how to use matlab?

i as student at uitm and i have final year project that the title is car plate identifier using auto gate system.my project is use matlab software to create that project.so how do to first after install the matlab?.i need do the extraction,segmentation and recognition about the car plate image of low lighting.hope u will help me

[Adam]

Have you been to the Matlab home page and followed links to documentation about getting started?

Coming to the Matlab Answers forum and simply asking the equivalent of "How do I use Matlab?" (and with a 'c++' tag???) is far too wide a question to ask.

At best someone will take a few seconds more than I did to actually provide you links to the getting started help which you should be able to find yourself easily.

[Stephen23]

By typing MATLAB car numberplate into an internet search engine I got 63,400 hits, and a search for MATLAB install got over one million... did you read any of those?

You should read this too:

http://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/6200-tutorial-how-to-ask-a-question-on-answers-and-get-a-fast-answer

[KBK007]

This question is too broad and please follow Stephen's answer as a first step. It is crucial to be direct to the point when asking a question in this forum, this way you would contribute effectively in the MATLAB community.

Second step is maybe going through the MATLAB Documentation, I can not go to a C++ forum and tell them, abra kadabra I need to be a C++ master. Therefore it is important to do baby steps. Try to start by programing small stuff, like fibonacci numbers to get the MATLAB logic juices flowing.

Third step, after getting to know MATLAB and its basics you should go through its image processing toolbox and its machine learning toolbox to better guide you with this. I do not want to scare you, but it seems you are biting more than you can chew. If you do not have the sufficient requirements and don't have time for MATLAB, maybe that final year project is not for you...

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

For general programming/training help, try this link: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/8026-best-way-s-to-master-matlab

For a tutorial on image segmentation, try my File Exchange: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=authorid%3A31862

For info on OCR for LPR (License Plate Recognition), try this: http://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ref/ocr.html#bt548t1-2_1