TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Pedestrian counting with grid-based binary sensors based on Monte Carlo method
JO  - SpringerPlus
A1  - Fujii, Shuto
A1  - Taniguchi, Yoshiaki
A1  - Hasegawa, Go
A1  - Matsuoka, Morito
SP  - 299
EP  - 299
VL  - 3
IS  - 
N2  - In this paper, we propose a method for estimating the number of pedestrians walking in opposite directions, as in cases of a shopping street or a sidewalk in a downtown area. The proposed method utilizes a compound-eye sensor that is constructed by placing two binary sensors for the pedestrians' movement direction and multiple binary sensors for the vertical direction of the pedestrians' movement direction. A number of Monte Carlo simulations about the movement of pedestrians are conducted, and the output history of the compound-eye sensor is obtained in each simulation. The simulation scenario with a small difference of the output history of the compound-eye sensor is selected to estimate the number of pedestrians. Evaluation results show that in the field whose width is 8 [m] the relative error in the proposed method is the smallest by using 2×8 binary sensors.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2193-1801
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-299
ID  - ref1
ER  -