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Video signal processing plays an important role in traffic surveillance systems which are widely used all around the world. A challenging problem for most traffic-related applications is to identify each vehicle through automatically detecting and recognising vehicle number plates in uncontrolled open environments. Most existing algorithms are developed for fixed cameras, where the backgrounds and view angles of captured videos and even the distances between cameras and their targeted vehicles are fixed or predictable. However, in many real-world applications, the traffic videos may be obtained from different resources. The backgrounds, view angles, shooting distances, illuminating conditions, as well as the positions, sizes and colours of the license plates in videos are all variable. In this talk, a new technique that can detect vehicle number plates with complex background via annotating traffic video in real-time is presented.

About Sean He
Dr Sean He has been with the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) since 1999 as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, Reader and Associate Professor.  As a chief investigator, Dr Xiangjian He has received many research grants including two ARC-Discovery grants, one ARC-Linkage grant, and one ARC Small grant in the areas of pattern recognition, video surveillance, computer vision and image processing. He is the Deputy Director of UTS Computer Vision Research Group, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He was awarded ‘Internationally Registered Technology Specialist (Level 7)’ by International Technology Institute (ITI) in 2002 in recognizing his expertise in image processing and distributed computing. He is in the editorial boards of six international journals including ‘Inter-national Journal of Computational Intelligence’, ‘International Journal of Intelligent Technology’ and ‘International Journal of Signal Processing’. He has recently been invited to give keynote speeches at International Workshop on Image Compression and Image Processing (WICAP2006), International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV2006), and International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT2005).