SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COUNTING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE

• US 20100232644A1
• Filed: 09/08/2009
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: HSIAO, Pei-Chi, HSU, Pang-Wei
• Application Number:
  US12/555,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20100232644A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/103
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69

Abstract

This invention discloses a method and system for counting the number of people. First, a first face information is stored in a memory. Then, an image is determined to be a complexion region or not. The complexion region is determined to be a real face or not. Next, a one-to-one similarity matching is processed between the potential face information and the first face information, when the similarity matching achieves a predetermined condition, use the potential face information to update the first face information, when the similarity matching does not achieve a predetermined condition and the potential face is the real face, the potential face is viewed as a second face information and added to the memory, and the first face information is set as been occluded. Finally, the number of people in front of the camera is counted according to the faces stored in the memory.

Claims

1. A system for counting the number of people, comprising:

an object-tracking recorder for recording a first face information in a first time point;

a complexion region detector for determining whether an image captured by a camera in a second time point is a complexion region, wherein the second time point follows the first time point;

a face detector for determining whether the complexion region is a real face, if the complexion region is a real face, the real face is determined to be a front face or a profile face, and the determined result is recorded as a potential face information;

a relevance-matching calculator for processing a one-to-one similarity matching between the potential face information and the first face information, when the similarity matching achieves a predetermined condition, the potential face information updates the first face information, when the similarity matching does not achieve the predetermined condition and the potential face is the real face, the potential face is viewed as a second face information and added to the object-tracking recorder, and the first face information is set as been occluded; and

a counting calculator for counting the number of people in front of the camera according to the faces recorded by the object-tracking recorder.

2. The system for counting the number of people of claim 1, wherein the face detector comprising:

an appearance information recorder for recording an appearance information of the potential face;

a front face judgment module for determining whether the potential face is a front face; and

a profile face judgment module for determining whether the potential face is a profile face.

3. The system for counting the number of people of claim 1, wherein when the potential face is determined to be the front face and the profile face at the same time, the face detector determines that the potential face is the front face.

4. The system for counting the number of people of claim 1, wherein the object-tracking recorder comprising:

an appearance information recorder for recording an appearance information of a face;

a front face counter for counting a number of times that a face information has been determined as the front face;

a profile face counter for counting a number of times that a face information has been determined as the profile face;

a face number labeler for labeling each potential face determined to be the face; and

an occluded counter for counting a number of times that a face has been occluded.

5. The system for counting the number of people of claim 1, wherein the relevance-matching calculator processes the one-to-one similarity matching by the appearance information of the potential face information and the appearance information of the first face in the first time point.

6. The system for counting the number of people of claim 5, wherein the appearance information comprising textures, colors and sizes.

7. The system for counting the number of people of claim 5, wherein a plurality of the first face information are comprised in the first time point.

8. The system for counting the number of people of claim 4, wherein when the number of times that the face has been occluded exceeds a threshold, the first face information is viewed as leaving the camera'"'"'s field of view.

9. The system for counting the number of people of claim 1, further comprising at least one digital signage.

10. The system for counting the number of people of claim 9, wherein the number of people can be displayed on the digital signage, and the number of people is counted by the counting calculator.

11. A method for counting the number of people, comprising:

a first face information in a first time point is stored in a memory;

an image is determined to be a complexion region or not, wherein the image is captured by a camera in a second time point and the first time point is followed by the second time point;

the complexion region is determined to be a real face or not, if the complexion region is a real face, the real face is determined to be a front face or a profile face, and the determined result is recorded as a potential face information;

a one-to-one similarity matching is processed between the potential face information and the first face information, when the similarity matching achieves a predetermined condition, use the potential face information to update the first face information, when the similarity matching does not achieve a predetermined condition and the potential face is the real face, the potential face is viewed as a second face information and added to the memory, and the first face information is set as been occluded; and

the number of people in front of the camera is counted according to the faces stored in the memory.

12. The method for counting the number of people of claim 11, wherein when the real face is determined to be a front face and a profile face at the same time, the real face is determined to be the front face.

13. The method for counting the number of people of claim 11, further comprising:

a number of times that a face information has been occluded is counted.

14. The method for counting the number of people of claim 11, wherein the one-to-one similarity matching is processed by an appearance information of the potential face information and an appearance information of the first face information.

15. The method for counting the number of people of claim 14, wherein the appearance information comprising textures, colors and sizes.

16. The method for counting the number of people of claim 13, wherein when the number of times that the face has been occluded exceeds a threshold, the first face information is viewed as leaving the camera'"'"'s field of view.

17. The method for counting the number of people of claim 11, further comprising an analysis graph for counting the number of people to display the is number of people, wherein the analysis graph for counting the number of people comprising:

an attention degree histogram, a plurality of different colors are used in the histogram to indicate the attention degree of people has been attracted by an advertisement on an electronic signage;

a people-to-time color bar, a plurality of different colors indicates the number of people in front of the camera in different time points; and

a multimedia interaction message board.