Object Monitoring System and Methods

In one aspect of the present disclosure, an object monitoring system for a secured area is provided. The object monitoring system includes an image sensor operable to capture an image of the secured area and a memory configured to store a machine learning algorithm trained to identify a vehicle in the secured area, the machine learning algorithm including feature maps of training images captured by the image sensor. The object monitoring system further includes a processor operably coupled to the image sensor and the memory, the processor configured to calculate a feature descriptor of the image and to utilize the machine learning algorithm and the image of the secured area to determine whether a vehicle is present in the secured area by determining a correlation between the feature descriptor of the image and the feature maps of the training images.