Visual Timelines of Police Encounters in Body-Worn Camera Footage: Operational Context and Activity Cataloging for Training and Analysis in OpenBWC
Angela Srbinovska, Christopher Homan, Adrian Martin, Ernest Fokou\'e

TL;DR
This paper introduces a method to process police body-worn camera footage into labeled, time-aligned 10-second windows to improve incident review and training efficiency.
Contribution
It presents a privacy-conscious protocol for labeling video windows with operational context and motion intensity, along with models achieving high classification accuracy.
Findings
Context model accuracy: 78.75%
Activity model accuracy: 88.33%
Supports faster incident review and training workflows
Abstract
Law enforcement agencies are accumulating vast amounts of body-worn camera (BWC) footage. However, this remains operationally opaque. That is, analysts and trainers still have to invest considerable time watching full-length videos to pinpoint the start of key encounters and identify the points where activity shifts to something more physically intense. We present an approach to process BWC video into a time-aligned sequence of fixed-length 10-second windows, processed and labeled using a privacy-conscious protocol. Each window is labeled with two dimensions of information: (i) the operational context of the window and (ii) the level of motion intensity within the window, with low-evidence labels for windows for which insufficient evidence exists due to darkness, blur or occlusion. We train models to classify windows based on these two axes using frames sampled from each window encoded…
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