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Review: A review of novelty detection

The Oxford handbook of thinking and reasoning

Background modeling is currently used to detect moving objects in video acquired from static cameras. Numerous statistical methods have been developed over the recent years. The aim of this paper is firstly to provide an extended and updated survey of the recent researches and patents which concern statistical background modeling and secondly to achieve a comparative evaluation. For this, we firstly classified the statistical methods in terms of category. Then, the original methods are reminded and discussed following the challenges met in video sequences. We classified their respective improvements in terms of strategies used. Furthermore, we discussed them in terms of the critical situations they claim to handle. Finally, we conclude with several promising directions for future research. The survey also discussed relevant patents.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00644746/document

Recent Advanced Statistical Background Modeling for Foreground Detection - A Systematic Survey

Recently, surveillance, security, patrol, search, and rescue applications increasingly require algorithms and methods that can work automatically in real time. This paper reports a new real-time approach based on three novel techniques for automatic detection, object identification, and tracking in video streams, respectively. The novelty detection and object identification are based on the newly proposed recursive density estimation (RDE) method. RDE is using a Cauchy-type of kernel, which is calculated recursively as opposed to the widely used (in particular in the kernel density estimation (KDE) approach) Gaussian one. The key difference is that the proposed approach works on a per frame basis and does not require a window (usually of size of several dozen) of frames to be stored in the memory and processed. It should be noted that the new RDE approach is free from user- or problem-specific thresholds by differ from the other state-of-the-art approaches. Finally, an evolving Takagi–Sugeno (eTS)-type fuzzy system is proposed for tracking. The proposed approach has been compared with KDE and Kalman filter (KF) and has proven to be significantly (in an order of magnitude) faster and computationally more efficient than RDE and more precise than KF. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

An approach to automatic real-time novelty detection, object identification, and tracking in video streams based on recursive density estimation and evolving Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy systems

Post-click conversion rate (CVR) estimation is a critical task in e-commerce recommender systems. This task is deemed quite challenging under industrial setting with two major issues: 1) selection bias caused by user self-selection, and 2) data sparsity due to the rare click events. A successful conversion typically has the following sequential events: ”exposure → click → conversion”. Conventional CVR estimators are trained in the click space, but inference is done in the entire exposure space. They fail to account for the causes of the missing data and treat them as missing at random. Hence, their estimations are highly likely to deviate from the real values by large. In addition, the data sparsity issue can also handicap many industrial CVR estimators which usually have large parameter spaces. In this paper, we propose two principled, efficient and highly effective CVR estimators for industrial CVR estimation, namely, Multi-IPW and Multi-DR. The proposed models approach the CVR estimation from a causal perspective and account for the causes of missing not at random. In addition, our methods are based on the multi-task learning framework and mitigate the data sparsity issue. Extensive experiments on industrial-level datasets show that our methods outperform the state-of-the-art CVR models.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3366423.3380037

Large-scale Causal Approaches to Debiasing Post-click Conversion Rate Estimation with Multi-task Learning

Autonomous systems for surveillance, security, patrol, search and rescue are the focal point of extensive research and interest from defense and the security related industry, traffic control and other institutions. A range of sensors can be used to detect and track objects, but optical cameras or camcorders are often considered due to their convenience and passive nature. Tracking based on color intensity information is often preferred than the motion cues due to being more robust. The technique presented in this paper can also be used in conjunction with infra-red cameras, 3D lasers which result in a grey scale image. Novelty detection and tracking are two of the key elements of such systems. Most of the currently reported techniques are characterized by high computational, memory storage costs and are not autonomous because they usually require a human operator in the loop. This paper presents new approaches to both the problem of novelty detection and object tracking in video streams. These approaches are rooted in the recursive techniques that are computationally efficient and therefore potentially applicable in real-time. A novel approach for recursive density estimation (RDE) using a Cauchy type of kernel (as opposed to the usually used Gaussian one) is proposed for visual novelty detection and the use of the recently introduced evolving Takagi-Sugeno (eTS) neuro-fuzzy system for tracking the object detected by the RDE approach is proposed as opposed to the usually used Kalman filter (KF). In fact, eTS can be seen as a fuzzily weighted mixture of KF. The proposed technique is significantly faster than the well known kernel density estimation (KDE) approach for background subtraction for novelty detection and is more precise than the usually used KF. Additionally the overall approach removes the need of manually selecting the object to be tracked which makes possible a fully autonomous system for novelty detection and tracking to be developed.

Autonomous novelty detection and object tracking in video streams using evolving clustering and Takagi-Sugeno type neuro-fuzzy system

Video-based surveillance and security become extremely important in the new, 21st century for human safety, counter-terrorism, traffic control etc. Visual novelty detection and tracking are key elements of such activities. The current state-of-the-art approaches often suffer from high computational, memory storage costs and from not being fully automated (they usually require a human operator in the loop). This paper introduces a new approach to the problem of novelty detection in video streams that is based on recursive, and therefore, computationally efficient density estimation by a Cauchy type of kernel (as opposed to the usually used Gaussian one). The idea of the proposed approach stems from the recently introduced evolving clustering approach, eClustering and is suitable for online and real-time applications in fully autonomous and unsupervised systems as a stand-alone novelty detector or for priming a tracking algorithm. The approach proposed in this paper has evolving property - it can gradually update the background model and the criteria to detect novelty by unsupervised online learning. The proposed approach is faster by an order of magnitude than the well known kernel density estimation (KDE) method for background subtraction, while having has adaptive characteristics, and does not need any threshold to be pre-specified. Recursive expressions similar to the proposed approach in this paper can also be applied to image segmentation and landmark recognition used for self-localization in robotics. If combined with a real-time prediction using Kalman filter or evolving Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models a fast and fully autonomous tracking system can be realized with potential applications in surveillance and robotic systems.

A fast approach to novelty detection in video streams using recursive density estimation

We investigate serendipity, or happy, accidental discoveries, in CC, and propose computational concepts related to serendipity. These include a focus-shift, a breakdown of serendipitous discovery into prepared mind, serendipity trigger, bridge and result and three dimensions of serendipity: chance, sagacity and value. We propose a definition and standards for computational serendipity and evaluate three creative systems with respect to our standards. We argue that this is an important notion in creativity and, if carefully developed and used with caution, could result in a valuable new discovery technique in CC.

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Ramin Ramezani

Papers

An approach to automatic real-time novelty detection, object identification, and tracking in video streams based on recursive density estimation and evolving Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy systems

Large-scale Causal Approaches to Debiasing Post-click Conversion Rate Estimation with Multi-task Learning

Autonomous novelty detection and object tracking in video streams using evolving clustering and Takagi-Sugeno type neuro-fuzzy system

A fast approach to novelty detection in video streams using recursive density estimation

A Discussion on Serendipity in Creative Systems