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Improved anomaly detection in crowded scenes via cell-based analysis of foreground speed, size and texture
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"... A robust and efficient anomaly detection technique is proposed, capable of dealing with crowded scenes where traditional tracking based approaches tend to fail. Initial foreground segmentation of the input frames confines the analysis to foreground objects and effectively ignores irrelevant backgrou ..."
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A robust and efficient anomaly detection technique is proposed, capable of dealing with crowded scenes where traditional tracking based approaches tend to fail. Initial foreground segmentation of the input frames confines the analysis to foreground objects and effectively ignores irrelevant background dynamics. Input frames are split into nonoverlapping cells, followed by extracting features based on motion, size and texture from each cell. Each feature type is independently analysed for the presence of an anomaly. Unlike most methods, a refined estimate of object motion is achieved by computing the optical flow of only the foreground pixels. The motion and size features are modelled by an approximated version of kernel density estimation, which is computationally efficient even for large training datasets. Texture features are modelled by an adaptively grown codebook, with the number of entries in the codebook selected in an online fashion. Experiments on the recently published UCSD Anomaly Detection dataset show that the proposed method obtains considerably better results than three recent approaches: MPPCA, social force, and mixture of dynamic textures (MDT). The proposed method is also several orders of magnitude faster than MDT, the next best performing method. 1.
Color Based Tracing in Real-life Surveillance Data
"... Abstract. For post incident investigation a complete reconstruction of an event is needed based on surveillance footage of the crime scene and surrounding areas. Reconstruction of the whereabouts of the people in the incident requires the ability to follow persons within a camera’s field-of-view (tr ..."
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Abstract. For post incident investigation a complete reconstruction of an event is needed based on surveillance footage of the crime scene and surrounding areas. Reconstruction of the whereabouts of the people in the incident requires the ability to follow persons within a camera’s field-of-view (tracking) and between different cameras (tracing). In constrained situations a combination of shape and color information is shown to be best at discriminating between persons. In this paper we focus on person tracing between uncalibrated cameras with non-overlapping fieldof-view. In these situations standard image matching techniques perform badly due to large, uncontrolled variations in viewpoint, light source, background and shading. We show that in these unconstrained real-life situations, tracing results are very dependent on the appearance of the subject. Key words: Real-life Surveillance and Tracing 1
Detecting Anomalous Maritime Container Itineraries for Anti-fraud and Supply Chain Security
"... Abstract—An important contribution to anti-fraud and supplychain security comes from the development of Risk Analysis tools targeted to the discovery of suspicious containerized transportations. In this work we present the Anomalous Container Itinerary Detection (ACID) framework that analyses Contai ..."
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Abstract—An important contribution to anti-fraud and supplychain security comes from the development of Risk Analysis tools targeted to the discovery of suspicious containerized transportations. In this work we present the Anomalous Container Itinerary Detection (ACID) framework that analyses Container Status Messages to discover irregular container shipments. The system has been developed at JRC as part of an in-house global routebased risk analysis facility for containers monitoring. It adopts a flexible and modular design and its preliminary prototype applies an SVM one-class classifier to detect anomalies. The experimental evaluation demonstrates that the analysis module may be set to detect efficiently the expected number of suspicious itineraries, which can be further investigated by Customs authorities thanks to the web-based visualization tool provided with the system. I.
SuperFloxels: A Mid-Level Representation for Video Sequences
"... Abstract. We describe an approach for grouping trajectories extracted from a video that preserves motion discontinuities due, for instance, to occlusions, but not color or intensity boundaries. Our method takes as input trajectories with variable length and onset time, and outputs a membership funct ..."
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Abstract. We describe an approach for grouping trajectories extracted from a video that preserves motion discontinuities due, for instance, to occlusions, but not color or intensity boundaries. Our method takes as input trajectories with variable length and onset time, and outputs a membership function as well as an indicator function denoting the exemplar trajectory of each group. This can be used for several applications such as compression, segmentation, and background removal. 1
A Filtering Mechanism for Normal Fish Trajectories
"... Understanding fish behavior by extracting normal motion patterns and then identifying abnormal behaviors is important for understanding the effects of environmental change. In the literature, there are many studies on normal/abnormal behavior detection in the areas of human behaviour analysis, traff ..."
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Understanding fish behavior by extracting normal motion patterns and then identifying abnormal behaviors is important for understanding the effects of environmental change. In the literature, there are many studies on normal/abnormal behavior detection in the areas of human behaviour analysis, traffic surveillance, and nursing home surveillance, etc. However, the literature is very limited in terms of normal/abnormal fish behavior understanding especially when natural habitat applications are considered. In this study, we present a rule based trajectory filtering mechanism to extract normal fish trajectories which potentially helps to increase the accuracy of the abnormal fish behavior detection systems and can be used as a preliminary method especially when the number of abnormal fish behaviors are very small (e.g. 40-50 times smaller) compared to the number of normal fish behaviors and/or when the number of trajectories are huge. 1.
