People Counting System for Getting In/Out of a Bus Based on Video Processing

This paper presents an automatic people counting system for getting in/out of a bus based on video processing. The basic scheme is to set a zenithal camera in the bus for capturing the passenger flow bi-directionally. The captured frame is firstly divided into many blocks and each block will be classified according to its motion vector. If the block quantity of similar motion vectors is more than a threshold, those blocks are regarded as belonging to the same moving object. As a result, the number of such moving objects is counted to be the passenger number of getting in or out of a bus. can be segmented for counting. Experimental results show that the proposed bus-passenger counting algorithm can provide a high count accuracy of 92% on average.