Video Abnormal Segment Detection via Segmentation and PCA

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current video surveillance systems face inefficiencies in detecting abnormal events due to the reliance on model analysis, which struggles with dynamic backgrounds, leading to reduced accuracy.

Innovation Solution

A computerized system that divides video into segments, extracts features using Principal Component Analysis, differential operations, and Gaussian mixture models, and calculates abnormality scores to identify significant events regardless of background motion.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If cluster analysis is used to detect abnormal parts of video, then reliability is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates when dynamic background is present

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovereliabilityVSAvoidmeasurement precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The video is divided into multiple segments based on background change detection. Each segment is then independently processed to extract features and calculate abnormality scores. This segmentation allows the system to handle dynamic backgrounds by treating each segment separately, preventing background changes from interfering with abnormal event detection in other segments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of background motion status to create stationary background segments. By detecting background changes and creating segments based on these changes, the system transforms the dynamic background problem into a series of relatively stable segments, enabling accurate feature extraction and abnormality detection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If model analysis is used to detect abnormal events, then productivity is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates due to inability to handle dynamic backgrounds

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveproductivityVSAvoidmeasurement precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The video is divided into segments based on background stability. This segmentation enables the system to maintain high processing efficiency while improving detection accuracy, as each segment can be processed independently with appropriate methods suited to its characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms the background motion parameter to create stationary segments, allowing model analysis to function effectively. By changing the background from dynamic to stationary through segmentation, the system achieves both high productivity and accurate detection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If all video data is reviewed manually to find unusual events, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemeasurement precisionVSAvoidloss of time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and identifies abnormal segments automatically from the video data. By using feature extraction and abnormality score calculation, the system can quickly identify and separate useful abnormal events from normal video content, eliminating the need for manual review of entire video datasets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system calculates abnormality scores for each segment and uses this feedback to automatically identify and prioritize abnormal events. This feedback mechanism enables the system to efficiently filter and present only the most relevant abnormal segments, saving time while maintaining high detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8660343B2System and method of detecting abnormal segments of video
Publication Date: 2014.02.25 FU TAI HUA IND SHENZHEN
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AI summary

A system and a method of detecting abnormal or security-significant segments of a video are provided. The video is divided into several segments. A set of features of each segment of the video is extracted in order to calculate a set of factors corresponding to each segment. A value deemed abnormal of each segment is calculated according to the set of factors corresponding to each segment. One or more abnormal segments are determined from the segments based on the abnormal values. The set of features includes a color variable feature, a movement variable feature, a movement variable ratio feature and a background variable feature.