C ROWD A NALYSIS U SING I MAGE P ROCESSING

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What is Crowd Analysis ? Why do it ?

How it can be done ?

Crowd Analysis through digital image processing

References

W HAT IS C ROWD A NALYSIS ?

As the word says, it is analyzing the several aspects of a group of people

CC Cameras are a crude form of crowd analysis, and has been used for several decades To formally define it :

Crowd analysis involves explicit detection, tracking, and monitoring of individuals in the scene

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1. Helps to regulate and monitor crowd

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2. Analyze traffic, and better regulate it (also, the

reasons for the accident, bottlenecks, accident prone areas etc can be identified also)

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3. Regulate riots, parades etc

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4. Analyze space usage and maximize the utilization

of available space

5. Can be used to identify customer behavior

(which part of the shop or mall, there is most number of customers)

6. Monitoring pedestrian behaviour 7. Any other ?

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IT CAN BE DONE

Through physical monitoring ( crude, error prone, and with very low effectiveness )

Heat sensing (Can be used for only monitoring persons, not suitable for monitoring vehicles and other moving objects) Visual (video or image ) analysis

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DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

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DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

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DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

ADCEM: RESEARCH PROJECT 2011 Automatic Decision Support system for Crowd Estimation and Management in Masjid-eHaram

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