Gestigon Gmbh

Verena Krueckemeier

Christian Strauss

A method for the automated detection of a seat occupancy state of a seating arrangement involves receiving or generating measurement data representing an associated radar point cloud for each measurement frame from a plurality of measurement frames; and determining a seat occupancy state of the seating arrangement based on an evaluation model, which returns, as a function of at least two groups of radar point clouds, one of a plurality of predefined possible seat occupancy states of the seating arrangement as an evaluation result. For each radar point cloud, the set of its radar points is segmented into clusters in order to individually assign to each of the seats one of the clusters located spatially closest to it. A stored seat occupancy state is updated based on the evaluation result only if the value is less than a threshold value.

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Luebeck, Germany

Verena Krueckemeier