Detecting abnormal events in traffic video surveillance using superorientation optical flow feature

Abstract

Detection of abnormal events in the traffic scene is very challenging and is a significant problem in video surveillance. The authors proposed a novel scheme called super orientation optical flow (SOOF)‐based clustering for identifying the abnormal activities. The key idea behind the proposed SOOF features is to efficiently reproduce the motion information of a moving vehicle with respect to superorientation motion descriptor within the sequence of the frame. Here, the authors adopt the mean absolute temporal difference to identify the anomalies by motion block (MB) selection and localisation. SOOF features obtained from MB are used as motion descriptor for both normal and abnormal events. Simple and efficient K‐means clustering is used to study the normal motion flow during the training. The abnormal events are identified using the nearest‐neighbour searching technique in the testing phase. The experimental outcome shows that the proposed work is effectively detecting anomalies and found to give results better than the state‐of‐the‐art techniques.