Smart parking system based on image processing

This paper proposed a smart parking system that helps drivers in seeking out available parking slots based on image processing. With the increased number of vehicles which leads to the parking congestion, finding an empty parking spaces become a time-consuming task for many drivers specially during rush hours. From this comes the importance of implementing a novel camera-based system that facilities the parking issue to a huge level by detecting the available parking spaces in real-time. The proposed system counts the number of empty slots and detects the vehicles using a single webcam without the need of changing the parking infrastructure. A webcam is positioned in a high place that it can see all the parking slots in the parking area. An image of the parking area is taken as a reference and then all parking slots are selected. A webcam is used to record a video of the parking area while vehicles enter and exit. Both the image and the video are used to determine whether or not the parking space is available. The paper shows the implementation of the proposed system from scratch and then presents the results. The challenges of developing such a solution are also mentioned in addition to possible enhancements for future work.