License plate image privacy removal method and device, storage medium and program product

The invention relates to the technical field of image privacy removal, and discloses a license plate image privacy removal method and device, a storage medium and a program product, and the license plate image privacy removal method comprises the steps: carrying out the recognition of a license plate image, and obtaining an initial character image; determining a target character based on the initial character; based on the initial character image, obtaining a target character image including a target character, the shape information of the target character image being the same as the shape information of the initial character image; performing gray processing on the target character image to obtain a target character gray image; obtaining color information of the initial character image; adding the color information into the target character grayscale image to obtain a target character updated image; and replacing the initial character image in the license plate image with the target character update image to