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Video Synopsis

Yael Pritch Alex Rav-Acha Shmuel Peleg

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Detective Series: “Elementary”

Video Surveillance Problem

• It took weeks to find these events in video archives.

• Cost of a lost information or a delay may be very high.

Terrorists, London tube, 7-7-05Cologne Train Bombs, 31-7-06

Challenges in Video Surveillance

• Millions of surveillance cameras are installed, capturing data 24/365

• Number of cameras and their resolution increases rapidly

• Not enough people to watch captured data

• Human Attention is Lost after ~20 Minutes

• Result: Recorded Video is Lost Video– Less than 1% of surveillance video is

examined

Handling Surveillance Video

• Object Detection and Tracking– Background Subtraction

• Object Recognition– Individual people

• Activity Recognition– Left luggage; Fight

• A lot of progress done. More work remains.

• Object Detection and Tracking– Background Subtraction (Assume Done)

• Object Recognition (Do not use)– Individual people

• Activity Recognition (Do not use)– Left luggage; Fight

• A lot of progress done. More work remains.

• Let People do the Recognition

Handling Surveillance VideoVideo Synopsis

Video Synopsis

Video SynopsisOriginal video

• A fast way to browse & index video archives.• Summarize a full day of video in a few minutes.• Events from different times appear simultaneously.• Human inspection of synopsis!!!

Synopsis of Surveillance VideosHuman Inspection of Search Results

• Serve queries regarding each camera:– Generate a 3 minutes video showing

most activities in the last 24 hours– Generate the shortest video showing all

activities in the last 24 hours

• Each presented activity points back to original time in the original video

• Orthogonal to Video Analytics

Non-Chronological Time

Dynamic Mosaicing Video Synopsis

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dynamic Mosaics

Non Chronological Time

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Video Synopsis and IndexingMaking a Long Video Short

• 11 million cameras in 2008• Expected 30 million in 2013• Recording 24 hours a day, every day

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Handling the Video Overflow

• Not enough people to watch captured data

• Guards are watching 1% of video

• Automatic Video Analytics covers less than 5%

– Only when events can be accurately defined & detected

• Most video is never watched or examined!!!

A Recent Example

• Key framesC. Kim and J. Hwang. An integrated scheme for object-based video abstraction. In ACM Multimedia, pages 303–311, New York, 2000.

• Collection of short video sequencesA. M. Smith and T. Kanade. Video skimming and characterization through the combination of image and

language understanding. In CAIVD, pages 61–70, 1998.

• Adaptive Fast Forward N. Petrovic, N. Jojic, and T. Huang. Adaptive video fast forward. Multimedia Tools and Applications,

26(3):327–344, August 2005.

Entire frames are used as the fundamental building blocks

• Mosaic images together with some meta-data for video indexingM. Irani, P. Anandan, J. Bergen, R. Kumar, and S. Hsu. Efficient representations of video sequences

and their applications. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 8(4):327–351, 1996.

• Space Time Video montageH. Kang, Y. Matsushita, X. Tang, and X. Chen. Space-time video montage. In CVPR’06, pages 1331–

1338, New-York, June 2006.

Related Work (Video Summary)

• We proposed Objects / Events based summary as opposed to Frames based summary– Enables to shorten a very long video

into a short time

– No fast forward of objects (preserve dynamics)

– Causality is not necessarily kept

Object Based Video Summary

Original video: 24 hours Video Synopsis: 1 minute

Video Synopsis• Browse Hours in Minutes• Index back to Original Video

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How does Video Synopsis work?

Original: 9 hours

Video Synopsis:30 seconds

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How Does Video Synopsis works

Original: 9 hours

Video Synopsis:30 seconds

• Detect and track objects, store in database.• Select relevant objects from database• Display selected objects in a very short

“Video Synopsis”• In “Video Synopsis”, objects from different

times can appear simultaneously• Index from selected objects into original video• Cluster similar objects

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Panoramic Synopsis

Panoramic synopsis is possible when the camera is rotating.

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Panoramic Video Synopsis

Endless video – Challenges

• Endless video – finite storage (“forget” events)

• Background changes during long time periods

• Stitching object on a background from a different time

• Fast response to user queries

Online Monitoring• Online Monitoring (real time)

– Compute background (background model)– Find Activity Tubes and insert to database– Handle a queue of objects

• Query Service– Collect tubes with desired properties (time…)– Generate Time Lapse Background– Pack tubes into desired length of synopsis– Stitching of objects to background

2 Phase approach

Extract TubesObject Detection and

Tracking• We used a simplification of

Background-Cut*– combining background subtraction

with min-cut

• Connect space time tubes component

• Morphological operations

* J. Sun, W. Zhang, X. Tang, and H. Shum. Background cut. In ECCV, pages 628–641, 2006

Extract Tubes

The Object Queue

• Limited Storage Space with Endless Video– May need to discard objects

• Estimate object usefulness for future queries– “Importance” (application dependent)– Collision Potential – Age: discard older objects first

• Take mistakes into account….

Query Service• Online Monitoring (real time)

– Pre-Processing : remove stationary frames– Compute background (temporal median)– Find Activity Tubes and insert to database– Handle a queue of objects

• Query Service– Collect tubes with desired properties (time…)– Generate Time Lapse Background– Pack tubes into desired length of synopsis– Stitching of objects to background

2 Phase approach

Time-Lapse Background

Time-Lapse Background

• Time Lapse background goals– Represent background changes over time– Represent the background of activity tubes

Activity distribution over time(parking lot 24 hours)

20% night frames

Tubes Selection

Guidelines for the tubes arrangement :• Maximum “activity” in synopsis• Minimum collision between objects• Preserve causality (temporal consistency)

This defines energy minimization process :

A time mapping between the input tubes and the appearance time in the output synopsis

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• Neighboring states - states in which a single activity tube changes its mapping into the synopsis.

• Initial state - all tubes are shifted to the beginning of the synopsis video.

Stitching the Synopsis

• Challenge : Different lighting for objects and background

• Assumption : Extracted tubes are surrounded with background pixels

• Our Stitching method :Modification of Poisson Editing – add weight for object to

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• Challenge : objects stitched on time lapse background with possibly different lighting condition (for example : day / night)

• Assumption : no accurate segmentation. Tubes are extracted surrounded with background pixels

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Webcam Synopsis :20 Seconds

Video Indexing


Link from the synopsis back to the original video context

synopsis can be used for video indexing



synopsis can be used for video indexing

Video Indexing


Video Indexing

Hotspot on Tracked Objects

Who soiled my lawn?

Unexpected Applications

2 hours 20 seconds

Examples

Video Synopsis Should be More Organized

Clustered SynopsisFaster and more accurate browsing

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Example: Cluster into 2 clusters based on shape

Continue Examining the ‘Car’ cluster

Clustering by Motion of ‘Cars’ ClassSynopsis now useful in crowded scenes

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• More Classes : Easy to Remove False Alarm Classes

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Creating Video Synopsis

• Goals – Video Synopsis Having Shortest Duration– Minimal Collision Between Objects

• Approach– Displaying clustered objects together– Objects packed in space-time like sardines

Packing Cost Example• Packing cars on the top road

Affinity Matrix after Clustering

Arranged Cluster 1 Arranged Cluster 2

Combining Two Clusters

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An Important Application:Display Results of Video Analytics

• Display the hundreds of “Blue Cars”

• Display thousands of people going left

• Good for verification of algorithm as well as for

deployment

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Camera in St. Petersburg

• Detect specific events• Discover activity patterns

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Camera in China

Automatically Generated ClustersUsing Only Shape & Motion

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