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Regularity Learning via Explicit Distribution Modeling for Skeletal Video Anomaly Detection

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-12-09 v2

Abstract

Anomaly detection in surveillance videos is challenging and important for ensuring public security. Different from pixel-based anomaly detection methods, pose-based methods utilize highly-structured skeleton data, which decreases the computational burden and also avoids the negative impact of background noise. However, unlike pixel-based methods, which could directly exploit explicit motion features such as optical flow, pose-based methods suffer from the lack of alternative dynamic representation. In this paper, a novel Motion Embedder (ME) is proposed to provide a pose motion representation from the probability perspective. Furthermore, a novel task-specific Spatial-Temporal Transformer (STT) is deployed for self-supervised pose sequence reconstruction. These two modules are then integrated into a unified framework for pose regularity learning, which is referred to as Motion Prior Regularity Learner (MoPRL). MoPRL achieves the state-of-the-art performance by an average improvement of 4.7% AUC on several challenging datasets. Extensive experiments validate the versatility of each proposed module.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2112.03649,
  title  = {Regularity Learning via Explicit Distribution Modeling for Skeletal Video Anomaly Detection},
  author = {Shoubin Yu and Zhongyin Zhao and Haoshu Fang and Andong Deng and Haisheng Su and Dongliang Wang and Weihao Gan and Cewu Lu and Wei Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.03649},
  year   = {2021}
}
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