Detect humans and their position.

I want to detect humans and their position (e.g.sleeping or standing or sitting) in a video using MATLAB.I have tried using people tracking algorithms, different demos/algorithms, computer vision and DSP System Toolboxes.But still not got appropriate results.Can anyone suggest me a simple way to do it?

Answer 1

[Dima Lisin]

The Computer Vision System Toolbox has a way of detecting standing people ( vision.PeopleDetector) as well as faces and upper bodies ( vision.CascadeObjectDetector). Have you tried these?

[Khushi]

Yes I have tried that but have not got apropriate results.

[Dima Lisin]

Could you please be more specific? Have you been able to detect standing people with vision.PeopleDetector? Have you tried using a different ClassificationModel? The object comes with two: 'UprightPeople_128x64' (Default) and 'UprightPeople_96x48'.

Also, is your camera stationary? You could try using vision.ForegroundDetector do detect anything that moves.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

The University of Dayton has developed human action recognition software. See their site for ideas on how to proceed: http://www.udayton.edu/engineering/vision_lab/human_activity_recognition/action_recognition.php It won't be easy, and there is nothing built in to any MATLAB toolbox to do this, so you're in for a lot of work.