Developing a Parking Monitoring System Based on the Analysis of Images from an Outdoor Surveillance Camera

In this paper, we describe a solution for monitoring of parking availability based on computer vision. It allows us to detect and track cars in a parking lot, while collected historical data helps us to predict availability status of parking during the day based on data mining techniques. Parking Monitoring System tracks availability based on an analysis of images from an outdoor surveillance camera and analyzes in real time the state of the parking complex. The system is developed to determine the number and location of available parking places and to inform the drivers. We provide an algorithm for image capture and analysis to recognize a car in a parking lot and to define parking spaces as either reserved or free.