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The main disadvantage of Otsu method is that it is sensitive to luminance effect and noise, and this property is impractical since most vehicle images are captured in an open environment. In this paper, we propose a system to improve the performance of automatic license plates reorganization in the open environment in Taiwan. Our system uses a binarization method which is inspired by the symmetry principles. Experimental results showed that when our method has a similar time complexity to that of Otsu, our method can improve the recognition rate up to 1.30 times better than Otsu.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym12081374","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,18]],"date-time":"2020-08-18T12:48:43Z","timestamp":1597754923000},"page":"1374","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["A Fast and Noise Tolerable Binarization Method for Automatic License Plate Recognition in the Open Environment in Taiwan"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Chun-Cheng","family":"Peng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung County 41349, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Cheng-Jung","family":"Tsai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate Institute of Statistics and Information Science, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City 50007, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Ting-Yi","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City 50007, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Jen-Yuan","family":"Yeh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Operation, Visitor Service, Collection and Information Management, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung City 40453, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Hsun","family":"Dai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate Institute of Statistics and Information Science, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City 50007, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Min-Hsiu","family":"Tsai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate Institute of Statistics and Information Science, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City 50007, Taiwan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"771","DOI":"10.4304\/jcp.4.8.771-777","article-title":"Vehicle License Plate Detection Method Based on Sliding Concentric Windows and Histogram","volume":"4","author":"Deb","year":"2009","journal-title":"J. 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