Human Detector and Counter using Python
1) Background/ Problem Statement
Detecting human beings accurately is very crucial for diverse
application areas including abnormal event detection, congestion
analysis, person identification, and gender classification. The object
classification methods could be divided into three categories: shape-
based, motion-based and texture-based.
Human detection is a difficult task from a machine vision perspective as
it is influenced by a wide range of possible appearances due to
changing articulated pose, clothing, lighting and background, but prior
knowledge of these limitations can improve the detection performance.
This system implements algorithms such as the HOG Descriptor
algorithm and Support Vector Machine algorithm.
2) Working of the Project
In this system, the user has to upload an image or video for detecting
humans. To detect humans in real-time, a webcam can be used. Then,
the number of people counted will be displayed while detecting.
The front-end involves Html, CSS, and JavaScript and the back-end
involves Python. Here, the IDE used is Android Studio. The framework
used is Django and the database is MySQL.
Here, we focus on detecting humans and do not consider recognition of
their activities.
3) Advantages
It’s easy to maintain.
It’s user-friendly.
Humans can be detected from any given image, video or
from webcam.
4) System Description
The system comprises 1 major module with their sub-modules as
follows:
User:
Detection
- Image
The user has to upload an image for detection
- Video
The user has to upload a video for detection
- Real-time
With a click of the button, the camera will open to detect in
real-time
5) Project Life Cycle
The waterfall model is a classical model used in the system
development life cycle to create a system with a linear and sequential
approach. It is termed a waterfall because the model develops
systematically from one phase to another in a downward fashion. The
waterfall approach does not define the process to go back to the
previous phase to handle changes in requirements. The waterfall
approach is the earliest approach that was used for software
development.
6) System Requirements
I. Hardware Requirement
i. Laptop or PC
Windows 7 or higher
I3 processor system or higher
4 GB RAM or higher
100 GB ROM or higher
II. Software Requirement
ii. Laptop or PC
Python
Sublime text Editor
XAMP Server
7) Limitation/Disadvantages
- The image or video must be of high quality in order to detect
humans.
8) Application – This application detects humans and their counting
from images, videos and even the webcam.
9) Reference
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316193513_Real-
Time_Human_Detection_and_Counting_System_Using_Human_Mod
el_and_Axial_Direction_Filtering
- https://www.irjet.net/archives/V8/i4/IRJET-V8I4158.pdf
- https://asp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/
10.1186/1687-6180-2013-176
- https://www.ris-ai.com/human-detection-and-counting-in-python
