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IMAGE PROCESSING BASED CAR PARKING

RESERVATION
1Dr.M.Malathi, 2Dr.S.Priya
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Associate Professor, 2Assistant Professor
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Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,
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Bharathiyar College of Engineering & Technology, Karaikal, Puducherry, India
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Abstract : Internet plays a vital role in connecting the surrounding environmental things to the network and made easy to access
those un-internet things from any remote location. It is inevitable for the people to update with the growing technology. This work
represents the major response to user’s reservation action and thus the driver can set aside his own likely parking slot based on the
time and cost function. In this work a Smart Parking System (SPS) is designed which enables the user to find the nearest parking
area using image processing. It mainly focus on reducing time by booking the slot and also it avoids the unnecessary travelling
through filled parking lots in a parking area. Thus it reduces the fuel consumption which in turn reduces carbon footprints in an
atmosphere. This proposed work offer a system for parking reservations and security maintenance in a private car parking field in
an urban metropolis visually.

IndexTerms - Reservation slot, Segmentation, Image Acquisition, Feature Extraction, Display unit.
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I. INTRODUCTION

The analysis and manipulation of a digitized image, especially in order to improve its quality is obtained using image
processing. However, image processing is more accurately defined as a means of translation between the human visual system
and digital image devices. It improves clarity and removes noise and other artifact. The devices can be switched ON/OFF using a
mobile through server (Wi-Fi).
Now a day’s congestion of traffic increases rapidly with the increasing growth of population. With respect to the number of
population the usage of cars also increased. Due to more usage of car the traffic congestion occurred on the road and the finding
of free parking slot takes more time. Hence, we lose a certain quantity of time and made more than 75 to 85 percent of fuel
wastage to find the empty parking slot in parking area.
To solve this problem, we need a special system in the parking area to measure empty space and show the information to the
people who are looking for the empty space. However, a few systems designed previously to avoid time wastage in car parking
area by providing the free slot in a random or pre-allotted slots.
In our proposed system all the user can able to reserve their own likely parking spot. Hence there is no restriction between the
slot reservation and user request. Here the user reserves his parking slot with respect to the visual system framework described.
II. MATERIALS AND METHODS
This system consists of three small blocks and of processing these blocks are built in the software which are shown in the Fig.1.

Acquiring image
System (Reference Difference Image Feature
Initialization Image) in image segmentation Extraction

Acquiring
image
with cars Display output

Figure 1. System Block Diagram

a. System Initialization:
The initial image is captured which is the reference image. The purpose of this block is to identify each and every
parking slot in the image.

b. Image Acquisition:
After the first step, the image will be processed in image acquisition module. Here the steps involved are image capturing and
storing of digital images from the camera.
c. Image segmentation:
The image acquired from the camera is in the form of RGB (red, green, blue or colored images) which is further separated
into RGB channels. Afterwards it is converted into grey scale image and then creates the binary image in the segmentation
module.

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d. Feature Extraction:
Features are extracted from the image in order to differentiate between the images. It is almost used in all vision algorithms.
In image processing, algorithms are used to detect and isolate various desired portions or shapes of digitized images. The camera
and the system is initialized and the procedure to automatically identify the location of every parking lot in the image.
When the system initializes the reference image with no cars parked is captured and this image will act as reference image for
the processing of other images. The image with cars parked are refreshed or changed after certain interval.
In the next block image acquisition is carried out where the images are captured by the camera and this module gets
connected to the system processing unit that runs in MATLAB program.
After the image is captured the system performs the operation of improving the image clarity by the filtering of the noise and
the filtered image is utilized for further processing. In the next module image segmentation is carried out which separates the
required object from the background and differentiates the pixels having nearby values for improving the contrast. The image
captured by camera is subtracted with reference image if there is a change in the image if the change is noticed then the further
processing is carried out to know the changes in the parking lot numbers. The last module is image detection which is used to
determine the cars present in the image.
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
We have implemented with a system which consists of different modules like server, database, user application and parking
slot arrangement. We provide an application to user because of according to Google there are 1.4 billion active android devices
over worldwide. After user must go only onetime for registration with specific Id (using AADHAR CARD No or License No)
using the application then registered user information is sent to the server system and data stored in the database. The parking slot
information is also stored in the database. User can book specific parking slot at the desired space and user will be accessing
specific booked parking slot and park the car. We use MATLAB as software to book the slot as described in the Fig. 2 to 7.

Figure 2. Car Parking Webpage

Figure 3. Reservation Process

Figure 4. Identification Process

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Figure 5. Checking Process

Figure 6. Slot Verification

Figure 7. Booking Slot

This work provides better and efficient way for parking vehicles by detecting the slots available and intimating the same to the
user and is successfully performed.

IV. CONCLUSION
In this system a smart car parking arrangement to attain gentle and efficient usage of car parking area. The conceptualization of
this paper is based on software instead of hardware which makes the system cheap to maintain and implement. This system is
efficient and useful in metropolitan cities. This system can be implemented in to avoid dense traffic in the parking areas like
shopping malls, theaters, tourist spots and other busy areas, thereby cutting time and the use of the fuel and contamination. The
future work could be complimented in providing secure parking and making the system work in various environmental
conditions.
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