How to Use the Roboflow People Detection API

Roboflow offers a free people detection API that facilitates identifying individuals in images by providing coordinates of their locations, which is particularly useful in industries such as construction and security for monitoring restricted areas and tracking room occupancy. To use this API, users must create a free account on Roboflow to obtain an API key, enabling access to pre-trained models available on Roboflow Universe, a platform hosting over 110,000 datasets and 11,000 models. The guide demonstrates integrating the API into applications using the Roboflow Python SDK, allowing for inference on local and hosted images, with results visualized through bounding boxes in saved images. Users can deploy the model on various platforms, such as web browsers, iOS, NVIDIA Jetson, Luxonis OAK, Raspberry Pi, and Docker, based on their specific needs. Applications of this model include monitoring room capacity, tracking entry times, and ensuring safety in workspaces, with additional resources available to connect the model to business logic through the Roboflow templates library.