Detection and Tracking of Shopping Groups in Stores

Abstract

We describe a monocular real-time computer vision system that identifies shopping groups by detecting and tracking multiple people as they wait in a checkout line or service counter. Our system segments each frame into foreground regions which contains multiple people. Foreground regions are further segmented into individuals using a temporal segmentation of foreground and motion cues. Once a person is detected, an appearance model based on color and edge density in conjunction with a mean-shift tracker is used to recover the person's trajectory. People are grouped together as a shopping group by analyzing interbody distances. The system also monitors the cashier's activities to determine when shopping transactions start and end. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness and real-time performance of the algorithm.

Cite

Text

Haritaoglu and Flickner. "Detection and Tracking of Shopping Groups in Stores." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2001.990507

Markdown

[Haritaoglu and Flickner. "Detection and Tracking of Shopping Groups in Stores." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2001/haritaoglu2001cvpr-detection/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.2001.990507

BibTeX

@inproceedings{haritaoglu2001cvpr-detection,
  title     = {{Detection and Tracking of Shopping Groups in Stores}},
  author    = {Haritaoglu, Ismail and Flickner, Myron},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {2001},
  pages     = {I:431-438},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.2001.990507},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2001/haritaoglu2001cvpr-detection/}
}