Human activity localization via sequential change detection
Alexia Briassouli, Ioannis Yiannis Kompatsiaris · 2008
Today's rapid developments in digital media processing capabilities, and network speeds, make the dissemination of multimedia data extremely rapid and reliable, and have attracted significant research attention to video analysis, event detection, tracking and surveillance. In this work, a novel, generally applicable approach to the detection of human activity in video is presented. The areas of activity in the video are first detected via the accumulation and statistical processing of the motion vectors in all frames. The times (frames) at which events begin and end are defined as moments at which the statistical distribution of the motion vectors changes, for each pixel. These time instants are estimated in a novel manner, by applying sequential likelihood ratio testing on the motion vectors of the pixels that have been found to be active.