An Auxiliary Parking Method Based on Automotive Millimeter wave SAR

Finding a suitable parking position often leads to much traffic pressure and time consumption in a busy parking lot. An auxiliary parking method based on automotive millimeter wave SAR is proposed in this paper. Firstly, Maximally Stable Extremal Region (MSER) method is utilized to extract the candidate regions occupied by parked vehicles from the millimeter wave SAR images. Then, in order to eliminate the false alarm candidate regions, we employ the morphological filter and utilize the centroid position to further refine the candidate regions. Thirdly, the difference in width-to-height ratio of the candidate regions is exploited to distinguish the parking directions of the cars. After that, the available parking spaces are located according to the parking direction. Finally, further remove the spaces occupied by obstacles, and plan reasonable parking routes. Experimental results based on measured data show that the proposed method has outstanding detection and parking route planning performance in different scenes.