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ECVision indexed and annotated bibliography of cognitive computer vision publications
This bibliography was created by Hilary Buxton and Benoit Gaillard, University of Sussex, as part of ECVision Specific Action 8-1
The complete text version of this BibTeX file is available here: ECVision_bibliography.bib


A. Galata and A. G. Cohn and D. Magee and D. Hogg
Modeling Interaction Using learnt Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Relations and Variable Length Marov models

ABSTRACT

Motivated by applications such as automated visual surveillance and video monitoring and annotation, there has been a lot of interest in constructing cognitive vision systems capable of interpreting the high level semantics of dynamic scenes. In this paper we present a novel approach for automatically inferring models of object interactions that can be used to interpret observed behaviour within a scene. A real-time low-level computer vision system, together with an attentional control mechanism, are used to identify incidents or events that occur in the scene. A data driven approach has been taken in order to automatically infer discrete and abstract representations (symbols) of primitive object interactions; effectively the system learns a set of qualitative spatial relations relevant to the dynamic behaviour of the domain. These symbols then form the alphabet of a VLMM which automatically infers the high level structure of typical interactive behaviour. The learnt behaviour model has generative capabilities and is also capable of recognizing typical or atypical activities within a scene. Experiments have been performed within the traffic monitoring domain; however the proposed method is applicable to the general automatic surveillance task since it does not assume a priori knowledge of a specific domain.


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