Parking Assist using Convolution Neural Networks

Abstract

Parking vehicles are one of the most frustrating tasks that people face these days. Locating an available parking space is a huge headache especially in urban areas. This paper aims to design one such parking system which, in many ways reduces the hassles of parking. The paper presents a system where a Machine Learning model, Convolution Neural Network(CNN) is used to classify parking slots in a parking space into vacant and filled slots. In order to optimize the task of classification, the method of Transfer Learning is implemented in the paper. The problem of parking stands not only limited to causing inconvenience to the drivers, but also escalates to much larger and extensive problems, affecting a lot more people the environment. Hence it is very important to have a system is used parking system in place. The model proposed in the paper sends across parking information to a driver well in advance, there by greatly reducing the waiting time for the vehicle.