License Plate Recognition (LPR) systems are critical tools in traffic monitoring, security enforcement, and urban mobility management. Traditional LPR systems often rely on a multi-stage pipeline involving object detection using You Only Look Once (YOLO) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which suffer from limitations such as high resource demands, poor performance in unstructured environments, and the need for large annotated datasets.
arXiv:2607. 03131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern video surveillance systems generate far more video streams than human operators can effectively monitor, making automated analysis essential for timely detection of security events.
By Estera Dumitru, Stelian Sp\^inu
arXiv:2608.29929v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vehicle attribute recognition is an important task in intelligent transportation systems, particularly when Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
By Alexandre V. Delazeri, Gabriel E. Lima, Eduil Nascimento Jr, Rayson Laroca, David Menotti
arXiv:2609.01584v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vehicle attribute analysis is a key component of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), supporting applications such as vehicle identification, traf...
By Sergio M. Silva Jr., Otavio T. Remer, Gabriel E. Lima, Lucas Wojcik, Rayson Laroca, David Menotti
License plate character detection is a crucial component of intelligent transportation systems, where high accuracy and computational efficiency are required for real-time deployment. Although recent deep learning-based methods have substantially improved detection performance, many high-accuracy models rely on large-scale architectures that incur substantial computational overhead, limiting their applicability to resource-constrained devices.
arXiv:2608.29759v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We present SynCrash, a multi-stage pipeline for zero-shot accident detection, spatial localization, and collision-type classification in fixed-view C...
By Arkya Jyoti Bagchi, Ritul Jangir, Varun Raskar
arXiv:2608.31107v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The advent of foundation models have enabled a new era in zero-shot classification. Yet, key challenges persist. Despite their impressive generalizatio...
By Lucas Wojcik, Gabriel E. Lima, Sergio M. Silva Jr., Eduil Nascimento Jr., David Menotti
The paper surveys one‑stage object detectors for autonomous driving, covering the evolution from early models like YOLOv1 and SSD to recent real‑time architectures such as YOLOv10 and anchor‑free detectors like FCOS and CenterNet. It compares these methods on design choices, feature‑fusion strategies, loss functions, deployment trade‑offs, and benchmark performance, while also summarizing datasets, evaluation metrics, open challenges, and future research directions. The survey emphasizes how one‑stage detectors balance speed, accuracy, efficiency, and robustness, noting the gap between benchmark results and dependable real‑world performance.
By Jonel Roman, Ryan Sirjue, Peter Nguyen, Daniel Krutky, Juan Jesus, Sudip Dhakal
arXiv:2606. 03748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time vision demands models that are accurate, efficient, and simple to deploy across diverse hardware.
By Glenn Jocher, Jing Qiu, Mengyu Liu, Shuai Lyu, Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Muhammet Esat Kalfaoglu
The paper introduces a multi‑camera computer vision system that computes Post‑Encroachment Time (PET) in real time to assess intersection safety. Using four synchronized cameras and YOLOv11 segmentation on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier devices, vehicle detections are mapped to a unified bird’s‑eye view and processed with a pixel‑level PET algorithm to generate high‑resolution heatmaps. The system records PET data in an SQL database and demonstrates real‑time throughput (2.68 FPS) with 800 × 800 heatmaps, validating a scalable, decentralized approach for high‑resolution intersection safety evaluation.
By Shounak Ray Chaudhuri, Arash Jahangiri, Christopher Paolini
The advent of foundation models have enabled a new era in zero-shot classification. Yet, key challenges persist. Despite their impressive generalization power that leverages the immense pre-training k...
The paper presents a smartphone-based system that uses computer vision to automatically estimate vehicle speed and identify vehicles by license plate, make/model, and color. Experiments on a Brazilian dataset and real-world recordings in Austin, Texas show moderate recognition rates: 46% for license plates, 60.8% for color, 48.6% for make, and 16.89% for make/model. The study also discusses legal, technological, and practical considerations for deploying such smartphone recordings in traffic enforcement.
By Keya Li, Jahnavi Malagavalli, Lamha Goel, Tong Wang, Kara M. Kockelman