Robinson