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An object detection app for urban surveys

Measure and track pedestrian movement patterns


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Place the phone on a street or plaza

Grab an inexpensive Android smartphone and find an elevated spot like a balcony or a window. All occurences of pedestrians, cyclists and other objects in view of the camera are detected. The phone can record for a few minutes or up to several hours hours.

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Postprocess directly on the phone

Add afterwards a match between image points and spots on a map and the gathered data will be converted to map coordinates.

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Analyze and visualize datasets on an interactive map

Recorded data can be exported and analyzed conventiently on an interactive map in a browser.

Filtering by object class (pedestrian, bicycle, car, ...) and time is easy. Data is visualized as an heatmap or scatterplot.

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