Unsupervised feature based abnormality detection
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- Author(s): Hao Li 1 ; D.R. Bull 1 ; A. Achim 1
- Conference: Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD 2010)
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Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD 2010),
January 2010
page
16
Affiliations:
1:
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol
, UK
- DOI: 10.1049/ic.2010.0235
- ISBN: 978-1-84919-617-8
- Location: London, UK
- Conference date: 29-30 Sept. 2010
- Format: PDF
In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on detecting anomalous events in surveillance applications. In this paper, we present an unsupervised feature-based abnormality detection algorithm suited for online video surveillance applications. The features used in our method include trajectories, object sizes, and velocities. Unlike the traditional trajectory-based abnormality detection, we consider both the trajectory-based information and region-based information. In our algorithm, the trajectories are clustered using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), providing the ability to choose the optimal number of clusters. Different trajectory clusters are modelled as a chain of Gaussians and new tracks are matched with the cluster models to detect abnormalities. In addition, a novel region-based method is proposed and can be combined with trajectory-based detection. The proposed method has the advantage of detecting abnormal events that cannot be detected by trajectory-based algorithms alone. The results show improved detection compared with traditional trajectory-based methods. (5 pages)
Inspec keywords: principal component analysis; Gaussian processes; feature extraction; video surveillance; object detection
Subjects: Other topics in statistics; Other topics in statistics; Image recognition; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Video signal processing

