The detection of abnormal behaviours in crowded scenes has to deal with many challenges. This paper presents an efficient method for detection and localization of anomalies in videos. Using fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) and temporal data, a pre-trained supervised FCN is transferred into an unsupervised FCN ensuring the detection of (global) anomalies in scenes. High performance in terms of speed and accuracy is achieved by investigating the cascaded detection as a result of reducing computation complexities. This FCN-based architecture addresses two main tasks, feature representation and cascaded outlier detection. Experimental results on two benchmarks suggest that detection and localization of the proposed method outperforms existing methods in terms of accuracy.
@cite_11 , the histogram of oriented tracklets (HOT) is used for video representation and anomaly detection. A new strategy for improving HOT is also introduced in this paper. @cite_62 propose an informative structural context descriptor (SCD) to represent a crowd individually. In this work, a (spatial-temporal) SCD variation of a crowd is analyzed to localize the anomaly region.
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Recently the histogram of oriented tracklets (HOT) was shown to be an efficient video representation for abnormality detection and achieved state-of-the-arts on the available datasets. Unlike standard video descriptors that mainly employ low level motion features, e.g. optical flow, the HOT descriptor simultaneously encodes magnitude and orientation of tracklets as a mid-level representation over crowd motions. However, extracting tracklets in HOT suffers from poor salient point initialization and tracking drift in the presence of occlusion. Moreover, count-based HOT histogramming does not properly take into account the motion characteristics of abnormal motions. This paper extends the HOT by addressing these drawbacks introducing an enhanced version of HOT, named Improved HOT. First, we propose to initialize salient points in each frame instead of the first frame, as the HOT does. Second, we replace the naive count-based histogramming by the richer statistics of crowd movement (i.e., motion distribution). The evaluation of the Improved HOT on different datasets, namely UCSD, BEHAVE and UMN, yields compelling results in abnormality detection, by outperforming the original HOT and the state-of-the-art descriptors based on optical flow, dense trajectories and the social force models. This paper presents a novel video descriptor, referred to as Histogram of Oriented Track lets, for recognizing abnormal situation in crowded scenes. Unlike standard approaches that use optical flow, which estimates motion vectors only from two successive frames, we built our descriptor over long-range motion trajectories which is called track lets in the literature. Following the standard procedure, we divided video sequences in spatio-temporal cuboids within which we collected statistics on the track lets passing through them. In particular, we quantized orientation and magnitude in a 2-dimensional histogram which encodes the motion patterns expected in each cuboid. We classify frames as normal and abnormal by using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Support Vector Machines. We evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed descriptors on three datasets: UCSD, Violence in Crowds and UMN. The experiments demonstrated (i) very promising results in abnormality detection, (ii) setting new state-of-the-art on two of them, and (iii) outperforming former descriptors based on the optical flow, dense trajectories and the social force model. Abnormal behavior detection in crowd scenes is continuously a challenge in the field of computer vision. For tackling this problem, this paper starts from a novel structure modeling of crowd behavior. We first propose an informative structural context descriptor (SCD) for describing the crowd individual, which originally introduces the potential energy function of particle’s interforce in solid-state physics to intuitively conduct vision contextual cueing. For computing the crowd SCD variation effectively, we then design a robust multi-object tracker to associate the targets in different frames, which employs the incremental analytical ability of the 3-D discrete cosine transform (DCT). By online spatial-temporal analyzing the SCD variation of the crowd, the abnormality is finally localized. Our contribution mainly lies on three aspects: 1) the new exploration of abnormal detection from structure modeling where the motion difference between individuals is computed by a novel selective histogram of optical flow that makes the proposed method can deal with more kinds of anomalies; 2) the SCD description that can effectively represent the relationship among the individuals; and 3) the 3-D DCT multi-object tracker that can robustly associate the limited number of (instead of all) targets which makes the tracking analysis in high density crowd situation feasible. Experimental results on several publicly available crowd video datasets verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Recently, methods with learning procedure have been widely used to solve person re-identification (re-id) problem. However, most existing databases for re-id are smallscale, therefore, over-fitting is likely to occur. To further improve the performance, we propose a novel method by fusing multiple local features and exploring their structural information on different levels. The proposed method is called Structural Constraints Enhanced Feature Accumulation (SCEFA). Three local features (i.e., Hierarchical Weighted Histograms (HWH), Gabor Ternary Pattern HSV (GTP-HSV), Maximally Stable Color Regions (MSCR)) are used. Structural information of these features are deeply explored in three levels: pixel, blob, and part. The matching algorithms corresponding to the features are also discussed. Extensive experiments conducted on three datasets: VIPeR, ETHZ and our own challenging dataset MCSSH, show that our approach outperforms stat-of-the-art methods significantly.