Empty Lot

Right now, I'm thinking that there will be two components to my vacant parking space detection system: count the number of parking spaces in the camera's field of view, and detect the number of cars occupying spaces.

To help create a solution to the problem of counting the number of parking spaces, I took a few pictures of the parking lot at 1am when the lot was empty. If the lot were nearly full, counting parking spaces could be a fairly difficult problem for a computer since large trucks and vans could block the view of the lines or of whole parking spots. So I took a few pictures of the lot when it was empty to make my life a little easier.