An Analysis Method of Crowd Abnormal Behavior for Video Service Robot

Abstract

Abnormal behavior analysis in crowded scenes is a challenging task in the computer vision field. Determining how to quickly and accurately locate abnormal behavior in a crowd, especially in airports, shopping malls, stations, and other practical application scenarios, has become the key to the timely handling of mass incidents. The authors have developed an embedded video analysis robot capable of local processing for crowd anomaly detection in application scenarios. In recent years, many methods of crowd anomaly detection have been proposed by scholars, but the performance of these methods when applied to video service robots is unsatisfactory. In this paper, an anomaly analysis method based on improved k-means is proposed. This method combines mean shift and the k-means classification method to achieve rapid and accurate crowd anomaly detection. A quantitative experimental evaluation was carried out on a video service robot, and the results demonstrate that the method is effective for the detection of abnormal behavior on multiple and publicly available video sequences.