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Visual Analysis of Behaviour

From Pixels to Semantics

  • Presents a comprehensive and unified treatment of visual analysis of behaviour from computational-modelling and algorithm-design perspectives
  • Provides analysis of current benchmarking databases and commercial systems
  • Includes a helpful list of acronyms
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. About Behaviour

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 3-13
    3. Behaviour in Context

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 15-37
    4. Towards Modelling Behaviour

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 39-65
  3. Single-Object Behaviour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
    2. Understanding Facial Expression

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 69-93
    3. Modelling Gesture

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 95-131
    4. Action Recognition

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 133-160
  4. Group Behaviour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
    2. Supervised Learning of Group Activity

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 163-192
    3. Unsupervised Behaviour Profiling

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 193-213
    4. Hierarchical Behaviour Discovery

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 215-232
    5. Learning Behavioural Context

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 233-249
    6. Modelling Rare and Subtle Behaviours

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 251-266
    7. Man in the Loop

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 267-282
  5. Distributed Behaviour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283
    2. Multi-camera Behaviour Correlation

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 285-299
    3. Person Re-identification

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 301-313
    4. Connecting the Dots

      • Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang
      Pages 315-341

About this book

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of visual analysis of behaviour from computational-modelling and algorithm-design perspectives. Topics: covers learning-group activity models, unsupervised behaviour profiling, hierarchical behaviour discovery, learning behavioural context, modelling rare behaviours, and “man-in-the-loop” active learning; examines multi-camera behaviour correlation, person re-identification, and “connecting-the-dots” for abnormal behaviour detection; discusses Bayesian information criterion, Bayesian networks, “bag-of-words” representation, canonical correlation analysis, dynamic Bayesian networks, Gaussian mixtures, and Gibbs sampling; investigates hidden conditional random fields, hidden Markov models, human silhouette shapes, latent Dirichlet allocation, local binary patterns, locality preserving projection, and Markov processes; explores probabilistic graphical models, probabilistic topic models, space-time interest points, spectral clustering, and support vector machines.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“The book aims to describe, analyze, and present the problem of visual analysis of behaviour of objects, with an emphasis on behaviour of people. I have thoroughly enjoyed going through the book and find it a strong contribution to the area of computer vision and automated visual analysis. … The book is well suited for academics and researchers … and would be a great resource for implementing any of the algorithms described therein.” (Elena Corina Grigore, Perception, Vol. 42, 2013)

“This book presents a comprehensive introduction to algorithms and methodologies for representing, learning, recognizing, interpreting and predicting human behaviour, on the basis of visual data. Examples of human behaviour are given by facial expression, body gesture and human action. The book is mainly intended for readers interested in applications in the fields of visual surveillance, video indexing and search, robotics and healthcare, interaction, animation and computer games.” (Patrizio Frosini, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1238, 2012)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Shaogang Gong, Tao Xiang

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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