RETRACTED: A smart access control using an efficient license plate location and recognition approach

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).Reason: It has come to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief of Expert Systems with Applications that this article closely resembles “A Real-Time Vehicle License Plate Recognition (LPR) System”, B.-H. Ron, supervised by J. Erez, Available: http://visl.technion.ac.il/projects/2003w24/. The Publisher, Technion, has asked Elsevier to retract the Youssef and AbdelRahman article for using parts of its article without permission. For example: (i) Fig. 2 in the article is identical to the block diagram of the Technion work and includes the algorithm developed by the author; (ii) Fig. 3 in the article is identical to Fig. 2 in the Technion work; (iii) Fig. 20 in the article is identical to Fig. 20 in the Technion work.