Omega Model for Human Detection and Counting for application in Smart Surveillance System
This addresses security management needs in smart surveillance systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing feature-based detection approaches.
The paper tackles human detection and counting for smart surveillance by proposing the Omega Model, which uses four descriptors for head, neck, and shoulder features to achieve robust detection under challenges like occlusion and varying conditions, with evaluation results validating the method in actual situations.
Driven by the significant advancements in technology and social issues such as security management, there is a strong need for Smart Surveillance System in our society today. One of the key features of a Smart Surveillance System is efficient human detection and counting such that the system can decide and label events on its own. In this paper we propose a new, novel and robust model, The Omega Model, for detecting and counting human beings present in the scene. The proposed model employs a set of four distinct descriptors for identifying the unique features of the head, neck and shoulder regions of a person. This unique head neck shoulder signature given by the Omega Model exploits the challenges such as inter person variations in size and shape of peoples head, neck and shoulder regions to achieve robust detection of human beings even under partial occlusion, dynamically changing background and varying illumination conditions. After experimentation we observe and analyze the influences of each of the four descriptors on the system performance and computation speed and conclude that a weight based decision making system produces the best results. Evaluation results on a number of images indicate the validation of our method in actual situation.