II 工程硕士学位论文 Abstract The vehicle license automatic recognition system is developed in recent years based on the image and the character recognition technology intellectualization traffic control system, and it is a hot spot in patterns recognition applied research domain both at home and abroad at present, becoming an important research topic in the information processing technology. This system is mainly made up of vehicle license picture gathering and the pretreatment, the vehicle license region localization and withdraws, the vehicle license character division and the recognition .The article has made a quite comprehensive elaboration about the vehicle license localization and the new algorithm of character recognition, the new technology as well as the system overall design. In view of existing research situation at home and abroad, I have made thorough research about two essential technologies: the vehicles license region localization and the license char