A Deep Similarity Metric Method Based on Incomplete Data for Traffic Anomaly Detection in IoT

In recent years, with the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, a large amount of data can be captured from sensors for real-time analysis. By monitoring the traffic video data from the IoT, we can detect the anomalies that may occur and evaluate the security. However, the number of traffic anomalies is extremely limited, so there is a severe over-fitting problem when using traditional deep learning methods. In order to solve the problem above, we propose a similarity metric Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based on a channel attention model for traffic anomaly detection task. The method mainly includes (1) A Siamese network with a hierarchical attention model by word embedding so that it can selectively measure similarities between anomalies and the templates. (2) A deep transfer learning method can automatically annotate an unlabeled set while fine-tuning the network. (3) A background modeling method combining spatial and temporal information for anomaly extraction. Experiments show that the proposed method is three percentage points higher than deep convolutional generative adversarial network (DCGAN) and five percentage points higher than AutoEncoder on the accuracy. No more time consumption is needed for the annotation process. The extracted candidates can be classified correctly through the proposed method.