Surveillance Event Detection

We have developed and evaluated three generalized systems for event detection. The first system is a simple brute force search method, where each space-time location in the video is evaluated by a binary decision rule on whether it contains the event or not. The second system is build on top of a head tracker to avoid costly brute force searching. The decision stage is a combination of state of the art feature extractors and classifiers. Our third system has a probabilistic framework. From the observations, the pose of the people are estimated and used to determine the presence of event. Finally we introduce two ad-hoc methods that were designed to specifically detect OpposingFlow and TakePicture events. The results are promising as we are able to get good results on several event categories, while for all events we have gained valuable insights and experience.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: TRECVID
• Authors: Mert Dikmen, Huazhong Ning, Dennis J. Lin, Liangliang Cao, Vuong Le, Shen-Fu Tsai, Kai-Hsiang Lin, Zhen Li, Jianchao Yang, Thomas S. Huang, Fengjun Lv, Wei Xu, Ming Yang, Kai Yu, Guangyu Zhu, Yihong Gong
• Keywords: Brute Force, Brute Force Search, Costly Brute Force, Internet Technology, TRECVID 2008