A Generic Framework for Video Understanding Applied to Group Behavior Recognition

  • Authors:
  • Sofia Zaidenberg;Bernard Boulay;Francois Bremond

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AVSS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to detect and track groups of people in video-surveillance applications, and to automatically recognize their behavior. This method keeps track of individuals moving together by maintaining a spacial and temporal group coherence. First, people are individually detected and tracked. Second, their trajectories are analyzed over a temporal window and clustered using the Mean-Shift algorithm. A coherence value describes how well a set of people can be described as a group. Furthermore, we propose a formal event description language. The group events recognition approach is successfully validated on 4 camera views from 3 datasets: an airport, a subway, a shopping center corridor and an entrance hall.