Title
Weakly Supervised Violence Detection in Surveillance Video
Date Issued
01 June 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Choqueluque-Roman D.
Federal University of Ouro Preto
Publisher(s)
MDPI
Abstract
Automatic violence detection in video surveillance is essential for social and personal security. Monitoring the large number of surveillance cameras used in public and private areas is challenging for human operators. The manual nature of this task significantly increases the possibility of ignoring important events due to human limitations when paying attention to multiple targets at a time. Researchers have proposed several methods to detect violent events automatically to overcome this problem. So far, most previous studies have focused only on classifying short clips without performing spatial localization. In this work, we tackle this problem by proposing a weakly supervised method to detect spatially and temporarily violent actions in surveillance videos using only video-level labels. The proposed method follows a Fast-RCNN style architecture, that has been temporally extended. First, we generate spatiotemporal proposals (action tubes) leveraging pre-trained person detectors, motion appearance (dynamic images), and tracking algorithms. Then, given an input video and the action proposals, we extract spatiotemporal features using deep neural networks. Finally, a classifier based on multiple-instance learning is trained to label each action tube as violent or non-violent. We obtain similar results to the state of the art in three public databases Hockey Fight, RLVSD, and RWF-2000, achieving an accuracy of 97.3%, 92.88%, 88.7%, respectively.
Volume
22
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Temas sociales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85132073961
PubMed ID
Source
Sensors
ISSN of the container
14248220
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