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By analyzing and investigating parking space information measured by the sensors, reliable detection of sufficient parking spaces can be realized. First, this article discusses the main problems in the process of detecting parking spaces, illustrating the research significance and current research status of parking space detection methods. In addition, it further introduces some parking space detection methods, including free-space-based methods, parking-space-marking-based methods, user-interface-based methods, and infrastructure-based methods, which are all under methods of parking space selection. 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