How can you hide the number plates on the cars with Machine Learning

Ilya Sergeev
Nov 5 · 11 min read

Hello, I work in the classified advertisements website Avito. Recently we started covering up the number plates in ads with cars. You can find details of how we’ve done it and a short overview of the different methods below.

The goal

2.5 million cars were sold on Avito in 2018. This staggering number equals to about…

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Ilya Sergeev

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software developer, algorithms enthusiast, machine learning engineer. tw @sergeevii123

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