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In retail 85% of sales occur in physical stores. In the U.S. alone, people spend roughly 37 billion hours each year waiting in line in physical stores. This leads to 4.4 billion potential work productive hours lost or comparatively 4.4 billion hours of leisure, rest or time with…

With the growing ubiquity of mobile devices, users are turning to their smartphones and tablets to perform more complex tasks than ever before. Performing computer vision tasks on mobile devices must be done despite the constraints on CPU performance, memory, and power consumpti…

An improved object tracking algorithm based Kalman filtering is developed in this thesis. The algorithm uses a median filter and morphological operations during tracking. The problem created by object shadows is identified and the primary focus is to incorporate shadow detection…