title: Tracking pedestrians across multiple microcells based on successive Bayesian estimations.
abstract: We propose a method for tracking multiple pedestrians using a binary sensor network. In our proposed method, sensor nodes are composed of pairs of binary sensors and placed at specific points, referred to as gates, where pedestrians temporarily change their movement characteristics, such as doors, stairs, and elevators, to detect pedestrian arrival and departure events. Tracking pedestrians in each subregion divided by gates, referred to as microcells, is conducted by matching the pedestrian gate arrival and gate departure events using a Bayesian estimation-based method. To improve accuracy of pedestrian tracking, estimated pedestrian velocity and its reliability in a microcell are used for trajectory estimation in the succeeding microcell. Through simulation experiments, we show that the accuracy of pedestrian tracking using our proposed method is improved by up to 35% compared to the conventional method.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, Higashiosaka 577-8502, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshiaki
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7892-1959
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.affiliation: Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan.
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0862-1613
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sasabe
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: Takafumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.affiliation: Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japan.
authors.forename: Hirotaka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakano
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D016138:Walking