Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction.

Chamberlain, Timothy; Armitage, Alistair; Rutter, Malcolm; Binnie, David

Abstract

Automated pedestrian sensing and tracking is receiving increasing attention from researchers in a number of areas. Applications are common in security, in urban planning, and in the retail industry. A common approach is to use CCTV and visible image processing, but this involves complicated scene interpretation. This paper describes our research on monitoring the movement of pedestrians using relatively low-cost, low resolution infrared sensors. We describe our data collection system and processing techniques and introduce new data analysis software. Preliminary results show that, as well as the simple tracking of pedestrians, biometric data, such as gait measurement, becomes possible. Our work aims to provide data to improve security and to enable behavioural monitoring of pedestrians in public. This data is important to those working in pedestrian monitoring, market research and in public safety and security.

Citation

Chamberlain, T., Armitage, A., Rutter, M., & Binnie, D. (2006). Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction. In ITS World Congress (1-11)

• Conference Name: ITS World Congress
• Start Date: Sep 29, 2006
• End Date: Sep 29, 2006
• Publication Date: 2006-09
• Deposit Date: Mar 16, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 16, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1-11
• Book Title: ITS World Congress
• Keywords: pedestrian movement; infrared sensors; biometric data; behavioural monitoring
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3423