Video Anomaly Detection Using Open Data Filter and Domain Adaptation

Abstract

Video anomaly detection is a very challenging task because of the rarity, openness, and the definition of the anomalies. Researchers pay more attention to the characteristics of anomalies and have proposed a variety of anomaly detection models. However, most existing methods only use normal events to construct anomaly detection models and ignore the diversity and openness of normal events. Actually, because real-world video data often have an open-ended distribution, some normal patterns hardly ever appeared in the training data. In addition, analogous to human experience in identifying anomalies, rare abnormal events can play a certain role in the detection of similar abnormal events in the dataset. Therefore, assuming that a small number of abnormal events are known, we propose a novel supervised anomaly detection model which explicitly detects open normal events and open abnormal events in the dataset and treats open data and seen data with different classifiers. First, we use the training video to train an imbalanced classifier as the seen data classifier. Then, during the testing phase, an open data filter module isused to divide the test data into seen data and open data. Finally, we directly use the seen data classifier to generate anomaly scores for the seen test data. For the open test data, we adopt a domain adaptation method to reduce the distribution difference between it and the training data and train a new classifier to score for it. Extensive experimental results prove the effectiveness of our model.