A vision-based approach to early detection of drowning incidents in swimming pools
Wenmiao Lu
Yap-Peng Tan
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA;
This paper appears in: Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Feb. 2004
Volume: 14,
Issue: 2
On page(s): 159- 178
ISSN: 1051-8215
INSPEC Accession Number: 7912748
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.821980
Current Version Published: 2004-03-03
Abstract
We present in this paper a vision-based approach to detection of drowning incidents in swimming pools at the earliest possible stage. The proposed approach consists of two main parts: a vision component which can reliably detect and track swimmers in spite of large scene variations of monitored pool areas, and an event-inference module which parses observation sequences of swimmer features for possible drowning behavioral signs. The vision component employs a model-based approach to represent and differentiate the background pool areas and foreground swimmers. The event-inference module is constructed based on a finite state machine, which integrates several reasoning rules formulated from universal motion characteristics of drowning swimmers. Possible drowning incidents are quickly detected using a sequential change detection algorithm. We have applied the proposed approach to a number of video clips of simulated drowning and obtained promising results as reported in this paper.
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