What it is#
A small computer-vision project that watches a queue through a camera, counts heads, and streams the count to a tiny dashboard. The idea was that students could check the wait from their hostel block instead of walking down on a guess.
I trained a small detection model on hall footage to handle morning and evening lighting, built a quick tool to mark the queue zone per camera, and pushed the live count to the dashboard so it felt actually live.
Where it stopped#
The vision part worked. Getting permission and a physical place to mount a camera in the hall did not. The project lives on as a prototype I can demo from a laptop webcam, but it never made it into the mess.
What I’d do differently#
Talk to the people who control the camera mount before training the model.