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To improve the robustness and effectiveness for detecting free parking spaces, we propose a LiDAR-based parking sensing system, which contains multi-modules, i.e., perception, free space parking lots’ construction, parking space tracking and obstacle detection. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our LiDAR-based parking sensing system can not only predict free parking spaces at a long distance, but also can achieve superior performance in terms of recall rate and accuracy of detected parking spaces. Moreover, our proposed LiDAR-based parking sensing system can achieve a significant gain over the ultrasonic-based one. Therefore, our proposed system can act an effective solution for detecting free parking slots at a long distance in the field of autonomous driving.
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Yang, W., Li, D., Xu, W. et al. A LiDAR-Based Parking Slots Detection System. Int.J Automot. Technol. 25, 331–338 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12239-024-00027-5
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