METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COUNT PEOPLE IN IMAGES

Patent №

US 9,292,736

Granted

2016-03-22

Filed 2013

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Lab

AI components

3

vision · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14136748

Methods and apparatus to count people in images are disclosed. An example method includes analyzing frame pairs of a plurality of frame pairs captured over a period of time to identify a redundant person indication detected in an overlap region, the overlap region corresponding to an intersection of a first field of view and a second field of view; eliminating the identified redundant person indication to form a conditioned set of person indications for the period of time; grouping similarly located ones of the person indications of the conditioned set to form groups; analyzing the groups to identify redundant groups detected in the overlap region; and eliminating the redundant groups from a people tally generated based on the groups.

AI classification

Vision1.00
Knowledge representation0.82
Planning0.58
AI hardware0.07
Machine learning0.01
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 319510864

Assignors

SRINIVASAN, VENUGOPAL, SOUNDARARAJAN, PADMANABHAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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