Apparatus for identification of an object queue, method and computer program

Abstract

In daily life, people are often forced to join a queue in order, for example, to pay at a checkout or to be dealt with at an airport, etc. Because of the various forms of a queue, these are not usually recorded automatically, but are analyzed manually. For example, if a long queue is formed at a supermarket, as a result of which the predicted waiting time for the customers rises above a threshold value, this situation can be identified by the checkout personnel, and a further checkout can be opened. A deviceis proposed for identification of a queueof objectsin a monitoring area, having an interfacewhich can be connected to an image sourcewith the interfacebeing designed to observe at least one monitoring imageof the monitoring area of the image source, wherein the monitoring imageshows a scene background of the monitoring area with possible objectshaving an evaluation devicewhich is designed to identify the queueof the objectsin the at least one monitoring image, wherein the evaluation devicehas an object detector modulewhich is designed to detect a plurality of objectson the basis of the monitoring imagewherein the plurality of the detected objectsforms the basis for identification of the queueof the objectswherein the object detector moduleis designed to identify the objectsin the monitoring image with the scene background and/or wherein the object detector modulehas content-sensitive detectorsfor detection of the objects