Evaluation of People Counting Systems
Thomas Schlögl, Bernd Wachmann, W. Kropatsch, Horst Bischof · 2001
This paper addresses the problem of the evaluation of people counting systems. The relation between the real people number and the output of the people counting system is used to motivate the computation of the maximum number of people as a scenario and geometry specific quantity which supports the evaluation of the system output. Based on the camera field-of-view we determine the maximum number of detectable people using a basic people model. The maximum number of people is computed for an overhead camera and for an arbitrary oblique camera orientation which is the typical geometry of standard surveillance applications.