Crowd Anomaly Detection via Spatial Constraints and Meaningful Perturbation

Crowd anomaly detection is a practical and challenging problem to computer vision and VideoGIS due to abnormal events’ rare and diverse nature. Consequently, traditional methods rely on low-level reconstruction in a single image space, easily affected by unimportant pixels or sudden variations. In a...

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Main Authors: Jiangfan Feng, Dini Wang, Li Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
Series:ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/11/3/205
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description Crowd anomaly detection is a practical and challenging problem to computer vision and VideoGIS due to abnormal events’ rare and diverse nature. Consequently, traditional methods rely on low-level reconstruction in a single image space, easily affected by unimportant pixels or sudden variations. In addition, real-time detection for crowd anomaly detection is challenging, and localization of anomalies requires other supervision. We present a new detection approach to learn spatiotemporal features with the spatial constraints of a still dynamic image. First, a lightweight spatiotemporal autoencoder has been proposed, capable of real-time image reconstruction. Second, we offer a dynamic network to obtain a compact representation of video frames in motion, reducing false-positive anomaly alerts by spatial constraints. In addition, we adopt the perturbation visual interpretation method for anomaly visualization and localization to improve the credibility of the results. In experiments, our results provide competitive performance across various scenarios. Besides, our approach can process 52.9–63.4 fps in anomaly detection, making it practical for crowd anomaly detection in video surveillance.
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spelling doaj.art-5aea0c0183aa4d07ba51cda090f289f92023-11-24T01:28:49ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642022-03-0111320510.3390/ijgi11030205Crowd Anomaly Detection via Spatial Constraints and Meaningful PerturbationJiangfan Feng0Dini Wang1Li Zhang2College of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, ChinaCrowd anomaly detection is a practical and challenging problem to computer vision and VideoGIS due to abnormal events’ rare and diverse nature. Consequently, traditional methods rely on low-level reconstruction in a single image space, easily affected by unimportant pixels or sudden variations. In addition, real-time detection for crowd anomaly detection is challenging, and localization of anomalies requires other supervision. We present a new detection approach to learn spatiotemporal features with the spatial constraints of a still dynamic image. First, a lightweight spatiotemporal autoencoder has been proposed, capable of real-time image reconstruction. Second, we offer a dynamic network to obtain a compact representation of video frames in motion, reducing false-positive anomaly alerts by spatial constraints. In addition, we adopt the perturbation visual interpretation method for anomaly visualization and localization to improve the credibility of the results. In experiments, our results provide competitive performance across various scenarios. Besides, our approach can process 52.9–63.4 fps in anomaly detection, making it practical for crowd anomaly detection in video surveillance.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/11/3/205VideoGISspatiotemporalgeospatial artificial intelligencespatial constraintsdeep learning
spellingShingle Jiangfan Feng
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Crowd Anomaly Detection via Spatial Constraints and Meaningful Perturbation
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
VideoGIS
spatiotemporal
geospatial artificial intelligence
spatial constraints
deep learning
title Crowd Anomaly Detection via Spatial Constraints and Meaningful Perturbation
title_full Crowd Anomaly Detection via Spatial Constraints and Meaningful Perturbation
title_fullStr Crowd Anomaly Detection via Spatial Constraints and Meaningful Perturbation
title_full_unstemmed Crowd Anomaly Detection via Spatial Constraints and Meaningful Perturbation
title_short Crowd Anomaly Detection via Spatial Constraints and Meaningful Perturbation
title_sort crowd anomaly detection via spatial constraints and meaningful perturbation
topic VideoGIS
spatiotemporal
geospatial artificial intelligence
spatial constraints
deep learning
url https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/11/3/205
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