Young Innovators: Student improves licence plate recognition technology

A University of Saskatchewan graduate student is building better licence plate recognition technology to fight crime and improve security.  
Juan Yepez has developed new, faster and more accurate software to improve existing systems that can identify a car’s licence plate by simply analyzing plate images.
Plate recognition technology is becoming more common to enhance security, but current systems are expensive and relatively slow, said Yepez and his supervisor Seok-Bum Ko.
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