Detecting empty room

asked 2013-01-12 23:50:22 -0600

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I am doing a project in which I have to use image processing to detect whether a room is empty. Now, I have to use a camera (surveillance types) which will be live feeding the room. Images will be taken at regular intervals and given to the computer which will do the processing of the image.

The issue is the room is big and face might be far away or sometimes even in angles where faces might not be detectable.

How should I proceed with this problem.

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answered 2013-01-13 04:27:19 -0600

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Assuming that when the room is empty then there is no movement at all (no moving curtains, working production line etc.) you may compare the image sequence whether there are differences on them. If so it means that someone entered the room and moving.

I have just pasted my simple code here. It reads the images from the webcam one by one, selects one channel, smooths it and calculates the absolute difference on each pixel. Finally when the difference is above a certain level (20) then the resulting image will contain a white pixel in that position:

cvAbsDiff(image1, image2, result);
cvCmpS(result, 20, result, CV_CMP_GE);

To make the difference more visible a rectangle is drawn that creates a frame around all those pixels where there was a change (calculateMovementCoordinates).

I know that it is a naive solution but you may begin with it.