Kinect Based Suspicious Posture Recognition for Real-Time Home Security Applications

Suspicious posture recognition is a paramount task with numerous applications in everyday life. We explore one such application in real-time home security using the Microsoft Kinect depth camera. We propose a novel method where the remote device itself detects the suspicious activity. The server is alerted by the remote device in case of a suspicious activity which further alerts the home owners immediately. We show that our method, works in real-time, is robust towards changing lighting conditions and the computations happen on the remote device itself which makes it suitable for real-time home security.