Linköping University has several student kitchens all over its campuses where students are given a possibility to warm their food. Critics claim that there are too few student kitchens and that the existing ones are usually overcrowded. That all kitchens are overcrowded at the same time has not been confirmed by sample inspections. One standing hypothesis is that students do not know where all the kitchens are, nor do they want to risk going to a kitchen in another building in case it is full as well.

The aim of this project was to develop a system that will provide the students with information regarding student kitchen usage. The system uses an computer vision approach, estimating the number of people currently using the kitchens.