Methods and systems for audience monitoring

摘要

Systems and methods for audience monitoring are provided that include receiving an input including a recording or live feed of an audience composed of several persons, detecting foreground of the input, performing blob segmentation of the input, and analyzing human presence on each segmented blob by identifying at least one person, identifying a spatial distribution of at least one identified person, determining a dwell time of at least one identified person, determining a temporal distribution of at least one identified person, and determining a gaze direction of at least one identified person. Such detecting provides the ability to track individual persons present in the audience, and how long they remain in the audience. The method also provides the ability to determine gaze direction of persons in the audience, and how long one or more persons are gazing in a particular direction.

主权项

1. A method for audience monitoring, comprising:
receiving an input of audience imaging information; detecting a foreground of the received input; performing blob segmentation on the detected foreground of the received input to generate segmented blobs of the detected foreground; analyzing at least one segmented blob for detecting presence of at least one person by performing at least one operation selected from a group consisting of: skin tone verification, body verification, motion verification, size verification, and face verification; and determining false human presence via the skin tone verification and the size verification in the at least one segmented blob.