Implementation of tripwire system using video surveillance for Railway platform security

Abstract

Indian Railways are the leading railway system of Asia and the second leading railway system of the world. In the India as compared with other sector railways are the biggest sector, which provides more employment. It is a convenient, chief and efficient public transportation system. As per the recent year the security of station platform is an important issue. CCTV and DVR are the present monitoring equipment to record the passenger behavior on the platform, but could not provide any warning message to a passenger instantly. This paper proposes a new technique by employing a tripwire analytic technique and extracts the motion vectors from the digital compressed video files and then uses these motion vectors to work out, whether or not the passenger is approaching railway. This method detects the passenger's moving direction on the platform without using any additional detecting equipment. If a passenger is approaching the warning line of the railway platform, the proposed method can successfully detect the moving direction of passenger on the platforms and can successfully start the broadcasting warning system to increase the safety on the platform.