@conference {12729,
	title = {Activity recognition using the dynamics of the configuration of interacting objects},
	booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Computer Society Conference on},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003/06//},
	pages = {II - 633-40 vol.2 - II - 633-40 vol.2},
	abstract = {Monitoring activities using video data is an important surveillance problem. A special scenario is to learn the pattern of normal activities and detect abnormal events from a very low resolution video where the moving objects are small enough to be modeled as point objects in a 2D plane. Instead of tracking each point separately, we propose to model an activity by the polygonal {\textquoteright}shape{\textquoteright} of the configuration of these point masses at any time t, and its deformation over time. We learn the mean shape and the dynamics of the shape change using hand-picked location data (no observation noise) and define an abnormality detection statistic for the simple case of a test sequence with negligible observation noise. For the more practical case where observation (point locations) noise is large and cannot be ignored, we use a particle filter to estimate the probability distribution of the shape given the noisy observations up to the current time. Abnormality detection in this case is formulated as a change detection problem. We propose a detection strategy that can detect both {\textquoteright}drastic{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteright}slow{\textquoteright} abnormalities. Our framework can be directly applied for object location data obtained using any type of sensors - visible, radar, infrared or acoustic.},
	keywords = {2D, abnormal, abnormality, abnormality;, acoustic, activity, analysis;, change;, Computer, configuration, configuration;, data;, DETECTION, detection;, distribution;, drastic, dynamics;, event;, filter;, hand-picked, image, infrared, interacting, learning;, location, low, mean, model;, monitoring;, MOTION, moving, noise;, noisy, object, object;, observation, observation;, particle, pattern, plane;, point, polygonal, probability, probability;, problem;, processing;, radar, recognition;, resolution, sensor;, sensors;, sequence;, SHAPE, shape;, signal, slow, statistic;, strategy;, Surveillance, surveillance;, target, test, tracking;, video, video;, visible, vision;},
	doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2003.1211526},
	author = {Vaswani, N. and RoyChowdhury, A. and Chellapa, Rama}
}
@conference {12733,
	title = {Statistical shape theory for activity modeling},
	booktitle = {Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003. Proceedings. (ICASSP {\textquoteright}03). 2003 IEEE International Conference on},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003/04//},
	pages = {III - 493-6 vol.3 - III - 493-6 vol.3},
	abstract = {Monitoring activities in a certain region from video data is an important surveillance problem. The goal is to learn the pattern of normal activities and detect unusual ones by identifying activities that deviate appreciably from the typical ones. We propose an approach using statistical shape theory based on the shape model of D.G. Kendall et al. (see "Shape and Shape Theory", John Wiley and Sons, 1999). In a low resolution video, each moving object is best represented as a moving point mass or particle. In this case, an activity can be defined by the interactions of all or some of these moving particles over time. We model this configuration of the particles by a polygonal shape formed from the locations of the points in a frame and the activity by the deformation of the polygons in time. These parameters are learned for each typical activity. Given a test video sequence, an activity is classified as abnormal if the probability for the sequence (represented by the mean shape and the dynamics of the deviations), given the model, is below a certain threshold The approach gives very encouraging results in surveillance applications using a single camera and is able to identify various kinds of abnormal behavior.},
	keywords = {abnormal, activities, activity, analysis;, behavior;, classification;, data;, image, mass;, matching;, modeling;, monitoring;, moving, normal, particle;, pattern, pattern;, point, polygonal, probability;, problem;, processing;, sequence;, sequences;, SHAPE, shape;, signal, statistical, Surveillance, surveillance;, theory;, video},
	doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2003.1199519},
	author = {Vaswani, N. and Chowdhury, A.R. and Chellapa, Rama}
}
