HEAT-BASED HUMAN PRESENCE DETECTION AND TRACKING

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for detecting human presence using IR sensor data. In some embodiments, any activity in a space monitored (imaged) by an IR sensor can be determined by calculating the delta between average image frames acquired by the imaging sensor. A finite value of delta implies activity/presence. In some embodiments, the delta values (i.e., changes in target area scene) are integrated over time to calculate a mask. The mask can be used to isolate a human occupant (whether stationary or moving) in the scene from the given background objects of the space, thus allowing for occupancy detection. Occupancy in known blind spots of the area can be inferred based on detected occupancy in non-blind spots neighboring the blind spot so that entering and exiting with respect to the blind spot is tracked.