Deep learning-based video anomaly detection using optimised attention-enhanced autoencoders

Anomaly detection in video is essential for applications like surveillance, healthcare, and industrial monitoring. Through the reconstruction of normal patterns and the computation of reconstruction error in relation to ground truth, convolutional autoencoders detect anomalies. Frames with errors ab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Anjali, S., Don, S.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:311974
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/311974
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/elcvia.2043
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computer vision
Video surveillance
Optimal threshold detection
Autoencoder
Deep learning
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Sumario:Anomaly detection in video is essential for applications like surveillance, healthcare, and industrial monitoring. Through the reconstruction of normal patterns and the computation of reconstruction error in relation to ground truth, convolutional autoencoders detect anomalies. Frames with errors above a threshold are flagged as abnormal. Existing approaches rely on fixed thresholds, which may not adapt well to varying lighting conditions, leading to false positives or missed anomalies. A novel autoencoder (SESAA) is proposed in this work that combines self-attention with squeeze-and-excitation (SE) blocks and improves video anomaly detection by using a thresholding technique for optimal threshold identification. Our adaptive thresholding technique leverages reconstruction cost, peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and frame brightness for optimal threshold identification, enhancing adaptability to different scenarios. Comparing with dynamic threshold methods, we assess our model using ROC and AUC metrics. Experiments on three benchmark datasets validate the efficacy of our method in precise anomaly detection through optimal thresholding.