Methods and systems for detecting and tracking objects

A system for detecting and tracking objects in a physical space, the system comprising:

• a plurality of media acquisition devices positioned within a physical space, the space divided in an approximate grid fashion with defined points such that each media acquisition device is adapted to sense three or more points within the space;
• and
• a detection and tracking device in communication with the plurality of media acquisition devices, the detection and tracking device adapted to perform the processing steps comprising:
• receiving media from the plurality of media acquisition devices;
• processing each of the received media from each of the plurality of media acquisition devices using at least one custom training method;
• deriving, from each of the received media, input data points for the object from a bounding box defined in the media corresponding with the object;
• deriving, using a projection matrix for each of the media acquisition devices, output data points using a matrix multiplication with the input data points;
• projecting the output data points onto the groundplot;
• clustering the output data points to obtain a centroid representing the at least one object on the groundplot;
• assigning a tracking ID to the centroid;
• and
• tracking, by the detection and tracking device, the at least one object in the physical space by repeating the previous processing steps.