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I am using the following code in Matlab R2012a to extract a license plate from a car's photo.
The task is to remove only the plate but I also get many irrelevant images cropped as plates. The code should be able to extract plates disregarding plate dimensions and position. I have to test it on 25 car photos. Currently it only works on some of them(with additional segments extracted of course). How can I correct my code the achieve the goal mentioned?

clc
clear
close all

%Open Image

I = imread('train_plates/25.jpg');
figure, imshow(I);

%Gray Image
Ig = rgb2gray(I);
figure,
subplot(2,2,1), imshow(Ig);


% %Enhancement
Ih = histeq(Ig);
subplot(2,2,2), imshow(Ih);

figure,
subplot(1,2,1), imhist(Ig);
subplot(1,2,2), imhist(Ih);

%Edge Detection
Ie = edge(Ih, 'sobel');
figure, 
subplot(1,2,1), imshow(Ie);

%Dilation
Id = imdilate(Ie, strel('diamond',1));
subplot(1,2,2), imshow(Id);



%Fill
If = imfill(Id,'holes');
figure, imshow(If);



%Find Plate
[lab, n] = bwlabel(If,4);

regions = regionprops(lab, 'All');


regionsCount = size(regions, 1) ;


for i = 1:regionsCount
    region = regions(i);
    RectangleOfChoice = region.BoundingBox;
    PlateExtent = region.Extent;
    
    PlateStartX = fix(RectangleOfChoice(1));
    PlateStartY = fix(RectangleOfChoice(2));
    PlateWidth  = fix(RectangleOfChoice(3));
    PlateHeight = fix(RectangleOfChoice(4));
        
    if PlateWidth >= PlateHeight*3 && PlateExtent >= 0.7
        im2 = imcrop(I, RectangleOfChoice);       
        figure, imshow(im2);
        imwrite(im2,'outPlate.jpg');
    end
end
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