Visualizing Passenger Flow in Railway Station Using Laser Scanners
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چکیده
Our goal in this study is to examine the feasibility for analyzing and visualizing passenger flows using laser scanners in a railway station. A network of laser scanners is located on different places and scan pedestrian's feet at a horizontal plane about 16 cm above the ground. Motion trajectories are extracted from the laser points on moving feet. They are analyzed to find the pattern of passenger flows and its change with time. Through three experiments in railway stations, we concluded that the proposed method is efficient in examining user behaviour even in the crowded stations.
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