Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Parking facilities employ gates to manage the use of their space, sometimes requiring vehicles to passthrough a gate upon one or more of entry and exit. As parking facilities transition to more automatedsystems, impl ementing seamless vehicle entry and exit, they may require less or no interventi on fromhuman operators and users of vehicles. While this transition may improve efficiency, it may introducechallenges in identifying the vehicles that enter or exit the space. For example, physical space limitationsin a parking facility may only allow for cameras facing the front of vehicles and environmental facto rs,such as glare, low-light, or weather conditions like snow and mud, may furth er obscure vehicles and theiridentifying information. Additionally, automated p arking management may introduce consequences ofemboldening bad actors to break rules within the parking facility with fewer human eyes present. It isimpractic al, from an implementation and computational efficiency perspective, to outfit p arking facilitieswith myriad cameras and computer vision to detect bad actions, given that continuous monitoring for sucha wide array of potential activities would require enormous amounts of computing power.”
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