Abstract—A new people-counting system is described in this paper. The proposed system showed its effectiveness and flexibility to count the number of people in a certain image and performing real-time people counting. A Curve Analysis method is developed for the crowd monitoring system to count the objects. Promising results were obtained and the evaluation on their performance indicates the proposed Curve Analysis method counting method provides good results.

Index Terms—Cluster segmentation, curve analysis, edge detection, median filter.

Lim Eng Aik is with the Institute of Engineering Mathematic of Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Perlis, 02000 Malaysia. Phone: +6012-4686859; e-mail:eng_aik@yahoo.com.
Zarita Zainuddin is with the School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, 11800 Malaysia. e-mail: zarita@cs.usm.my.

Cite: Lim Eng Aik and Zarita Zainuddin, "Real-Time People Counting System using Curve Analysis Method," International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 77-83, 2009.