Unusual Events Detection via Global Optical Flow and SVM

Authors

  • Sujatha S Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering , Srinivas Institute of Technology, India
  • Mendonca AE Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering , Srinivas Institute of Technology, India

Keywords:

Unusual event detection, Optical Flow, Histogram of Optical Flow Orientation (HOFO), one-class SVM, k nearest neighbor (kNN)

Abstract

Detection of unusual events in video streams, for the purpose of investigation and security is a challenging technology in crowded scenes. To address this issues, an algorithm is proposed, which is based on Histogram of Optical Flow Orientation image descriptor and nonlinear one-class SVM classification method. The optical flow method is computed at each pixel to extract the low-level features. Histogram of Optical Flow Orientation descriptor encoding the global moving information of each frame and one-class support vector machine classifier detects the unusual events in the current frame, after learning period distinguishing the common behaviors of the training frame. k nearest neighbor classifier is used to classify the abnormal frames in video streams. Further, by combining the background subtraction step and optical flow computation, a improved version of the detection algorithm is designed. This proposed method works on several benchmark datasets to detect unusual events. Histogram of optical flow orientation with nonlinear one-class SVM classifier shows the high performance result than, k nearest neighbor classifier with histogram of optical flow orientation.

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2025-11-11

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[1]
S. Sujatha and A. E. Mendonca, “Unusual Events Detection via Global Optical Flow and SVM”, Int. J. Comp. Sci. Eng., vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 179–183, Nov. 2025.