Abstract
We propose a new probabilistic extension to the event calculus using the probabilistic logic programming (PLP) language ProbLog, and a language construct called the annotated disjunction. This is the first extension of the event calculus capable of handling numerous sources of uncertainty (e.g. from primitive event observations and from composite event definitions). It is also the first extension capable of handling multiple sources of event observations (e.g. in multi-sensor environments). We describe characteristics of this new extension (e.g. rationality of conclusions), and prove some important properties (e.g. validity in ProbLog). Our extension is directly implementable in ProbLog, and we successfully apply it to the problem of activity recognition under uncertainty in an event detection data set obtained from vision analytics of bus surveillance video.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2017) |
Subtitle of host publication | May 8–12, 2017, São Paulo, Brazil |
Publisher | International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems |
Pages | 105-113 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Publication status | Published - May 2017 |
Keywords
- The event calculus
- event reasoning
- probabilistic logic programming
- ProbLog
- annotated disjunction