People Tracker

People Tracker is a detection software that processes live camera or pre-recorded video feeds rapidly and effectively. Upon detection of a person, the software triggers a webhook, similar to Snapshot Cloud, in real-time, thus ensuring swift and efficient people counting metrics.

To utilize this tool, an access key is required.

System Requirements

For People Tracker, here are some benchmarks from actual system configurations. You may reference these results in choosing the specification of the system to run People Tracker.

a. For a 60 second video:

• Passmark score of 1000, took 433.19 seconds
• Passmark score of 2000, took 368.08 seconds
• Passmark score of 3500, took 250.84 seconds
• Passmark score of 5000, took 130.15 seconds

b. For a 300 second video:

• Passmark score of 1000, took 2096.45 seconds
• Passmark score of 2000, took 1780.92 seconds
• Passmark score of 3500, took 1206.08 seconds
• Passmark score of 5000, took 781.15 seconds

c. For a 600 second video:

• Passmark score of 1000, took 3759.71 seconds
• Passmark score of 2000, took 3188.77 seconds
• Passmark score of 3500, took 2161.32 seconds
• Passmark score of 5000, took 1432.2 seconds

Note: The tests were done using a 720p video at 30 FPS with sample rate set to 1.

For live streaming, here are some recommendations based on actual tests.

• If streaming at 720p and 24 FPS, if the machine has a PassMark score of 2000, please use sample rate of 5.
• If streaming at 720p and 30 FPS, if the machine has a PassMark score of 4500, please use sample rate of 1.

Installation

Abbreviated installation steps below. For a detailed, step-by-step guide, see the Install Docker and SDK on Windows and the associated FAQ for help.

1. Install Docker on your local machine.
2. Get our On-Premise image. In a terminal run docker pull platerecognizer/people-detection
3. Install and run the docker container:

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For the commands below, make sure to change XXXXX with your Access Key.

docker run -e KEY=XXXXX -t platerecognizer/people-detection\
  --url <CAMERA_URL>\
  --webhook <WEBHOOK_SITE>

Replace <CAMERA_URL> with the url of your RTSP camera or the path to your video file. Also replace <WEBHOOK_SITE> with the URL to send the webhook data to.

How It Works

The People Tracker operates by assigning unique track IDs to detected individuals, providing an efficient means of counting and tracking people within a monitored environment. The track IDs will grow larger, however, users are not guaranteed to receive the ids sequentially (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4). This happens in situations where a tracked object is unconfirmed as a person; in such cases, the track ID for that particular object will be skipped.

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If the same person re-enters the monitored area, they will be assigned another track ID.

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If the container running the People Tracker is restarted, the counter will reset.

When a tracked object is confirmed as a person within the video stream, People Tracker will send a real-time notification via webhook. Read more about it here.