This paper presents an approach to detect and track groups of people in video-surveillance applications, and to automatically recognize their behavior. This method keeps track of individuals moving together by maintaining a spacial and temporal group coherence. First, people are individually detected and tracked. Second, their trajectories are analyzed over a temporal window and clustered using the Mean-Shift algorithm. A coherence value describes how well a set of people can be described as a group. Furthermore, we propose a formal event description language. The group events recognition approach is successfully validated on 4 camera views from 3 datasets: an airport, a subway, a shopping center corridor and an entrance hall.
@article{arxiv.1206.5065,
title = {A generic framework for video understanding applied to group behavior recognition},
author = {Sofia Zaidenberg and Bernard Boulay and François Bremond},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5065},
year = {2013}
}