Parking space number detection with multi‐branch convolution attention

Abstract

AbstractWith the increase of large shopping malls, there are many large parking spaces in complex environments, which increases the difficulty of finding vehicles in such environments. To upgrade the consumer's experience, some car manufacturers have proposed detecting parking space numbers in parking spaces. The detection of parking space number in parking spaces in complex environments has problems such as the diversified background of parking space numbers, tilted direction of parking space numbers, and small parking space number scale. Since no scholar has proposed a high‐performance method for such problems, a parking space number detection model based on the multi‐branch convolutional attention is presented. Firstly, using ResNet50 as the backbone network, a multi‐branch convolutional structure is proposed in the backbone network, which aims to process and fuse the feature map through three parallel branches, and enhance the network to represent ability information by convolutional attention, learn global features to selectively strengthen the features containing helpful information, and improve the ability of the model to detect the parking space number area. Secondly, a high‐level feature enhancement unit is designed to adjust the features channel by channel, obtain more spatial correlation, and reduce the loss of information in the process of feature map generation. The data results of the model on the parking space number dataset CCAG show that the precision, recall, and F‐measure are 84.8%, 84.6%, and 84.7%, respectively, which has certain advantages for parking space number detection.