Crowd monitoring system
The present invention provides a crowd monitoring system with which it is possible to obtain a crowd density accurately, irrespective of the congestion state. This crowd monitoring system 100 is provided with: an image acquiring unit 101 which acquires a plurality of images; an arithmetic logic unit 108; and a storage unit 106 which stores information relating to relationships between image feature quantities and an object density, acquired in advance, and information relating to relationships between motion feature quantities and the object density. The arithmetic logic unit 108 comprises: an image feature quantity acquiring unit 103 which obtains image feature quantities of objects in the acquired images; a motion line acquiring unit 104 which obtains motion lines of the objects in the acquired images; a motion feature quantity acquiring unit 105 which obtains motion feature quantities of the objects on the basis of the obtained motion lines; and a crowd density acquiring unit 107. The arithmetic logic unit 108 is characterized in that it obtains a first estimated density of the objects on the basis of the obtained image feature quantities and the stored relationships between the image feature quantities and the object density, and obtains a second estimated density of the objects on the basis of the obtained motion feature quantities and the stored relationships between the motion feature quantities and the object density.
1. A crowd monitoring system that obtains a density of an object on the basis of image information, comprising:
an image acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of images;
an image feature quantity acquiring unit that obtains an image feature quantity of the object in the acquired images;
a motion line acquiring unit that obtains a motion line of the object in the acquired images;
a motion feature quantity acquiring unit that obtains a motion feature quantity of the object on the basis of the obtained motion line;
a storage unit that stores information of a relation between the image feature quantity and the density of the object acquired in advance, and a relation between the motion feature quantity and the density of the object acquired in advance; and
a density acquiring unit that determines the density of the object,
wherein the density acquiring unit obtains
a first density estimation value of the object on the basis of the obtained image feature quantity and a relation between the stored image feature quantity and the density of the object, and
a second density estimation value of the object on the basis of the obtained motion feature quantity and a relation between the stored motion feature quantity and the density of the object.
2. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image feature quantity is an edge quantity in the image.
3. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the motion feature quantity is a magnitude of a horizontal swaying with respect to an advancing direction of the object obtained from the plurality of acquired images.
4. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 3 ,
wherein the motion feature quantity acquiring unit obtains the motion feature quantity on the basis of a value obtained by dividing a length of the obtained motion line by a distance between a start point and an endpoint of the motion line.
5. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the motion feature quantity is a distance between a start point and an end point of the motion line.
6. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the motion line acquiring unit obtains a feature point with respect to an object in the entire monitoring region in the acquired image, and acquires the motion line by tracking the obtained feature point.
7. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 6 ,
wherein the motion line acquiring unit obtains feature points with respect to a plurality of objects in the entire monitoring region in the acquired image, and acquires a plurality of the motion lines by tracking the plurality of obtained feature points.
8. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 7 ,
wherein the motion feature quantity acquiring unit sends an average value of the motion feature quantities acquired on the basis of the plurality of obtained motion lines to the density acquiring unit.
9. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the density acquiring unit employs any one of the first density estimation value and the second density estimation value on the basis of the obtained first density estimation value, the obtained second density estimation value, and a predetermined threshold.
10. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 9 ,
wherein the density acquiring unit employs the first density estimation value in a case where the obtained first density estimation value is smaller than the predetermined threshold.
11. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 9 ,
wherein the density acquiring unit employs the second density estimation value in a case where the obtained first density estimation value is larger than the predetermined threshold.
12. The crowd monitoring system according to claim 9 ,
wherein the density acquiring unit employs the first density estimation value in a case where the obtained first density estimation value is smaller than the predetermined threshold, and does not obtain the second density estimation value.