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Social Signaling Descriptor for Group Behaviour Analysis

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Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2015)

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Group behaviour characterisation is a topic not so well studied in the video surveillance community due to its difficulty and large variety of topics involved, but mainly because the lack of valid semantic concepts that relate collective activity to social context. In this work, our proposal is three-fold: a new definition of semantic concepts for social group analysis considering environment context, a novel video surveillance dataset that conveys a sociological perspective, and a descriptor that emphasises social interactions cues within a group. Promising results were revealed in order to deal with such complex problem.

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Acknowledgment

This work is financed by National Funds through the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within PhD grant reference SFRH/BD/51430/2011, and post-doctoral grant SFRH/BPD/85225/2012. The authors would like to thank Amit Adam for supplying the video sequences, Kelly Rodrigues and the Social Psychology Research Group of the University of Porto for their scientific advice.

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  1. INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal

    Eduardo M. Pereira, Lucian Ciobanu & Jaime S. Cardoso

  2. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 378, 4200 - 465, Porto, Portugal

    Eduardo M. Pereira & Jaime S. Cardoso

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain

    Roberto Paredes

  2. Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Jaime S. Cardoso

  3. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Xosé M. Pardo

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Pereira, E.M., Ciobanu, L., Cardoso, J.S. (2015). Social Signaling Descriptor for Group Behaviour Analysis. In: Paredes, R., Cardoso, J., Pardo, X. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19390-8_2

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