Difficult People Counting Situations
Video Turnstile perfoms well in difficult counting situations, as shown by these video clips. The flash of a white line indicates that a person has been counted.
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Exhibitions | Outdoors | Sharp Turns | Galleries | Clothing Styles and Colours | Sizes and Speeds | Prams and Trolleys
Busy Exhibitions and Hospitality Areas
Exhibition and hospitality areas often have very large entrances, allowing large numbers of people in and out. In these cases an entrance would be covered by two cameras. The video shows the output from both cameras and indicates how they are combined so that someone in the view of both is only counted once. (The flash of a white line indicates that a person has been counted.)
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Outdoor Monitoring with Changing Light Conditions
As well counting people inside buildings, you can count people outside. This video clip shows an outdoor camera monitoring the path at the entrance to a road underpass, so that pedestrian traffic can be monitored. The recording shows difficult and changing light conditions but the systems maintains a good counting accuracy.
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People Turning Sharply
Here we illustrate the problem of people being able to turn sharply as they go through the counting zone. In this example, people enter through the doorway at the bottom of the picture and can turn left or right to enter different areas of the visitor centre, or they can go straight through and climb the stairs. People moving from one area to another without leaving the premises are not counted.
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Groups of Visitors Entering a Gallery
This clip shows groups of people entering an art gallery.
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Coping with Different Clothing Styles
Here you can see how Video Turnstile copes with different styles and colours of clothes. (Watch the escalator on the right.)
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Coping with Different Heights of People
The system also has no problem with people of varying heights walking under the camera at different speeds.
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Prams and Trolleys
A switch on the Video Turnstile unit lets you choose whether to "make following difficult" and treat people with prams, buggies or trolleys as probably one visitor, or to "make following easy" and identify people following close behind each other as two visitors. Notice though, that the mother and separate walking child are counted as 2 visitors. (If you don't want to count small children you can set a height threshold under which people won't be counted.)
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