# SamLP: A Customized Segment Anything Model for License Plate Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06374 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.06374/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 65 of its 94 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 12 Jan 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 65)

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- [Segment Anything](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.02643/) (2023)
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- [FCOS: Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.01355/) (2019)
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## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [A Survey on LoRA of Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.11046/) (2024)
- [MapSAM: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Automated Feature Detection in Historical Maps](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.06971/) (2024)
- [A Training-Free Framework for Video License Plate Tracking and Recognition with Only One-Shot](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.05729/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

With the emergence of foundation model, this novel paradigm of deep learning has encouraged many powerful achievements in natural language processing and computer vision. There are many advantages of foundation model, such as excellent feature extraction power, mighty generalization ability, great few-shot and zero-shot learning capacity, etc. which are beneficial to vision tasks. As the unique identity of vehicle, different countries and regions have diverse license plate (LP) styles and appearances, and even different types of vehicles have different LPs. However, recent deep learning based license plate detectors are mainly trained on specific datasets, and these limited datasets constrain the effectiveness and robustness of LP detectors. To alleviate the negative impact of limited data, an attempt to exploit the advantages of foundation model is implement in this paper. We customize a vision foundation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM), for LP detection task and propose the first LP detector based on vision foundation model, named SamLP. Specifically, we design a Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) fine-tuning strategy to inject extra parameters into SAM and transfer SAM into LP detection task. And then, we further propose a promptable fine-tuning step to provide SamLP with prompatable segmentation capacity. The experiments show that our proposed SamLP achieves promising detection performance compared to other LP detectors. Meanwhile, the proposed SamLP has great few-shot and zero-shot learning ability, which shows the potential of transferring vision foundation model. The code is available at https://github.com/Dinghaoxuan/SamLP