System and method for detecting and identifying container number in real-time

A system for detecting and identifying container number in real-time, comprising:

• a motion detection unit configured to monitor a vehicle carrying one or more containers into or out of a container storage yard, whereby the motion detection unit comprising a first camera, a second camera, a third camera, a fourth camera, a fifth camera, one or more laser sensors, the first camera, the second camera, the third camera, the fourth camera, the fifth camera, and the one or more laser sensors configured to capture one or more containers views;
• a pre-processing module configured to trigger the first camera, the second camera, the third camera, the fourth camera, the fifth camera, and the one or more laser sensors to capture the one or more container views, the pre-processing module configured to transmit one or more containers image data to a computing device through a processing device, whereby the computing device comprising a container number detection module configured to analyze the containers image data to identify the container number and displays the container number on the computing device;
• the container number detection module comprising a visual object detection module configured to detect a container number region in one or more container image frames, the one or more container image frames are identified by the visual object detection module based on a field of view and orientation of the first camera, the second camera, the third camera, the fourth camera, and the fifth camera;
• the visual object detection module configured to crop the container number region situated on the one or more container image frames, the visual object detection module configured to apply two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform to reduce an impact of shadows on one or more container image frames;
• a segmentation and character classification module configured to acquire the container number region as an output from the visual object detection module, whereby the segmentation and character classification module configured to segment each character situated in the container number region using one or more computer vision techniques and classifies each character using a neural network technique, the segmentation and character classification module configured to arrange the characters in an order based on relative positions of the characters to obtain the container number;
• a post-processing module configured to generate the container number by aggregating the output from series of the one or more container image frames captured by the motion detection unit.