Summary of Utrand: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Traffic Trajectories, by Giacomo D’amicantonio et al.
uTRAND: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Traffic Trajectories
by Giacomo D’Amicantonio, Egor Bondarau, Peter H.N. de With
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a framework called uTRAND to improve deep learning-based anomaly detection in videos. The current approaches perform well on public datasets but struggle in real-world applications. To address this issue, the framework shifts the problem from pixel space to semantic-topological domain and detects all types of traffic agents in bird’s-eye-view videos. The paper demonstrates that uTRAND learns normal behavior without manual labeling and formulates simple rules for anomalous trajectory classification. It outperforms other state-of-the-art approaches on a real-world dataset while producing explainable detection results. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper solves two big problems: we don’t have enough labeled data, and it’s hard to understand why AI systems make certain predictions. The solution is called uTRAND, which makes it easier to detect unusual events in videos of traffic cameras. Instead of looking at every single pixel, the system looks at the bigger picture – what kind of movement is normal for cars, pedestrians, and bikes? It learns from this information without needing human help and can tell us why certain events are unusual. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Anomaly detection * Classification * Deep learning
