STEGANOGRAPHY
Hiding elements inside an Image.
Steganography is the process of hiding a secret message within a larger one in such a way that someone can not know the presence or contents of the hidden message.
The purpose of Steganography is to maintain secret communication between two parties. Unlike cryptography, which conceals the contents of a secret message, steganography conceals the very fact that a message is communicated.
VEHICLE NUMBER PLATE DETECTION
This helps us to detect the number on the number plate of a vehicle..
Here for locating the boards I used two different approaches:-
1. DEEP LEARNING + OPENCV Approach - Trained VGG16 model to locate the Number Plate Location with the topx,topy,bottomx and bottomy locations of each image in the Training dataset.
2. OPENCV Approach - Converted Images from RGB to Grayscale, Detected edges and contours.
After detecting the Board Locations by both the approaches I cropped the Number Plate portion and used Pytesseract Image to String and detected the Number on the Number Plate..