Abnormal events detection using unsupervised One-Class SVM - Application to audio surveillance and evaluation -

Sebastien Lecomte (1) , Régis Lengellé (1) , Cédric Richard (2) , Francois Capman (3) , Bertrand Ravera (3)

1 LM2S - Laboratoire Modélisation et Sûreté des Systèmes
2 FIZEAU - Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau
3 Thales Communications [Colombes]

This paper proposes an unsupervised method for real time detection of abnormal events in the context of audio surveillance. Based on training a One-Class Support Vector Machine (OC-SVM) to model the distribution of the normality (ambience), we propose to construct sets of decision functions. This modification allows controlling the trade-off between false-alarm and miss probabilities without modifying the trained OC-SVM that best capture the ambience boundaries, or its hyperparameters. Then we present an adaptive online scheme of temporal integration of the decision function output in order to increase performance and robustness. We also introduce a framework to generate databases based on real signals for the evaluation of audio surveillance systems. Finally, we present the performances obtained on the generated database.

Domains: Signal and Image processing

Sebastien Lecomte, Régis Lengellé, Cédric Richard, Francois Capman, Bertrand Ravera. Abnormal events detection using unsupervised One-Class SVM - Application to audio surveillance and evaluation -. 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Aug 2011, Klagenfurt, Austria. pp.124-129, ⟨10.1109/AVSS.2011.6027306⟩. ⟨hal-02297236⟩