1. An apparatus for identifying a queue of objects in a monitoring area, the apparatus having an interface which can be connected to an image source, the interface being designed to accept at least one monitoring image of the monitoring area from the image source, the monitoring image showing a scene background of the monitoring area with possible objects and an evaluation device which is designed to identify the queue of objects in the at least one monitoring image, the evaluation device having an object detector module which is designed to detect a multiplicity of the objects on the basis of the monitoring image, the multiplicity of the detected objects forming the basis for identifying the queue of objects, wherein the object detector module is designed to identify the objects in the monitoring image with the scene background, the object detector module has content-sensitive detectors for detecting the objects, or both.