Using decision trees to recognize visual events

  • Authors:
  • Cedric Simon;Jerome Meessen;Christophe De Vleeschouwer

  • Affiliations:
  • UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;Multitel, Mons, Belgium;UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • AREA '08 Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Analysis and retrieval of events/actions and workflows in video streams
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents a classifier-based approach to recognize events in video surveillance sequences. The aim of this work is to propose a generic event recognition system that can be used without relying on a long-term tracking procedure. It is composed of three stages. The first one aims at defining and building a set of relevant features from the foreground objects. Second, a clustering tree-based method is used to handle the features and aggregate them locally in a set of coarse to fine activity patterns. Finally, events are modeled as a sequence of structured patterns with an ensemble of randomized trees. In particular, we want this classifier to discover the temporal and causal correlations between the most discriminative patterns. Our system is tested on simulated events and in a real world context with the CAVIAR video sequences dataset. Preliminary results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework for event recognition in automated visual surveillance applications. We also prove that more flexible algorithms (i.e. deterministic classifiers) rather than probabilistic graph models are conceivable for video events analysis.