An electronic device that captures a plurality of images by an image sensor. The electronic device includes control circuitry that generates a plurality of synthetic license plate images for each original license plate templates that are associated with a first hotlist of vehicles. The control circuitry generates a first augmented dataset of synthetic license plate images by an image transformation on the generated plurality of synthetic license plate images. The control circuitry trains a first neural network model using the generated first augmented dataset as a training dataset. The control circuitry detects a first vehicle in the captured plurality of images based on the extracted first license plate image portion and the trained first neural network model. The extracted first license plate image portion includes a first license plate identifier in the first hotlist of vehicles.