Ian White wrote:
Pete Verdon wrote:
nightjar cpb@ wrote:

The ones I saw yesterday were just like that, some of them at quite
oblique angles to the traffic. I wonder whether it is important that
they get a picture that would be legible to the human eye or whether
it is all down to clever software.

As far as I know we're still some way from having software that's as
good as the human eye/brain, let alone better. If a person can't read
the plate a computer isn't going to be able to.

You're forgetting the time constraint. ANPR equipment can snap an
oncoming vehicle, identify and zoom into the number plate area, and then
read it and be onto the next vehicle, all before you or I have had time
to say "Uh?"

Not forgetting the time aspect - ignoring it as irrelevant to the
question. Colin wondered whether the software was able to analyse images
taken at such an adverse angle that a human would be unable to read the
plate; I was giving my opinion that it was not. Time doesn't come into that.

Clearly where time (really, throughput) is an issue, the computer wins
as you say.

Pete