Real-time and accurate abnormal behavior detection in videos

Abstract

Abnormal crowd behavior detection is a hot research topic in the field of computer vision. In order to solve the problems of high computational cost and the imbalance between positive and negative samples, we propose an efficient algorithm that can detect and locate anomalies in videos. In order to solve the problem of less negative samples, the algorithm uses the spatiotemporal autoencoder to identify and extract the negative samples (contain abnormal behaviors) in the dataset in an unsupervised learning method. On this basis, a spatiotemporal convolutional neural network (CNN) is constructed with simple structure and low computational complexity. The supervised training method is used to train the spatiotemporal CNN with positive and negative samples to generate the detection model. Experiments are conducted on the UCSD and UMN datasets. The experiment results show that the proposed algorithm can detect and locate abnormal behaviors in real time (using only CPU), and the accuracy of the algorithm exceeds those of the existing algorithms at both the pixel level and frame level.