Handling uncertainty for video event recognition

This paper presents a cognitive vision approach for video event recognition able of handling the uncertainty of the recognition process. The recognition task is complex because of image noise, of segmentation and classification issues. In this work, we extend the event recognition algorithm (crisp algorithm) proposed in [1] by proposing a geometric method which handles the uncertainty of the recognition process. This method consists in computing the precision of the 3D information of the mobile objects evolving in the scene for each frame of the video sequence. We use the computed information to calculate the probability of the event. The proposed method is tested with videos of everyday activities of elderly people. Events of interest have been modeled with the help of medical experts (i.e. gerontologists). The experimental results show that the proposed approach improves significantly the process of recognition and can characterize the likelihood of the recognized events.