Anomaly detection in crowded scenes is an important and challenging part of the intelligent video surveillance system. As the deep neural networks make success in feature representation, the features extracted by a deep neural network represent the appearance and motion patterns in different scenes more specifically, comparing with the hand-crafted features typically used in the traditional anomaly detection approaches. In this paper, we propose a new baseline framework of anomaly detection for complex surveillance scenes based on a variational auto-encoder with convolution kernels to learn feature representations. Firstly, the raw frames series are provided as input to our variational auto-encoder without any preprocessing to learn the appearance and motion features of the receptive fields. Then, multiple Gaussian models are used to predict the anomaly scores of the corresponding receptive fields. Our proposed two-stage anomaly detection system is evaluated on the video surveillance dataset for a large scene, UCSD pedestrian datasets, and yields competitive performance compared with state-of-the-art methods.

Following the development of wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN), the coverage of the sensors in the network constitutes one of the key technologies that have a significant influence on the monitoring ability, quality of service, and network lifetime. The application environment of WMSN is always a complex surface, such as a hilly surface, that would likely cause monitoring shadowing problems. In this study, a new coverage-enhancing algorithm is presented to achieve an optimal coverage ratio of WMSN based on three-dimensional (3D) complex surfaces. By aiming at the complex surface, the use of a 3D sensing model, including a sensor monitoring model and a surface map calculation algorithm, is proposed to calculate the WMSN coverage information in an accurate manner. The coverage base map allowed the efficient estimation of the degree of monitoring occlusion efficiently and improved the system’s accuracy. To meet the requests of complex 3D surface monitoring tasks for multiple sensors, we propose a modified cuckoo search algorithm that considers the features of the WMSN coverage problem and combines the survival of the fittest, dynamic discovery probability, and the self-adaptation strategy of rotation. The evaluation outcomes demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can describe the 3D covering field but also improve both the coverage quality and efficiency of the WMSN on a complex surface.

Our software synthesis tool, CSP++, generates C++ source code from verifiable CSPm specifications, and includes a framework for runtime execution. Our technique of selective formalism allows the synthesized formal control backbone code to be linked with non-formal user-coded C++ functions that carry out I/O and data processing. This tool already facilitates rapid prototyping of formally-specified software by bypassing the customary manual translation from a formal notation. In this work, we extend the rapid prototyping capability to SOPC (system on programmable chip) by targeting the CSP++ execution framework to an FPGA processor core. This is demonstrated with a new point-of-sale case study.

An autoencoder is trained to generate the background from the surveillance image by setting the training label as the shuffled input, instead of the input itself in a traditional autoencoder. Then the multi-scale features are extracted by a sparse autoencoder from the surveillance image and the corresponding background to detect foreground.

A robust pedestrian detection approach in thermal infrared imageries for an all-day surveillance is proposed. Firstly, the candidate regions which are likely to contain pedestrians are extracted based on a saliency detection method. Then a deep convolutional network with a multi-task loss is constructed to recognize the pedestrians. The experimental results show the superiority of the proposed approach in pedestrian detection.