Social Behavior Analysis in Visual Human Monitoring System : A Survey and Perspective

TL;DR

This survey reviews visual human motion analysis techniques and discusses future perspectives for social behavior analysis in intelligent monitoring systems, emphasizing the importance of understanding social interactions for organizational evaluation.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive survey of visual surveillance methods, outlines three social interaction scenarios, and offers a perspective for developing social behavior analysis in monitoring systems.

Findings

Survey of human motion analysis in surveillance

Identification of three social interaction scenarios

Proposal of a monitoring system for social behavior evaluation

Abstract

A social behavior analysis is used to study how a group of people interacts with another group. The analysis helps to understand how social behavior leads to its consequences such as what business decision is made after a businessmen's meeting. In this paper, we focus on visual human motion analysis which is one important component of social behavior analysis. Human motion analysis in visual surveillance usually tracks the motion of an individual or a group of people, yet social behavior is usually neglected. This paper first delivers a literature survey of visual surveillance, with emphasis on aspects of human motion analysis and social behavior. Second, it offers a perspective for social behavior analysis in an intelligent visual human monitoring system. Third, a social interaction is induced by a social behavior between two persons, one person and one group, or two groups, hence three general scenarios of social interactions are outlined for future theoretical development. The proposed human monitoring system enables the generation of valuable quantified information of social interactions. It provides an objective approach to evaluate performance of a human organization such as a company or a school. Finally, it can raise the awareness of researchers to further explore the field of social behavior analysis.