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Existing rule-based solutions built on horizontal bounding boxes and center-point\/line-crossing criteria are sensitive to perspective distortion, occlusion, and frame-to-frame jitter, resulting in unstable decisions and low evidential value. This paper presents a cascaded UAV-view system that closes the loop from perception to evidence output through detection\u2013segmentation\u2013recognition\u2013decision. First, we adopt a two-stage detection cascade: a lightweight vehicle detector localizes vehicles using axis-aligned bounding boxes, and a dedicated YOLOv5n-based oriented bounding box (OBB) license plate detector, constructed via architecture grafting and weight transfer, is then applied within each vehicle region of interest (ROI) to localize rotated license plates under large pose variation and small-target conditions. Second, a U-Net lane region segmentation module provides pixel-level spatial constraints to define an enforceable lane occupancy region. Third, a perspective rectification step is integrated with the PP-OCRv4 optical character recognition (OCR) framework to improve license plate recognition reliability for tilted plates. Finally, an area ratio criterion and an N-frame temporal counter are used to suppress transient misdetections and stabilize alarms. On a representative 100-sample controlled encroachment benchmark, the proposed system improves detection accuracy from 67.0% to 92.0% and reduces the false positive rate from 32.35% to 5.88% compared with a baseline horizontal bounding box (HBB)-based rule. 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