An embedded system for counting passengers in public transportation vehicles

Author

Bernini, Nicola ; Bombini, Luca ; Buzzoni, Michele ; Cerri, Pietro ; Grisleri, Paolo

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing. dell´Inf., Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This article describes a system for people counting conceived for public transportation vehicles. The underlying idea is to monitor the number of passengers getting in or out public transportation means like buses and metros over time hence computing reliable estimations in order to improve vehicle´s door control. A stereo vision system is presented, it has been developed considering its future installation over bus doors; a feature based people counting algorithm and an object tracking system are used to count people getting in or out of a specific region of interest. The system here described will be installed and tested on an Ivecobus Citelis vehicle in the framework of the Italian Industria 2015 Ecoautobus initiative.

Keywords

feature extraction; object tracking; public transport; stereo image processing; traffic engineering computing; Italian Industria 2015 Ecoautobus; Ivecobus Citelis vehicle; embedded system; feature based people counting algorithm; object tracking system; public transportation vehicle; stereo vision system; vehicle door control; Cameras; Feature extraction; Head; Legged locomotion; Radiation detectors; Three-dimensional displays; Transportation; Industria2015; People Counting; People Detection; Stereo Vision;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2014 IEEE/ASME 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Senigallia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2772-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MESA.2014.6935562

Filename

6935562