A Bayesian hierarchical detection framework for parking space detection

In this paper, a 3-layer Bayesian hierarchical detection framework (BHDF) is proposed for robust parking space detection. In practice, the challenges of the parking space detection problem come from luminance variations, inter- occlusions among cars, and occlusions caused by environmental obstacles. Instead of determining the status of parking spaces one by one, the proposed BHDF framework models the inter-occluded patterns as semantic knowledge and couple local classifiers with adjacency constraints to determine the status of parking spaces in a row-by-row manner. By applying the BHDF to the parking space detection problem, the available parking spaces and the labeling of parked cars can be achieved in a robust and efficient manner. Furthermore, this BHDF framework is generic enough to be used for various kinds of detection and segmentation applications.