%0 Electronic Article %A Zahid Mahmood %A Ossama Haneef %A Nazeer Muhammad %A Shahid Khattak %K face image %K entrance prints %K automation %K ticket loss/car theft %K ticket machine %K parking entrance/exit %K parking-lot %K detected face %K bar-code %K car parking-lots %K fully automated car parking system %K payment terminal %K face recognition %K recognition technology %K vehicle %K face detection %X Currently, payment at most car parking-lots is carried out in the following manner: a ticket machine at entrance prints a ticket with a bar-code for each car entering the parking-lot. This ticket is later scanned at a payment terminal to determine the amount to be paid. The procedure can be automated using face detection and recognition technology. This automation can help with the issue of ticket loss/car theft. This study describes an automated car parking system. The proposed system consists of a camera installed at the entrance/exit of the parking-lot. Frames are continuously acquired by the camera. If there is a detected face, it is registered in the database. When a driver is leaving, the face image is captured again at the exit of parking-lot and compared in the database to conclude the identity. The system at the parking entrance/exit is composed of the following processing modules: (i) image acquisition, (ii) vehicle and face detection, and (iii) feature extraction that also includes a feature comparison/classification module for face recognition. The authors propose suitable algorithms for each module and carry out ad-hoc experiments to check the feasibility of the proposed system. %@ 1751-956X %T Towards a fully automated car parking system %B IET Intelligent Transport Systems %D February 2019 %V 13 %N 2 %P 293-302 %I Institution of Engineering and Technology %U https://digital-library.theiet.org/;jsessionid=1gfg1c1d7kxrw.x-iet-live-01content/journals/10.1049/iet-its.2018.5021 %G EN