Video Data Mining Spotting Trends in Movement through the Use of a Video Database Motion Mining, or analysis, is an invaluable tool for government and commercial applications that discovers patterns in motion data. The data collected from motion analysis can be mined to project upcoming events such as potential traffic congestion due to roadwork or enemy troop movements during a time of political crisis. One of the best ways to collect data on fleeting, short-lived motion is through video. Now, rapid advances in video processing have created new opportunities for the development of systems providing motion processing, analysis and real-time mosaics. This data is then integrated with existing database tools and placed into adapted databases that store the analysis, modeling and indexing of motion data.
Users can then perform data mining queries, receive alerts and detect patterns of activity.
The end result is the ability to discover patterns in motion, not previously evident, that are used to project future events or occurrences. An example of this process is the collection of information on normal Friday afternoon traffic patterns on a local highway. Then on one particular day, there was exceptionally light traffic. If construction is being planned for that stretch of road, this data will help predict the impact on local roads. The ability to use this data real-time also has significant impact because it allows for the detection of anomalous motion patterns as they are occurring.