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A people counting method based on head detection and tracking

  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel people counting method based on head detection and tracking to evaluate the number of people who move under an over-head camera. There are four main parts in the proposed method: foreground extraction, head detection, head tracking, and crossing-line judgment. The proposed method first utilizes an effective foreground extraction method to obtain foreground regions of moving people, and some morphological operations are employed to optimize the foreground regions. Then it exploits a LBP feature based Adaboost classifier for head detection in the optimized foreground regions. After head detection is performed, the candidate head object is tracked by a local head tracking method based on Meanshift algorithm. Based on head tracking, the method finally uses crossing-line judgment to determine whether the candidate head object will be counted or not. Experiments show that our method can obtain promising people counting accuracy about 96% and acceptable computation speed under different circumstances.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2014 International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages136-141
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479957118
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Feb 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 1st International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2014 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 3 Nov 20145 Nov 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2014 International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2014

Conference

Conference2014 1st International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period3/11/145/11/14

Keywords

  • LBP
  • head detection
  • head tracking
  • people counting

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