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ABROA: Audio-based room-occupancy analysis using Gaussian mixtures and Hidden Markov models

This paper outlines preliminary steps towards the development of an audio-based room-occupancy analysis model. Our approach borrows from speech recognition tradition and is based on Gaussian Mixtures and Hidden Markov Models. We analyse possible challenges encountered in the development of such a model, and offer several solutions including feature design and prediction strategies. We provide results obtained from experiments with audio data from a retail store in Palo Alto, California. Model assessment is done via leave-two-out Bootstrap and model convergence achieves good accuracy, thus representing a contribution to multimodal people counting algorithms.