Attribute based spatio-temporal person retrieval in video surveillance

Many venues, such as airports, railway stations, and shopping malls, have video surveillance systems for security and monitoring. However, searching for and retrieving people based on attribute descriptions in a large number of videos is difficult, particularly with weather variations and crowded pl...

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Main Authors: Rasha Shoitan, Mona M. Moussa, Heba A. El Nemr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:Alexandria Engineering Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822005105
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description Many venues, such as airports, railway stations, and shopping malls, have video surveillance systems for security and monitoring. However, searching for and retrieving people based on attribute descriptions in a large number of videos is difficult, particularly with weather variations and crowded places. Most of the existing attribute-based person retrieval systems consist of two main modules: object detection and person attribute recognition. The common drawbacks of object detection in the existing methods are false-positive, missing detection, and multi bounding boxes for the same object. Moreover, attribute recognition algorithms suffer from low accuracy for a single attribute classifier, while attributes error spread in the cascading multi-attribute classifier. This paper overcomes these issues by applying the ByteTrack algorithm instead of object detection to exploit the person's spatio-temporal information and generate a tube that maintains all the boxes that include the objects and associates high and low score boxes of the objects without raising false positive detection. Also, linking each person bounding boxes together results in more accurate attributes recognition than defining the attributes of each bounding box separately. Moreover, the proposed algorithm merges between selected predictions of two attribute recognition algorithms to improve the recognition performance. An extensive empirical evaluation was carried out on the SoftBioSearch database. The simulation results reveal that the proposed retrieval algorithm provides effective retrieval performance that exceeds the best conventional method by 14%.
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spelling doaj.art-08e0c0ffa48346ffa1f5e491a229d0a12023-01-26T04:44:18ZengElsevierAlexandria Engineering Journal1110-01682023-01-0163441454Attribute based spatio-temporal person retrieval in video surveillanceRasha Shoitan0Mona M. Moussa1Heba A. El Nemr2Computer and Systems Department, Electronics Research Institute, EgyptComputer and Systems Department, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt; Corresponding author.Computer and Software Engineering, Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt; Computer and Systems Department, Electronics Research Institute, EgyptMany venues, such as airports, railway stations, and shopping malls, have video surveillance systems for security and monitoring. However, searching for and retrieving people based on attribute descriptions in a large number of videos is difficult, particularly with weather variations and crowded places. Most of the existing attribute-based person retrieval systems consist of two main modules: object detection and person attribute recognition. The common drawbacks of object detection in the existing methods are false-positive, missing detection, and multi bounding boxes for the same object. Moreover, attribute recognition algorithms suffer from low accuracy for a single attribute classifier, while attributes error spread in the cascading multi-attribute classifier. This paper overcomes these issues by applying the ByteTrack algorithm instead of object detection to exploit the person's spatio-temporal information and generate a tube that maintains all the boxes that include the objects and associates high and low score boxes of the objects without raising false positive detection. Also, linking each person bounding boxes together results in more accurate attributes recognition than defining the attributes of each bounding box separately. Moreover, the proposed algorithm merges between selected predictions of two attribute recognition algorithms to improve the recognition performance. An extensive empirical evaluation was carried out on the SoftBioSearch database. The simulation results reveal that the proposed retrieval algorithm provides effective retrieval performance that exceeds the best conventional method by 14%.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822005105Video surveillanceMulti-object trackingPerson retrievalAttributes description
spellingShingle Rasha Shoitan
Mona M. Moussa
Heba A. El Nemr
Attribute based spatio-temporal person retrieval in video surveillance
Alexandria Engineering Journal
Video surveillance
Multi-object tracking
Person retrieval
Attributes description
title Attribute based spatio-temporal person retrieval in video surveillance
title_full Attribute based spatio-temporal person retrieval in video surveillance
title_fullStr Attribute based spatio-temporal person retrieval in video surveillance
title_full_unstemmed Attribute based spatio-temporal person retrieval in video surveillance
title_short Attribute based spatio-temporal person retrieval in video surveillance
title_sort attribute based spatio temporal person retrieval in video surveillance
topic Video surveillance
Multi-object tracking
Person retrieval
Attributes description
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822005105
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