Open AccessTowards a fully automated car parking system
Author(s) -
Mahmood Zahid,
Haneef Ossama,
Muhammad Nazeer,
Khattak Shahid
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iet intelligent transport systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.579
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1751-9578
pISSN - 1751-956X
DOI - 10.1049/iet-its.2018.5021
Subject(s) - ticket , automation , parking guidance and information , parking lot , computer science , feature (linguistics) , payment , feature extraction , face (sociological concept) , face detection , image processing , facial recognition system , real time computing , engineering , artificial intelligence , computer security , transport engineering , image (mathematics) , mechanical engineering , social science , linguistics , philosophy , civil engineering , sociology , world wide web
Currently, payment at most car parking‐lots is carried out in the following manner: a ticket machine at entrance prints a ticket with a bar‐code for each car entering the parking‐lot. This ticket is later scanned at a payment terminal to determine the amount to be paid. The procedure can be automated using face detection and recognition technology. This automation can help with the issue of ticket loss/car theft. This study describes an automated car parking system. The proposed system consists of a camera installed at the entrance/exit of the parking‐lot. Frames are continuously acquired by the camera. If there is a detected face, it is registered in the database. When a driver is leaving, the face image is captured again at the exit of parking‐lot and compared in the database to conclude the identity. The system at the parking entrance/exit is composed of the following processing modules: (i) image acquisition, (ii) vehicle and face detection, and (iii) feature extraction that also includes a feature comparison/classification module for face recognition. The authors propose suitable algorithms for each module and carry out ad‐hoc experiments to check the feasibility of the proposed system.