Vacant parking area estimation through background subtraction and transience map analysis
Open Access
- 1 November 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in IET Intelligent Transport Systems
- Vol. 9 (9), 835-841
- https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-its.2014.0090
Abstract
A method for estimating the dimensions of non-delimited free parking areas by using a static surveillance camera is proposed. The proposed method is specially designed to tackle the main challenges of urban scenarios (multiple moving objects, outdoor illumination conditions and occlusions between vehicles) with no training. The core of this work is the temporal analysis of the video frames to detect the occupancy variation of the parking areas. Two techniques are combined: background subtraction using a mixture of Gaussians to detect and track vehicles and the creation of a transience map to detect the parking and leaving of vehicles. The authors demonstrate that the proposed method yields satisfactory estimates on three real scenarios while being a low computational cost solution that can be applied in any kind of parking area covered by a single camera.Keywords
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