AGVS: A New Change Detection Dataset for Airport Ground Video Surveillance

Abstract

Change detection is the foundation of intelligent video surveillance of the airport ground. However, experiments have shown that change detection algorithms with good performance on traditional datasets (e.g., CDnet2014) perform poorly in airport ground surveillance. The reason is that traditional datasets focus on the diversity of scenarios, while the practical application requires robustness against various changes in a single scene. We posit that the solution to this problem is to establish a unique dataset for airport ground surveillance and develop specific algorithms for this scenario. In this paper, we present an Airport Ground Video Surveillance benchmark (AGVS) for change detection of the airport ground. AGVS includes 25 long videos, amounting to about 100000 frames and accurate ground truth for all frames. Each video contains multiple challenges specific to the airport ground (e.g., haze, camouflage, strip shape, shadow and illumination change, simultaneous multi-scale objects) and various appearance changes of the aircraft). Change detection ground truth is generated by manual annotation. The AGVS benchmark can be downloaded from <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://www.agvs-caac.com</uri> . Furthermore, we conduct a simple review of current change detection algorithms, both unsupervised or supervised, and then 21 state-of-the-art algorithms are tested and analyzed on the AGVS benchmark. Finally, we conclude with algorithm design principles of change detection for airport ground surveillance.