There has always been the issue of knowing the number of people present in a place such as symposiums, workshops, religious centres. Manual methods have often been employed. During the use of manual methods, the ushers are required are to stand along the pathways, this can then result to congestion in the pathway or even cause the speaker to lose focus. This paper focuses on to solving the problem of overcrowding and at the same time counting of people available in a place per time. In the

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... , image sensing camera were used, the sensing device coupled with the camera were used to capture the image of people in a learning environment. MATLAB/SIMULINK software were used for the experiment. The result showed that the method is 85.4 % accurate with the ground-truth of 254 and TP of 217.