Motion pattern analysis in crowded scenes based on hybrid generative-discriminative feature maps

Crowded scene analysis is becoming increasingly popular in computer vision field. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to analyze motion patterns by clustering the hybrid generative-discriminative feature maps using unsupervised hierarchical clustering algorithm. The hybrid generative-discriminative feature maps are derived by posterior divergence based on the tracklets which are captured by tracking dense points with three effective rules. The feature maps effectively associate low-level features with the semantical motion patterns by exploiting the hidden information in crowded scenes. Motion pattern analyzing is implemented in a completely unsupervised way and the feature maps are clustered automatically through hierarchical clustering algorithm building on the basis of graphic model. The experiment results precisely reveal the distributions of motion patterns in current crowded videos and demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.