People Counting in Transport Vehicles

Counting people from a video stream in a noisy environment is a challenging task. This project aims at developing a counting system for transport vehicles, integrated in a video surveillance product. This article presents a method for the detection and tracking of multiple faces in a video by using a model of first and second order local moments. An iterative process is used to estimate the position and shape of multiple faces in images, and to track them. the trajectories are then processed to count people entering and leaving the vehicle.

• Sebastien Harasse
• Laurent Bonnaud
• Michel Desvignes

• face detection
• tracking
• counting
• local statistics

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