ConciseCarNet: convolutional neural network for parking space classification

Abstract

The car is a mode of transportation that brings numerous benefits to the community. As a result, the growth of vehicles is increasing, which has a negative impact. Some of the negative impacts include noise, air pollution, traffic congestion, and the need for parking spaces. Drivers that drive around looking for parking places increase the negative impact as well as boredom and even worry for the driver. Therefore, the driver needs this information on the availability of parking spaces. A convolutional neural network (CNN) using a camera is one of the best methods that can be used to solve this problem. We built a more efficient CNN architecture for classifying parking spaces, which was named ConciseCarNet. ConciseCarNet uses 33 and 11 convolution filters, which cause fewer parameters than previous architectures. ConciseCarNet has two branches, each with a different branch structure. This branch is designed to generate additional feature variations, which will help improve the accuracy. Based on testing, the accuracy of ConciseCarNet2x outperforms the accuracy of mAlexnet, Carnet, EfficientParkingNet, and you look once (YOLO)+MobilNet architectures, which is 99.37%. ConciseCarNet has fewer parameters, file sizes, and floating point operations (FLOPs) compared to other architectures.