Assessment of Shopping Behavior: Automatic System for Behavioral Cues Analysis

An increasing number of public places (e.g. cities, schools, transit districts, and public buildings) are deploying CCTV surveillance systems to monitor and protect the people in those areas. Since events like the terrorist attack in Madrid and London, there has been a further increasing demand for video sensor network systems to guarantee the...

Kinect sensing of shopping related actions

Surveillance systems in shopping malls or supermarkets are usually used for detecting abnormal behavior. We used the distributed video cameras system to design digital shopping assistants which assess the behavior of customers while shopping, detect when they need assistance, and offer their support in case there is a selling opportunity. In...