NEURAL NETWORK BASED IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD FOR SMART PARKING

Abstract

With the exponential growth of vehicles on our streets, the need for finding an unoccupied parking spot today could most of the time be problematic, but even more in the coming future. Smart parking solutions have proved to be a helpful approach to facilitate the localization of unoccupied parking spots. In many smart parking solutions, sensors are used to determine the vacancy of a parking spot. i.e use of sensors can provide a highly accurate solution in terms of determining the status of parking lots. However, this is not ideal from a scalability point of view, since the need for installing and maintaining each of the sensors is not considered cost-effective. In the latest years vision based solutions have been considered more when building a smart parking solution, since cameras can easily be installed and used on a large parking area. Furthermore, the use of cameras can provide more advanced solution for finding a vacant parking spot and also for providing the safety of the car on the public parking area. This paper is aimed at the developing a Neural-Network based Image Recognition Method for Smart Parking.