Roadside Vehicle People Counter

A successfully developed solution will improve the safety precautions on Norwegian vehicle ferries.

Currently the passengers in vehicles are manually counted when cars are driving onboard. This method results in inaccurate results.

The project is in pilot. The pilot is further developed to remove duplicate counts and handle vehicle variations.

Our experience is that remote video counting through car windows in changing light conditions is a difficult task which needs further research and development. Different vehicles types, changing light, changing weather, tinted windows and coloured glass makes it difficult to see how many people are inside each vehicle.

In this project we have two main activities:

The sensor system: To combine sensor and camera to collect interpretable data of satisfying quality.
Software / computer vision: To develop suitable computer vision algorithms to detect people from multiple cameras and sensor data series.

Successful outcome will end up with an accurate and secure counting solution for persons in vehicles while privacy is safeguarded.

Contact

Erling Sandsdalen

Acting Research Director Drones and Autonomous Systems - Tromsø

esan@norceresearch.no
+47 920 26 646

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Roadside Vehicle People Counter

Status

CONCLUDED

Duration

01.11.19 - 30.06.23

Location

Tromsø

Total budget

8.000.000 NOK

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Technology

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Drones and Autonomous Systems

Measurement Science

Funding

Research Council of Norway (RCN)

Prosjekteier

Counting Hero

Project members

Erling Sandsdalen

Jone Rasmussen

Jonas Nordhaug Myhre

Ruben Patel

Peter James Thomas (NORCE)

Kjetil Daae Lohne

Junyong You

Jeremy Cook

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