Poster

3D Video Visualization for Event Summarization
Yueming Yang1 Ming-Ching Chang2 Siwei Lyu1 Peter Tu2
1SUNY Albany
2GE Global Research
Poster
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Experimental Sites and Results
Motivation
• Big video data in surveillance camera networks
• Video analytics offering: detection, tracking, event recognition
• Need for comprehensive video event visualization capabilities
GE Global Research – Courtyard
• Group behavior recognition
Proposed System
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3D event visualization for video summarization
Recognition at a glance
First-person immersive replay of events (avatar view)
User interface for navigation/interaction with 3D video replay
GE Global Research – Smart Room
• Social interaction analysis
Related Works
Augmented Virtual Environment
[IWVS 2003]
3D Surveillance
[CVPRW 2006]
HouseFly
[MM '10, MIT]
Method
• 3D Model Reconstruction Using Structure from Motion (SfM)
• Site survey, preprocessing
• Key point detection, feature extraction
• RANSAC feature matching
• Sparse recon using Bundle Adjustment
• Dense correspondence by stereo matching
• Geometric modeling and texture mapping
Police Live Surveillance Site (Schenectady, NY)
Military Training Facility (Fort Benning, GA)
work in progress
work in progress
Activity tracking heat map
GE Courtyard
Software Library & Tools
GE Courtyard – synthetic top view
• Virtual to World Coordinate System Transform
Landmark point mapping:
Translation:
Rotation: solved by SVD
Scaling:
RANSAC robust estimation
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Bundler [Noah Snavely, 2006]
Visual SfM http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ [Changchang Wu, 2011]
MeshLab http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
ActiveMQ message passing http://activemq.apache.org/
VTK http://vtk.org/
This project was jointly supported by (1) grants #2013-IJ-CX-K010
awarded by the National Institute of Justice, US Department of
Justice, and (2) the SUNY Albany’s Faculty Research Award
Program (2012-2014).