Journal Pre-proof Graph Attention Network for Detecting License Plates in Crowded Street Scenes Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara , Swati Kanchan , Ramachandra Raghavendra , Umapada Pal , Tong Lu , Daniel Lopresti PII: S0167-8655(20)30354-8 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2020.09.018 Reference: PATREC 8037 To appear in: Pattern Recognition Letters Received date: 22 April 2020 Revised date: 14 August 2020 Accepted date: 20 September 2020 Please cite this article as: Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara , Swati Kanchan , Ramachandra Raghavendra , Umapada Pal , Tong Lu , Daniel Lopresti , Graph Attention Network for Detecting License Plates in Crowded Street Scenes, Pattern Recognition Letters (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2020.09.018 This is a PDF ﬁle of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the deﬁnitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review before it is published in its ﬁnal form, but we are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production process, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. © 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.