Activity Recognition in Social Media

Abstract

A novel approach to analyze crowd behavior at various levels of granularity - individual, group and global. We first model the collective motion of the agents present in the scene by a first order dynamical system. The model learns the spatio-temporal interaction pattern of the crowd which is further analyzed for group detection. The groups are identifiable from the eigenvectors of the interaction matrix of the model and can be recovered by employing a variant of spectral clustering on the eigenvectors. We show that while eigenvectors detect groups, the eigenvalues characterize various group activities such as stationary, walking, splitting and approaching. Finally we classify a crowd video in one of the eight categories by employing a random forest. As an application, the model is used to predict personal space violation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 29, 2015
Accession Number
ADA636907

Entities

People

  • Subhasis Chaudhuri

Organizations

  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Change Detection
  • Classification
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Graphics
  • Detection
  • Eigenvalues
  • Eigenvectors
  • Image Processing
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Recognition
  • Social Media
  • Video
  • Video Clips

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Vision.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Space