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Nevertheless, due to the low accuracy of license plate detection in natural scenes, further investigations are still needed in this field in order to make the detection process very efficient. In this paper, We have studied and implemented a convolutional neural network license plate detection algorithm based on transfer learning. According to the invention, new energy license plates and ordinary license plates are adopted as the research objects. The text detection model AdvancedEAST is trained on the license plate images through the transfer learning method, and experiments are carried out on the self-built license plate dataset. The experimental results show that the algorithm can better adapt to light complexity, low resolution, target interference, license plate tilt and other complex conditions. The license plate positioning algorithm has high accuracy in natural scenes, and it is superior to the traditional license plate detection methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/jcm-215046","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,18]],"date-time":"2021-06-18T14:47:30Z","timestamp":1624027650000},"page":"1521-1529","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Detection optimization of license plate targets based on AdvancedEAST"],"prefix":"10.66113","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Feifei","family":"Yin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Network and Information Office North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jingxuan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Xiong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Network and Information Office North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Juanjuan","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"55691","reference":[{"key":"10.3233\/JCM-215046_ref1","first-page":"8","article-title":"Vehicle Number Plate Detection System for Indian Vehicles","author":"Karwal","year":"2015","journal-title":"Computational Intelligence"},{"key":"10.3233\/JCM-215046_ref2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"C.I. 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