Week2: Storyboard2:Tracking People
- There is the need to track individuals in a crowd.
- The police has to guarantee the safety of all participants of a big event, like the streetparade.
- So they want to be aware of potential hotspots and bottleneck situations.
- An architect wants to know, how well his building performs.
- Insight in to the current use, allows him to detect flaws and optimize the design for further projects.
- Store-Managers need data regarding his customers and the way they move through a shop.
- This allows to improve product arrangement or presentation to increase sales.
- There are problems with the current approach.
- Videosystems are pretty reliable for classification of individuals.
- But tracking those individuals in space is tricky and often produces errors.
- There may be a solution.
- What if there was a way to combine the videosystem with a 3d scanning device.
- Use the technology where it performs best.
- Classify using the videocamera.
- Tracking using the 3d scanner.
- There is a similar concept already in use!
- The police uses 3d laser-scanner or radar to track carsIf a speeding car is detected, it gets identified using a camera.