Using Inactivity to Detect Unusual behavior

  • Authors:
  • Patrick Dickinson;Andrew Hunter

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK. pdickinson@lincoln.ac.uk;University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK

  • Venue:
  • WMVC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Workshop on Motion and video Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a novel method for detecting unusual modes of behavior in video surveillance data, suitable for supporting home-based care of elderly patients. Our approach is based on detecting unusual patterns of inactivity. We first learn a spatial map of normal inactivity for an observed scene, expressed as a two-dimensional mixture of Gaussians. The map components are used to construct a Hidden Markov Model representing normal patterns of behavior. A threshold model is also inferred, and unusual behavior detected by comparing the model likelihoods. Our learning procedures are unsupervised, and yield a highly transparent model of scene activity. We present an evaluation of our approach, and show that it is effective in detecting unusual behavior across a range of parameter settings.