DocumentCode :
3348130
Title :
A fast approach to novelty detection in video streams using recursive density estimation
Author :
Ramezani, Ramin ; Angelov, Plamen ; Zhou, Xiaowei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Syst., Lancaster Univ., Lancaster
Volume :
2
fYear :
2008
fDate :
6-8 Sept. 2008
Abstract :
Video-based surveillance and security become extremely important in the new, 21st century for human safety, counter-terrorism, traffic control etc. Visual novelty detection and tracking are key elements of such activities. The current state-of-the-art approaches often suffer from high computational, memory storage costs and from not being fully automated (they usually require a human operator in the loop). This paper introduces a new approach to the problem of novelty detection in video streams that is based on recursive, and therefore, computationally efficient density estimation by a Cauchy type of kernel (as opposed to the usually used Gaussian one). The idea of the proposed approach stems from the recently introduced evolving clustering approach, eClustering and is suitable for online and real-time applications in fully autonomous and unsupervised systems as a stand-alone novelty detector or for priming a tracking algorithm. The approach proposed in this paper has evolving property - it can gradually update the background model and the criteria to detect novelty by unsupervised online learning. The proposed approach is faster by an order of magnitude than the well known kernel density estimation (KDE) method for background subtraction, while having has adaptive characteristics, and does not need any threshold to be pre-specified. Recursive expressions similar to the proposed approach in this paper can also be applied to image segmentation and landmark recognition used for self-localization in robotics. If combined with a real-time prediction using Kalman filter or evolving Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models a fast and fully autonomous tracking system can be realized with potential applications in surveillance and robotic systems.
Keywords :
image recognition; image segmentation; object detection; pattern clustering; recursive estimation; unsupervised learning; video streaming; video surveillance; Kalman filter; Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model; eclustering approach; image segmentation; kernel density estimation; recursive density estimation; robotic system; tracking algorithm; unsupervised online learning; video streaming; video-based surveillance; visual novelty detection; Humans; Kernel; Real time systems; Recursive estimation; Robots; Safety; Security; Streaming media; Surveillance; Traffic control;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Systems, 2008. IS '08. 4th International IEEE Conference
Conference_Location :
Varna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1739-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1740-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IS.2008.4670523
Filename :
4670523
Link To Document :
بازگشت