Unsupervised approach for building non-parametric background and foreground models of scenes with significant foreground activity

Authors:
Nicolas Martel-Brisson;André Zaccarin
Affiliations:
Laval University, Quebec, PQ, Canada;Laval University, Quebec, PQ, Canada
Venue:
VNBA '08 Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Vision networks for behavior analysis
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Kernel-based density estimation have been successful for background subtraction in complex environments where background statistics at the pixel level cannot be described parametrically. These methods, however, typically requires a training sequence free or mostly free of foreground activity in order to get a good initial estimate of the background distribution. We present an approach for non-parametric statistical modeling of both foreground and background in complex and busy environments without any restrictions or constraints on the scene foreground activity at initialization. Our unsupervised approach uses the difference in relative frequency and probability mass between background and foreground modes to generate foreground and background likelihood functions as well as estimates of foreground and background priors. For each frame, the output is a non-binary mask of foreground probabilities which can be easily combined with spatial and temporal constraints in an intelligent decision process. Results show that our approach performs well in a variety of complex scenarios where foreground probabilities can be as high as 80%.