According to another aspect of the disclosure, there is provided a method for identifying license plate tampering, which comprises the steps of:
obtaining a vehicle image, and then obtaining a license plate number image in the vehicle image; and
determining whether the license plate of the vehicle is tampered according to the license plate number image and a preset standard license plate number image.
The step of determining whether the license plate of the vehicle is tampered according to the license plate number image and the preset standard license plate number image may comprise:
dividing the license plate number image into different regions according to characters; and
comparing a color, form and texture of a character in each of the regions with a color, form and texture of a character in the preset standard license plate number image, determining the license plate of the vehicle to be a tampered plate when at least one of the color, form and texture of the character in any of the regions is different from the corresponding at least one of the color, form and texture of the character in the standard license plate number image, and determining the license plate of the vehicle to be a normal plate when the color, form and texture of the character in each of the regions are the same with the color, form and texture of the character in the standard license plate number image.
Before the step of determining whether the license plate of the vehicle is tampered according to the license plate number image and the preset standard license plate number image, the method may further comprise the step of: