title: Anomaly detection based on local nearest neighbor distance descriptor in crowded scenes.
abstract: We propose a novel local nearest neighbor distance (LNND) descriptor for anomaly detection in crowded scenes. Comparing with the commonly used low-level feature descriptors in previous works, LNND descriptor has two major advantages. First, LNND descriptor efficiently incorporates spatial and temporal contextual information around the video event that is important for detecting anomalous interaction among multiple events, while most existing feature descriptors only contain the information of single event. Second, LNND descriptor is a compact representation and its dimensionality is typically much lower than the low-level feature descriptor. Therefore, not only the computation time and storage requirement can be accordingly saved by using LNND descriptor for the anomaly detection method with offline training fashion, but also the negative aspects caused by using high-dimensional feature descriptor can be avoided. We validate the effectiveness of LNND descriptor by conducting extensive experiments on different benchmark datasets. Experimental results show the promising performance of LNND-based method against the state-of-the-art methods. It is worthwhile to notice that the LNND-based approach requires less intermediate processing steps without any subsequent processing such as smoothing but achieves comparable event better performance.
authors.affiliation: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dongchuan Road, No. 800, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Xing
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-1930-0372
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dongchuan Road, No. 800, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Shiqiang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dongchuan Road, No. 800, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-0120-8220
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dongchuan Road, No. 800, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Huanlong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dongchuan Road, No. 800, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Lingkun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Luo
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