Histogram-based foreground object extraction for indoor and outdoor scenes

  • Authors:
  • Mandar Kulkarni

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Seventh Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Extracting foreground objects is an important task in many video processing/analysis systems. In this paper, we propose a technique for foreground object extraction, under static camera condition. In our approach the spatial histogram of a single background image is modeled as Mixture of Gaussians and this model is updated after every few frames. To extract the foreground, input frames are compared with current background frame model and foreground pixels are classified according to intensity differences. To mitigate the errors caused due to movement of the background objects (e.g tree leaves in outdoor scenes), we also incorporate optical flow in an efficient manner. We demonstrate performance of our approach on various indoor and outdoor scenes.