Track-Based Finding of Stopping Pedestrians - A Practical Approach for Analyzing a Public Infrastructure

We present a case study for obtaining and analyzing long-term pedestrian track data within a large hall of an Austrian railway station, where no CCTV surveillance system was pre-installed. Hence one focus of this paper concerns practical aspects for selecting and strategically placing a high-quality multi-camera system for recording long-term video data for off-line analysis. The pedestrian tracks are obtained by applying a state-of-the art vision-based multiple human tracking software program. The focus of the track analysis is the detection of places where people stop frequently or walk slowly, respectively. We present the applied methodology and discuss the main results