A new approach of anomaly detection in shopping center surveillance videos for theft prevention based on RLCNN model

The amount of video data produced daily by today’s surveillance systems is enormous, making analysis difficult for computer vision specialists. It is challenging to continuously search these massive video streams for unexpected accidents because they occur seldom and have little chance of being observed. Contrarily, deep learning-based anomaly detection decreases the need for human labor and has comparably trustworthy decision-making capabilities, hence promoting public safety. In this article, we introduce a system for efficient anomaly detection that can function in surveillance networks with a modest level of complexity. The proposed method starts by obtaining spatiotemporal features from a group of frames. The multi-layer extended short-term memory model can precisely identify continuing unusual activity in complicated video scenarios of a busy shopping mall once we transmit the in-depth features extracted. We conducted in-depth tests on numerous benchmark datasets for anomaly detection to confirm the proposed framework’s functionality in challenging surveillance scenarios. Compared to state-of-the-art techniques, our datasets, UCF50, UCF101, UCFYouTube, and UCFCustomized, provided better training and increased accuracy. Our model was trained for more classes than usual, and when the proposed model, RLCNN, was tested for those classes, the results were encouraging. All of our datasets worked admirably. However, when we used the UCFCustomized and UCFYouTube datasets compared to other UCF datasets, we achieved greater accuracy of 96 and 97, respectively.