A review of state-of-the-art techniques for abnormal human activity recognition

Abstract

The concept of intelligent visual identification of abnormal human activity has raised the standards of surveillance systems, situation cognizance, homeland safety and smart environments. However, abnormal human activity is highly diverse in itself due to the aspects such as (a) the fundamental definition of anomaly (b) feature representation of an anomaly, (c) its application, and henceforth (d) the dataset. This paper aims to summarize various existing abnormal human activity recognition (AbHAR) handcrafted and deep approaches with the variation of the type of information available such as two-dimensional or three-dimensional data. Features play a vital role in an excellent performance of an AbHAR system. The proposed literature provides feature designs of abnormal human activity recognition in a video with respect to the context or application such as fall detection, Ambient Assistive Living (AAL), homeland security, surveillance or crowd analysis using RGB, depth and skeletal evidence. The key contributions and limitations of every feature design technique, under each category: 2D and 3D AbHAR, in respective contexts are tabulated that will provide insight of various abnormal action detection approaches. Finally, the paper outlines newly added datasets for AbHAR by the researchers with added complexities for method validations.