Patent ID: 9542609
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. An image-processing method for training a parked vehicle detector, said method comprising: capturing video data of at least one parking site utilizing at least one image-capturing unit associated with a parked vehicle detector training system for training said parked vehicle detector, said video data including an image of at least one vehicle and at least one parking space within an effective field of view; collecting a plurality of positive training samples from said video data captured by said at least one image-capturing unit based on a combination of data including data provided by an automated image analysis and human-input auxiliary information provided by a crowd-sourcing unit that stores images and information with respect to a final position of said at least one vehicle in a collected positive training sample collector; collecting a plurality of negative training samples from said video data based on said automated image analyses with respect to said captured video data; and utilizing said plurality of positive training samples and said plurality of negative training samples to train, re-train, and update said parked vehicle detector with respect to said at least one parking site for use in managing parking at said at least one parking site.