Multi-book Detection in Self-service System in Libraries

It's necessary to build a multi-book detection system to ensure readers pursue self-service in libraries,i.e., librarians are needless in borrowing and returning books.The existing multi-book detection systems use a sensor to detect magnetic signals hidden in books.But they are not sufficiently high in accuracy.A new multi-book detection system is proposed in this paper which uses a camera to track books being borrowed or returned.Straight line detection in image of the book profile and adaptive profile detection are described mainly.The experimental results show that the system has better ability to guard against some mischievous operations in its self-services.