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Scope of work

Computer Vision & AI

Category

Retail Mall Analytics

Tech Stack

Python, YOLOv11, LightGBM

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Description

Visionlytics is an end-to-end AI-powered shopping mall and retail intelligence platform designed to eliminate operational blind spots, safety risks, and revenue losses caused by a lack of real-time physical retail data. By synchronizing live multi-camera edge computer vision with gradient-boosted machine learning, Visionlytics empowers security teams to proactively prevent crowd surges, guides facility managers in optimizing spatial floorplans, and integrates Point-of-Sale (POS) sales streams to prevent inventory understocking and overstocking.

1. People Counting & Real-Time Occupancy Monitoring

Utilizes fine-tuned YOLOv11 object detection alongside ByteTrack multi-object tracking on entrance camera feeds to calculate real-time visitor entry, exit, and net active occupancy. Operating without intrusive facial identification, this computer vision pipeline achieved a verified 79% counting accuracy under dense footfall conditions.

2. Spatial Footfall Heatmaps & Zone Intelligence

Processes multi-camera surveillance feeds to visually project spatial density heatmaps onto shopping mall architectural floorplans. Mall management can instantly distinguish between high-velocity corridors, prime commercial displays, and underutilized dead zones to negotiate data-backed commercial leases.

3. Precision Dwell Time & Engagement Analytics

Continuously calculates visitor linger durations across general seating, promotional pavilions, and billing checkout counters. Delivering a low Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 9.14%, this module enables store operators to correlate customer dwell times with actual transaction conversion rates.

4. Short-Term Crowd Surge Forecasting

Combines historical foot traffic curves, day-of-week seasonality, and weather factors within a high-speed LightGBM regressor to forecast future crowd volumes hours ahead. Achieving a tight Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 3.37, security supervisors can dispatch personnel proactively before bottlenecks develop.

5. Product-Level SKU Demand Forecasting

Bridges physical footfall volume with automated Point-of-Sale (POS) transaction datasets to forecast retail demand at the individual SKU level. With a Weighted Root Mean Squared Scaled Error (WRMSSE) of 0.62, retail tenants optimize reorder cycles and mitigate stockout shrinkage.

6. Unified Analytics Dashboard & Role-Based Reporting

Delivers intuitive, role-based dashboards tailored for mall executives, security dispatchers, and individual retail tenants to inspect live occupancy, interactive heatmaps, historical footfall trends, and automated operational alerts in real time.

Occupancy AI

79%

Counting Accuracy

Real-time directional entry, exit, and total mall occupancy tracking powered by YOLOv11 & ByteTrack.

Dwell Analytics

9.14%

Dwell MAPE

Precision customer linger time tracking across seating areas, retail aisles, and billing queues.

Forecasting

3.37

Crowd Surge MAE

Short-term crowd size prediction using LightGBM regressor to prevent physical bottleneck hazards.

POS Inventory

0.62

Demand WRMSSE

SKU-level product sales forecasting synchronized with POS data to eliminate stockouts.

End-to-End System Architecture

Multi-camera video feed ingestion, edge computer vision inference, time-series forecasting, and centralized dashboard.

YOLOv11 · ByteTrack · LightGBM · Streamlit
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Visionlytics End-to-End System Architecture Diagram

Real-Time Computer Vision & Occupancy Tracking

Live entrance counting lines tracking visitor flow and dual dwell-time cameras monitoring customer linger durations.

Edge AI Vision

Main Entrance Camera — Directional Counting & Occupancy Line

Visionlytics Main Entrance Camera Counting

Dwell Time Camera 01 — Retail Floor Aisle

Visionlytics Dwell Time Camera 01

Dwell Time Camera 02 — Seating & Billing Lounge

Visionlytics Dwell Time Camera 02

Spatial Footfall Density Heatmaps

Dynamic 2D spatial density projections across the mall floorplan identifying high-traffic zones vs dead retail spaces.

Floorplan Mapping
Visionlytics Floorplan Density Heatmap

Predictive ML: Crowd Surge & Product Demand Forecasting

LightGBM regression models forecasting short-term crowd surges and POS-integrated SKU inventory demand.

LightGBM · Time-Series

Short-Term Crowd Surge Forecasting (MAE 3.37)

Visionlytics Short-Term Crowd Surge Forecasting

Product-Level SKU Demand Forecasting (WRMSSE 0.62)

Visionlytics SKU Demand Forecasting
Demo Showcase

Watch the System in Action

Experience the full walkthrough of Visionlytics, featuring live YOLOv11 people counting, dwell time estimation, heatmaps, and demand forecasting.

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