Monitoring human and vehicle activities using airborne video

Ross Cutler; Chandra S. Shekhar; B. Burns; Rama Chellappa; Robert C. Bolles; Larry S. Davis

doi:10.1117/12.384868

5 May 2000 Monitoring human and vehicle activities using airborne video

Ross Cutler, Chandra S. Shekhar, B. Burns, Rama Chellappa, Robert C. Bolles, Larry S. Davis

Proceedings Volume 3905, 28th AIPR Workshop: 3D Visualization for Data Exploration and Decision Making; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.384868
Event: 28th AIPR Workshop: 3D Visualization for Data Exploration and Decision Making, 1999, Washington, DC, United States

Abstract

Ongoing work in Activity Monitoring (AM) for the Airborne Video Surveillance (AVS) project is described. The goal for AM is to recognize activities of interest involving humans and vehicles using airborne video. AM consists of three major components: (1) moving object detection, tracking, and classification; (2) image to site-model registration; (3) activity recognition. Detecting and tracking humans and vehicles form airborne video is a challenging problem due to image noise, low GSD, poor contrast, motion parallax, motion blur, and camera blur, and camera jitter. We use frame-to- frame affine-warping stabilization and temporally integrated intensity differences to detect independent motion. Moving objects are initially tracked using nearest-neighbor correspondence, followed by a greedy method that favors long track lengths and assumes locally constant velocity. Object classification is based on object size, velocity, and periodicity of motion. Site-model registration uses GPS information and camera/airplane orientations to provide an initial geolocation with +/- 100m accuracy at an elevation of 1000m. A semi-automatic procedure is utilized to improve the accuracy to +/- 5m. The activity recognition component uses the geolocated tracked objects and the site-model to detect pre-specified activities, such as people entering a forbidden area and a group of vehicles leaving a staging area.

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Ross Cutler, Chandra S. Shekhar, B. Burns, Rama Chellappa, Robert C. Bolles, and Larry S. Davis "Monitoring human and vehicle activities using airborne video", Proc. SPIE 3905, 28th AIPR Workshop: 3D Visualization for Data Exploration and Decision Making, (5 May 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.384868

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