# Video Surveillance of Highway Traffic Events by Deep Learning Architectures

Published in 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Rhodes, Greece, 2018

Recommended citation: Tiezzi, M., Melacci, S., Maggini, M., & Frosini, A. (2018, October). "Video Surveillance of Highway Traffic Events by Deep Learning Architectures. " International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 584-593). Springer, Cham. 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN18 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-01424-7_57

In this paper we describe a video surveillance system able to detect traffic events in videos acquired by fixed videocameras on highways. The events of interest consist in a specific sequence of situations that occur in the video, as for instance a vehicle stopping on the emergency lane. Hence, the detection of these events requires to analyze a temporal sequence in the video stream. We compare different approaches that exploit architectures based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). A first approach extracts vectors of features, mostly related to motion, from each video frame and exploits a RNN fed with the resulting sequence of vectors. The other approaches are based directly on the sequence of frames, that are eventually enriched with pixel-wise motion information. The obtained stream is processed by an architecture that stacks a CNN and a RNN, and we also investigate a transfer-learning-based model. The results are very promising and the best architecture will be tested online in real operative conditions.

Recommended citation:

@inproceedings{tiezzi2018video,
title={Video Surveillance of Highway Traffic Events by Deep Learning Architectures},
author={Tiezzi, Matteo and Melacci, Stefano and Maggini, Marco and Frosini, Angelo},
booktitle={International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks},
pages={584--593},
year={2018},
organization={Springer}
}