Car Parking Space Detection Project

This project demonstrates a simple car parking space detection system using OpenCV and cvzone. It allows you to mark parking spaces on a static image, and then it detects the occupancy of these spaces in a video feed.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Installation
• Usage
• Files and Folders
• Contributing
• License
• Credits

Overview

The main goal of this project is to detect and monitor car parking spaces. It consists of two main parts:

1. parkingspacepicker.py: This Python script allows you to manually select parking space coordinates on a static image (carParkImg.png). You can left-click to mark parking spaces and right-click to remove them. The coordinates are saved in a file named CarParkPos using pickle.

2. main.py: This Python script reads the saved parking space coordinates and processes a video feed (carPark.mp4) to detect the occupancy of parking spaces. It displays the video with marked parking spaces and updates the count of free spaces in real-time.

Installation

1. Clone this repository to your local machine:

   git clone [https://github.com/harshbafnaa/car-parking-detection.git](https://github.com/thinkrobotics/Live-Smart-Parking-Detection-System.git)

2. Install the required dependencies, including OpenCV and cvzone:

   pip install opencv-python-headless
   pip install numpy
   pip install cvzone

3. Ensure you have the following files in your project folder:

   • carPark.mp4 (video file)
   • carParkImg.png (static image of the parking lot)
   • parkingspacepicker.py
   • main.py

Usage

1. Run parkingspacepicker.py to mark the parking spaces on the static image. Left-click to add parking spaces and right-click to remove them. The coordinates will be saved in CarParkPos.

2. Run main.py to start processing the video feed and detecting parking space occupancy. The video will display with marked parking spaces and a count of free spaces.

Files and Folders

• carPark.mp4: Input video file containing the parking lot footage.
• carParkImg.png: Static image of the parking lot for marking parking spaces.
• parkingspacepicker.py: Script to select and save parking space coordinates.
• main.py: Script for processing the video and detecting parking space occupancy.
• CarParkPos: Binary file containing saved parking space coordinates (created by parkingspacepicker.py).

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome! If you have any ideas, improvements, or bug fixes, please create a pull request. Feel free to open issues for discussions or feature requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Credits

• This project was created by [Dhruv Khatter]