Chinese_license_plate_detection_recognition

Why we included this project

Chinese plates come in more varieties than most systems expect: single and double-row formats, green new-energy plates, police, embassy, and the special Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau plates. This project handles twelve of those types in one pipeline, combining a YOLOv5 detector with a CRNN-style recognizer to locate the plate and read the characters. The repo ships ready-to-run scripts for images, video, and ONNX inference, so you can test it immediately, and the companion tutorials walk through retraining both models on your own data. That makes it a practical baseline for parking management, toll gates, or traffic enforcement teams that need something working in Chinese rather than a generic ANPR setup.