image a first set of image features and extracts from the second sub image a second set of image features the image processor matches the first set of image features to corresponding image features derived from a previously obtained image of a vehicle to produce a first matching score and also matches the second set of image features to corresponding image features derived from a previously obtained image of a vehicle to produce a second matching score the image processor then fuses the first matching score and the second matching score to produce a fused score which indicates whether the at least one image is of the same vehicle as the previously obtained image application_number US 201414761937 A description fig1 is an overview schematic of a system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention a vehicle 102 is imaged by a camera 110 for example when passing a tolling site images from camera 110 are passed to a vehicle matching system 120 which includes an image processor 122 and a database 124 containing obtained vehicles images and or image feature descriptors fig2 illustrates the automated vehicle identification process implemented in the embodiment of fig1 this embodiment uses an image processing technique for identifying distinguishing features of vehicles and thereby identifying and recognizing vehicles based on captured images this technique utilizes visual characteristics of a vehicle to extract unique image feature descriptors which uniquely identify each imaged vehicle.