Abnormal Crowd Behavior Detection using Social Force Model

最近在学习人群异常行为检测的一些东西，看了Ramin Mehran, Alexis Oyama, Mubarak Shah的论文，Abnormal Crowd Behavior Detection using Social Force Model,
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Miami, 2009.

总结如下：

I. Introduction

One of the most challenging tasks in computer vision is analysis of human activity in crowded scenes. In addition, research in sociology and behavioral sciences provide mathematical models of pedestrian behavior patterns such as Social Force Model. In this paper, we introduce a computer vision method based on particle advection to detect and localize abnormal crowd behavior using the Social Force model.

(a) The block diagram of the abnormal behavior detection algorithm

1. Challenges of crowd behavior analysis

Conventional methods which a crowd is considered as a collection of individuals suffer from:

• Occlusion
• Clutter
• Low resolution
• Ignoring social interaction of pedestrians

2. Solution

• Considering a crowd as a global entity using particle advection method.
• Using Social Force Model to model crowd behaviors.

3. Advantages

• The holistic approach provides robustness to occlusion and clutter.
• Social Force Model endows the way to analyze crowd behaviors based on interaction forces.

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II. Social Force Model

1.Description

In Social Force Model an individua