A patch-based framework for detecting abnormal activities with a PTZ camera

In this paper, a novel patch-based (PB) framework is proposed for detecting abnormal activities using a Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) camera. We first propose a new scene-patch-based (SSB) algorithm which can efficiently extract the target object's global trajectory from the PTZ camera. Furthermore, we propose an extended network-based (ENB) algorithm for detecting abnormal activities. The proposed ENB algorithm models the entire scene as a network where each node in the network corresponds to a patch of the scene and each edge between nodes corresponds to the activity correlation between the scene patchs. Based on this network, a recursive training strategy is proposed to train the edge weights in the network such that abnormal activities can be effectively detected through these trained edge weights. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework.