A Parking Space Detection System

• Main Authors: Han-Yu Lin, 林漢佑
• Other Authors: Tsao-Yeh Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34810000079350810740

碩士 === 明新科技大學 === 電子工程研究所 === 101 === A parking space detection system is proposed in this thesis. The system mainly consists of three parts. The first part, using digital cameras to detect the position of the vehicle, this method combines the benefits of low cost and eliminating the shortcoming of complexity for conventional sensor-based construction. The second part is license plate recognition. The license plate fonts and numbers are captured from an unknown image and it can automatically distinguish and query the parking location of official and special vehicles. The third is vehicle guidance that through the appropriate indicator lights to guide the owners can reach their parking spaces. In Taiwan, according to “2011 Survey & Summary Analysis of Private Automobile Usage” analyzed by the Ministry of Transportation and Statistics Department, the average time taken is 9.4 minutes for a drivers to looking for a parking space near home. By country & city classification, the longest is 14.0 minutes for Taipei which is higher 2.5 & 5.6 minutes than New Taipei & Taichung cities, respectively. Moreover, the parking space shortage issue often occurs in airports, hospitals, shopping centers and public / private parking areas, it is very difficult to find a parking space in these crowded parkings. Therefore, the enhancement and improvement of parking management, increasing utilization, effectively control and reducing administrative costs become a major and important topic.