Detecting free standing conversational group in video using fuzzy relations

Abstract

In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, surveillance-video crowded scenes have been analysed according to their structure, where the detection of distinguishable people groups is an essential step. In this paper, we are interested in detecting F-Formations (i.e. free standing conversational groups) on video, which are formed by people social relations. We proposed a new method based on fuzzy relations, where a new social representation for computing relation between individuals, fusion for search consensus in multiple frame and clustering are introduced. Finally, our proposal was tested in a real-world dataset, improving the already reported scores from literature.