Online detection of abnormal events in video streams

  • Authors:
  • Tian Wang;Jie Chen;Hichem Snoussi

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut Charles Delaunay, LM2S-UMR STMR 6279 CNRS, University of Technology of Troyes, Troyes, France;Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, UMR 7293 CNRS, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France;Institut Charles Delaunay, LM2S-UMR STMR 6279 CNRS, University of Technology of Troyes, Troyes, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We propose an algorithm to handle the problem of detecting abnormal events, which is a challenging but important subject in video surveillance. The algorithm consists of an image descriptor and online nonlinear classification method. We introduce the covariance matrix of the optical flow and image intensity as a descriptor encoding moving information. The nonlinear online support vectormachine (SVM) firstly learns a limited set of the training frames to provide a basic reference model then updates the model and detects abnormal events in the current frame. We finally apply the method to detect abnormal events on a benchmark video surveillance dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.