The invention discloses a
license plate positioning method based on a traffic monitoring video. The
license plate positioning method specifically comprises the steps of: 1, converting an original image in the traffic monitoring video, converting the original image into a grey-scale image and converting an original
color space into an HSV space; 2, preprocessing the converted image; 3, conducting
edge detection on the preprocessed image; 4, adopting a local threshold method, a global threshold method and a dynamic threshold method comprehensively on the basis of
edge detection, and dividing the image into black and white color regions according to a relation between pixel values and threshold values so as to realize image binarization; 5, adopting expansion, region filling and
corrosion operations in
mathematical morphology after image binarization, realizing region merging and further
noise elimination; 6, subjecting detected edge images to
horizontal projection and
vertical projection in sequence, so as to determine up, down, left and right boundaries of a
license plate; 7, and conducting license plate positioning by means of a
support vector machine after projection confirmation. The license plate positioning method can overcome the problems of
background noise, background similar pattern interference, license plate character discontinuity and the like in the prior art.