Pedestrian counting system robust against illumination changes

Atsushi Sato; Kenji Mase; Akira Tomono; Ken'ichiro Ishii

doi:10.1117/12.157882

22 October 1993 Pedestrian counting system robust against illumination changes

Atsushi Sato, Kenji Mase, Akira Tomono, Ken'ichiro Ishii

Proceedings Volume 2094, Visual Communications and Image Processing '93; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.157882
Event: Visual Communications and Image Processing '93, 1993, Cambridge, MA, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a realtime pedestrian counting system based on x-t spacetime image analysis. The system counts the number of pedestrians through the combination of three processes: moving object extraction, object counting by region labeling, and direction detection by flow estimation. In order to extract objects reliably under various illumination changes, we propose new moving objects extraction methods that extract moving regions whose shadows have been eliminated by using adaptive background image reconstruction and the color information processing of the images. For labeling and flow estimation, we use the Ortho-sectioning method that analyzes extracted regions on a spacetime slice image of the original three dimensional volume. Experimental results confirm the robustness of the system against illumination changes.

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Atsushi Sato, Kenji Mase, Akira Tomono, and Ken'ichiro Ishii "Pedestrian counting system robust against illumination changes", Proc. SPIE 2094, Visual Communications and Image Processing '93, (22 October 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.157882

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