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Clustering method for counting passengers getting in a bus with single camera

Yang, Tao, Zhang, Yanning, Shao, Dapei, Li, Ying·2010·Optical Engineering

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Automatic counting of passengers is very important for both business and security applications. We present a single-camera-based vision system that is able to count passengers in a highly crowded situation at the entrance of a traffic bus. The unique characteristics of the proposed system include, First, a novel feature-point-tracking- and online clustering-based passenger counting framework, which performs much better than those of background-modeling-and foreground-blob-tracking-based methods. Second, a simple and highly accurate clustering algorithm is developed that projects the high-dimensional feature point trajectories into a 2-D feature space by their appearance and disappearance times and counts the number of people through online clustering. Finally, all test video sequences in the experiment are captured from a real traffic bus in Shanghai, China. The results show that the system can process two 320×240 video sequences at a frame rate of 25 fps simultaneously, and can count passengers reliably in various difficult scenarios with complex interaction and occlusion among people. The method achieves high accuracy rates up to 96.5%.

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Authors
Yang, T., Zhang, Y., Shao, D., & Li, Y.
Affiliations
Northwestern Polytechnical University (CN)
Corresponding author
Yang, Tao
Venue
Optical Engineering
Published
2010-03-01
Volume
49
Issue
03
Pages
1-10
ISSN
  • 0091-3286 (ISSN-L)
  • 1560-2303
OpenAlex
W2034430585
Cited by
27
References
20
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
FWCI
1.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Optical Engineering (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
Keywords
passenger counting, online clustering, feature point tracking, crowded scenes, occlusion handling, real-time video processing

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