Vision-Based Open-Space Parking Management System Using YOLOv10
Abstract
Efficient parking management has become a critical challenge in modern urban environments and large facilities, such as shopping malls, university campuses, and public spaces. Due to physical insufficiency and the inefficient use of parking lots, the ever-increasing demand for parking spaces cannot be adequately addressed. The proposed system provides real-time monitoring of parking spaces by leveraging existing surveillance camera infrastructure and advanced computer vision techniques. Visual data obtained from video streams are processed at a reduced frame rate to ensure real-time performance, and parking space occupancy is detected using a YOLOv10-X–based object detection model retrained on a custom dataset. The dataset consists of images collected from real-world parking lots under diverse environmental conditions, including different lighting scenarios, weather conditions, and camera viewpoints, and is annotated into two classes: occupied and vacant. Experimental evaluations conducted on multiple real-world video scenarios demonstrate robust performance, achieving overall accuracy values ranging from 92.4% to 99.4%, with precision and recall scores consistently above 90%. These results indicate that the proposed system is a scalable, cost-effective, and reliable solution for real-time parking space monitoring in urban environments.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence (Other)
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Bermal Aratoğlu
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0009-0001-8242-5648
Türkiye
Buğra Çelebi
0009-0000-5705-2678
Türkiye
Ahmet Özmen
0000-0003-2267-2206
Türkiye
Publication Date
January 30, 2026
Submission Date
July 17, 2025
Acceptance Date
December 30, 2025
Published in Issue
Year 2026 Volume: 2 Number: 1