Need help in License Plate Recognition System

Hi,

My project is a license plate recognition system. It consists of two modules, the first one is a license plate detection & tracking module, which consists of the camera to receive input and in this part, a portion of image processing is done, that is the license plate area is detected from the input image and send the reduced image to a server using wireless internet, further processing like character recognition from the received image are done on the server, which is the second module.

This is a brief description of the project that i am planning to do.

The problem is that i am not much aware about the hardware that are appropriate (needed) for the first module of this project.

Can anybody please help me on which micro controllers or microprocessors are appropriate for this project for image processing (reducing images to the portion of the license plate area) and wireless internet communication (sending that image to a server via wireless internet).

Kindly share with me, if anybody have links of resources related to this project (mainly hardware part)

Thanks