1 Active tuning of intrinsic camera parameters
"... Abstract—In the last years, the research effort of the scientific community to study systems for ambient intelligence has been really strong. Usually, the systems developed so far base their analysis on images acquired by automatic cameras. In this paper, we propose a way to develop new smart system ..."
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Abstract—In the last years, the research effort of the scientific community to study systems for ambient intelligence has been really strong. Usually, the systems developed so far base their analysis on images acquired by automatic cameras. In this paper, we propose a way to develop new smart systems that are able to actively decide both what to see and how to see it. In particular, the main idea is to tune the acquisition parameters on the basis of what the system desires to acquire. The regulation strategy is based on two camera parameters, focus and iris. It aims to identify an optimal sequence of steps to enhance the acquisition quality of an object of interest. To this end, a hierarchy of neural networks has been employed first to select which parameter must be regulated then to adjust it. The proposed solution can be applied to both static and moving cameras. The results show how the proposed technique can be applied to images acquired by a moving camera with zoom capabilities for surveillance purposes. I.
Detecting and Tracking Coordinated Groups in Dense, Systematically Moving, Crowds
"... We address the problem of detecting and tracking clusters of moving objects in very noisy environments. Monitoring a crowded football stadium for small groups of individuals acting suspiciously is an example instance of this problem. In this example the vast majority of individuals are not part of a ..."
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We address the problem of detecting and tracking clusters of moving objects in very noisy environments. Monitoring a crowded football stadium for small groups of individuals acting suspiciously is an example instance of this problem. In this example the vast majority of individuals are not part of a suspicious group and are considered as noise. Existing spatio-temporal cluster algorithms are only capable of detecting small clusters in extreme noise when the noise objects are moving randomly. In reality, including the example cited, the noise objects move more systematically instead of moving randomly. The members of the suspicious groups attempt to mimic the behaviors of the crowd in order to blend in and avoid detection. This significantly exacerbates the problem of detecting the true clusters. We propose the use of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) to differentiate the true clusters and their members from the systematically moving noise objects. Our technique utilizes the relational history of the moving objects, implicitly tracked in a relationship graph, and a SVM to increase the accuracy of the clustering algorithm. A modified DBSCAN algorithm is then used to discover clusters of highly related objects from the relationship graph. We evaluate our technique experimentally on several data sets of mobile objects. The experiments show that our technique is able to accurately and efficiently identify groups of suspicious individuals in dense crowds. 1
Trajectory-based handball video understanding
"... This paper presents a content-based approach for understanding handball videos. Tracked players are characterized by their 2D trajectories in the court plane. The trajectories and their interactions are used to model visual semantics, i.e., the observed activity phases. To this end, hierarchical par ..."
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This paper presents a content-based approach for understanding handball videos. Tracked players are characterized by their 2D trajectories in the court plane. The trajectories and their interactions are used to model visual semantics, i.e., the observed activity phases. To this end, hierarchical parallel semi-Markov models (HPaSMMs) are computed in order to take into account the temporal causalities of object motions. Players motions are characterized using velocity informations while their interactions are described by the distances between trajectories. We have evaluated our method on real video sequences, and have favorably compared with another method,i.e., hierarchical parallel hidden Markov models (HPaHMMs). Categories and Subject Descriptors
Lost World: Looking for Anomalous Tracks in Long-term
"... Video surveillance over a long span of time is no longer a lux-ury in this day and age. The abundance of video data cap-tured over time presents a slew of new problems in computer vision. One potential challenge involves the task of finding anomalous tracks over a long period of time. In this work, ..."
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Video surveillance over a long span of time is no longer a lux-ury in this day and age. The abundance of video data cap-tured over time presents a slew of new problems in computer vision. One potential challenge involves the task of finding anomalous tracks over a long period of time. In this work, we propose a new time-scale framework for mining anoma-lous track patterns in long-term surveillance videos. Track clustering is performed at two separate temporal levels to better represent the common modes of behaviour. A prob-abilistic anomaly prediction algorithm is also introduced to evaluate the abnormality of new tracks. In our preliminary work, experiments conducted on the LOST dataset offer in-sights into how track anomalies can be mined and classified. We hope this work will provide the impetus for further ad-vancements in this direction.
Multicamera Video Summarization from Optimal Reconstruction
"... Abstract. We propose a principled approach to video summarization using optimal reconstruction as a metric to guide the creation of the summary output. The spatio-temporal video patches included in the summary are viewed as observations about the local motion of the original input video and are chos ..."
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Abstract. We propose a principled approach to video summarization using optimal reconstruction as a metric to guide the creation of the summary output. The spatio-temporal video patches included in the summary are viewed as observations about the local motion of the original input video and are chosen to minimize the reconstruction error of the missing observations under a set of learned predictive models. The method is demonstrated using fixed-viewpoint video sequences and shown to generalize to multiple camera systems with disjoint views, which can share activity already summarized in one view to inform the summary of another. The results show that this approach can significantly reduce or even eliminate the inclusion of patches in the summary that contain activities from the video that are already expected based on other summary patches, leading to a more concise output. 1