diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index e898647..1a777aa 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ add_subdirectory(tests)
 ENDIF()
 
 add_subdirectory(openalpr)
+add_subdirectory(statedetection)
 add_subdirectory(video)
 
 if (WITH_BINDING_JAVA) 
diff --git a/src/misc_utilities/CMakeLists.txt b/src/misc_utilities/CMakeLists.txt
index 969cb9d..8c904cd 100644
--- a/src/misc_utilities/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/misc_utilities/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ ADD_EXECUTABLE(openalpr-utils-benchmark
 )
 TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(openalpr-utils-benchmark
     ${OPENALPR_LIB}
+    statedetection
     support
     pthread
     ${OpenCV_LIBS} 
@@ -72,4 +73,3 @@ ENDIF()
 install (TARGETS openalpr-utils-prepcharsfortraining DESTINATION bin)
 install (TARGETS openalpr-utils-tagplates DESTINATION bin)
 install (TARGETS openalpr-utils-calibrate DESTINATION bin)
-
diff --git a/src/misc_utilities/benchmarks/benchmark.cpp b/src/misc_utilities/benchmarks/benchmark.cpp
index ecde796..fa71ce2 100644
--- a/src/misc_utilities/benchmarks/benchmark.cpp
+++ b/src/misc_utilities/benchmarks/benchmark.cpp
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ int main( int argc, const char** argv )
     alpr.setDetectRegion(true);
 
     Detector* plateDetector = createDetector(&config);
-    StateIdentifier stateIdentifier(&config);
+    StateDetector stateDetector(country, config.runtimeBaseDir);
     OCR ocr(&config);
 
     vector<double> endToEndTimes;
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ int main( int argc, const char** argv )
 	  PipelineData pipeline_data(frame, regions[z].rect, &config);
 	  
           getTimeMonotonic(&startTime);
-	  
-          stateIdentifier.recognize(&pipeline_data);
+
+          //stateDetector.detect(&pipeline_data);
           getTimeMonotonic(&endTime);
           double stateidTime = diffclock(startTime, endTime);
           cout << "\tRegion " << z << ": State ID time: " << stateidTime << "ms." << endl;
diff --git a/src/misc_utilities/classifychars.cpp b/src/misc_utilities/classifychars.cpp
index fa0b58f..3d7e61c 100644
--- a/src/misc_utilities/classifychars.cpp
+++ b/src/misc_utilities/classifychars.cpp
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 
 #include "postprocess/regexrule.h"
 #include "licenseplatecandidate.h"
-#include "stateidentifier.h"
 #include "utility.h"
 #include "support/filesystem.h"
 #include "ocr.h"
diff --git a/src/misc_utilities/sortstate.cpp b/src/misc_utilities/sortstate.cpp
index 7db2a33..d963176 100644
--- a/src/misc_utilities/sortstate.cpp
+++ b/src/misc_utilities/sortstate.cpp
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 
 #include "licenseplatecandidate.h"
-#include "stateidentifier.h"
+#include "../statedetection/state_detector.h"
 #include "utility.h"
 #include "support/filesystem.h"
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ using namespace alpr;
 // Given a directory full of pre-cropped images, identify the state that each image belongs to.
 // This is used to sort our own positive image database as a first step before grabbing characters to use to train the OCR.
 
-bool detectPlate( StateIdentifier* identifier, Mat frame);
+bool detectPlate( StateDetector* identifier, Mat frame);
 
 int main( int argc, const char** argv )
 {
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ int main( int argc, const char** argv )
   }
 
   Config config("us");
-  StateIdentifier identifier(&config);
+  StateDetector identifier(config.country, config.runtimeBaseDir);
 
   if (DirectoryExists(outDir.c_str()) == false)
   {
@@ -79,22 +79,17 @@ int main( int argc, const char** argv )
         cout << fullpath << endl;
         frame = imread( fullpath.c_str() );
 
-	PipelineData pipeline_data(frame, Rect(0, 0, frame.cols, frame.rows), &config);
-        identifier.recognize(&pipeline_data);
 
-        if (pipeline_data.region_confidence <= 20)
+        vector<StateCandidate> candidates = identifier.detect(frame.data, frame.elemSize(), frame.cols, frame.rows);
+
+        if (candidates.size() > 0)
         {
-	  pipeline_data.region_code = "zz";
-          pipeline_data.region_confidence = 100;
-        }
-        else
-	{
-          cout << pipeline_data.region_confidence << " : " << pipeline_data.region_code;
+          cout << candidates[0].confidence << " : " << candidates[0].state_code;
 
           ostringstream convert;   // stream used for the conversion
           convert << i;      // insert the textual representation of 'Number' in the characters in the stream
 
-          string copyCommand = "cp \"" + fullpath + "\" " + outDir + pipeline_data.region_code + convert.str() + ".png";
+          string copyCommand = "cp \"" + fullpath + "\" " + outDir + candidates[0].state_code + convert.str() + ".png";
           system( copyCommand.c_str() );
           waitKey(50);
           //while ((char) waitKey(50) != 'c') { }
@@ -104,4 +99,4 @@ int main( int argc, const char** argv )
   }
 }
 
-bool detectPlate( StateIdentifier* identifier, Mat frame);
+bool detectPlate( StateDetector* identifier, Mat frame);
diff --git a/src/openalpr/CMakeLists.txt b/src/openalpr/CMakeLists.txt
index 6ec14b9..e8556e6 100644
--- a/src/openalpr/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/openalpr/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ set(lpr_source_files
  detection/detectormorph.cpp
  licenseplatecandidate.cpp
  utility.cpp
- stateidentifier.cpp
- featurematcher.cpp
  ocr.cpp
  postprocess/postprocess.cpp
  postprocess/regexrule.cpp
@@ -51,6 +49,7 @@ set_target_properties(openalpr PROPERTIES SOVERSION ${OPENALPR_MAJOR_VERSION})
 
 TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(openalpr
   support
+  statedetection
   ${OpenCV_LIBS}
   ${Tesseract_LIBRARIES}
 )