A New Approach for Counting Passersby Utilizing Space-Time Images
Understanding the number of people and the flow of
the persons is useful for efficient promotion of the institution
managements and company-s sales improvements. This paper
introduces an automated method for counting passerby using virtualvertical
measurement lines. The process of recognizing a passerby is
carried out using an image sequence obtained from the USB camera.
Space-time image is representing the human regions which are
treated using the segmentation process. To handle the problem of
mismatching, different color space are used to perform the template
matching which chose automatically the best matching to determine
passerby direction and speed. A relation between passerby speed and
the human-pixel area is used to distinguish one or two passersby. In
the experiment, the camera is fixed at the entrance door of the hall in
a side viewing position. Finally, experimental results verify the
effectiveness of the presented method by correctly detecting and
successfully counting them in order to direction with accuracy of
97%.
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[1] K. Terada and K. Atsuta, Automatic Generation of Passerby Record
Images Using Internet Camera, Electronics and Communications in
Japan, Vol. 92, No. 11, 2009.
[2] Byrne, John A.; Gerdes, Lindsey (November 28, 2005). "The Man
Who Invented Management". BusinessWeek.. Retrieved November
2, 2009.
[3] NPA White Paper: http://www.npa.gov.jp/hakusho.
[4] K. Terada, D. Yoshida, S. Oe and J. Yamaguchi. A counting method
of the number of passing people using a stereo camera, IEEE Proc. of
Industrial Electronics Conf., Vol. 3, pp.1318-1323, 1999.
[5] K. Hashimoto, K. Morinaka, N. Yoshiike, C. Kawaguchi, S.
Matsueda, People count system using multi-sensing application,
1997 International conference on solid state sensors and actuators, 0-
7803-3829-4,1997.
[6] K. Terada, D. Yoshida, S. Oe, and J. Yamaguchi, A method of
counting the passing people by using the stereo images, International
conference on image processing, 0-7803-5467-2,1999.
[7] K. Terada and K. Matsubara, A Method for Counting Multidirection
Passerby by Using Circular Space-time Image, IEEJ Trans.EIS, Vol.
129, No. 6, 2009.
[8] T. Matsuyama, T. Wada, H. Habe and K. Tanahashi, Background
subtraction under varying illumination. Trans, IEICE 2001; J84-D-II:
2201-2211.
[9] G. Linda Shapiro and C. George Stockman (2001): "Computer
Vision", pp 279-325, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall.
[10] Brunelli R., 2009. Template Matching Techniques in Computer
Vision: Theory and Practice, Wiley.
[11] John Watkinson (2008). The art of digital video. Focal Press. p. 272
[12] Engineering Guideline EG 28, "Annotated Glossary of Essential
Terms for Electronic Production," SMPTE, 1993.
[13] Buchsbaum, Walter H. Color TV Servicing, third edition. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1975.
[14] Edwin Paul J. Tozer (2004). Broadcast Engineer's Reference Book.
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the persons is useful for efficient promotion of the institution
managements and company-s sales improvements. This paper
introduces an automated method for counting passerby using virtualvertical
measurement lines. The process of recognizing a passerby is
carried out using an image sequence obtained from the USB camera.
Space-time image is representing the human regions which are
treated using the segmentation process. To handle the problem of
mismatching, different color space are used to perform the template
matching which chose automatically the best matching to determine
passerby direction and speed. A relation between passerby speed and
the human-pixel area is used to distinguish one or two passersby. In
the experiment, the camera is fixed at the entrance door of the hall in
a side viewing position. Finally, experimental results verify the
effectiveness of the presented method by correctly detecting and
successfully counting them in order to direction with accuracy of
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