License plate recognition method and device

The invention provides a license plate recognition method and device, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a to-be-recognized image of a to-be-recognized license plate, sequentially carrying out the local feature extraction processing and global type perception processing of the to-be-recognized image, obtaining the global feature of the to-be-recognized license plate, and enabling the global feature to be used for representing the relation between any two pixel points in the to-be-recognized image, and according to the global feature and the parallel reading sequence, performing parallel character perception processing on the to-be-recognized image to obtain the character enhancement feature of the to-be-recognized license plate, and predicting the license plate information of the to-be-recognized license plate according to the character enhancement feature so as to improve the license plate recognition efficiency and improve the license plate recognition accuracy and reliability. 本公开提供一种车牌识别方法和装置，包