License Plate Privacy Blurring

computer vision · Jun 2026 · Author

A YOLOv8n plate detector that drives a privacy blur, at about 4 ms per image on a T4.

Result

0.78

mAP@0.5 on a YOLOv8n plate detector

Precision 0.83 and recall 0.74, at about 4 ms per image on a T4.

8,740 labelled boxes

Results

Validation metrics for the YOLOv8n plate detector.
MetricValue
mAP@0.50.78
Precision0.83
Recall0.74
Inferenceabout 4 ms per image, T4
Labelled boxes8,740

Stack

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • YOLOv8
  • OpenCV
  • EasyOCR

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