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Spatio-Temporal Motion Pattern Models of Extremely Crowded Scenes
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Spatio-Temporal Motion Pattern Models of Extremely Crowded Scenes

Louis Kratz and Ko Nishino
Machine Learning for Vision-Based Motion Analysis, pp 263-274
01 Jan 2011

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Computer Science Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Science & Technology Technology
Extremely crowded scenes present unique challenges to motion-based video analysis due to the large quantity of pedestrians within the scene and the frequent occlusions they produce. The movement of pedestrians, however, collectively form a spatially and temporally structured pattern in the motion of the crowd. In this work, we present a novel statistical framework for modeling this structured pattern, or steady-state, of the motion in extremely crowded scenes. Our key insight is to model the motion of the crowd by the spatial and temporal variations of local spatio-temporal motion patterns exhibited by pedestrians within the scene. We divide the video into local spatio-temporal sub-volumes and represent the movement through each sub-volume with a local spatio-temporal motion pattern. We then derive a novel, distribution-based hidden Markov model to encode the temporal variations of local spatio-temporal motion patterns. We demonstrate that by capturing the steady-state of the motion within the scene, we can naturally detect unusual activities as statistical deviations in videos with complex activities that are hard for even human observers to analyze.

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