Human reappearance detection based on on-line learning

Many video surveillance applications require detecting human reappearances in a scene monitored by a camera or over a network of cameras. This is the human reappearance detection (HRD) problem. Studying this problem is important for analyzing a surveillance scenario at semantic level. In this paper, we propose a novel online learning framework for solving HRD problem. Both generative model and discriminative model are employed in this framework and a voting scheme is presented to fuse the decisions of both models for determining whether a just entered person is one of those who have shown up, i.e. whether a reappearance happens. Both models will be updated based on mistake-driven online learning strategy. Our experimental results show that the adopted online learning framework not only improves the reappearance detection accuracy but also achieves high robustness in various surveillance scenes.