An edge-based approach for robust foreground detection

  • Authors:
  • Sebastian Gruenwedel;Peter Van Hese;Wilfried Philips

  • Affiliations:
  • Ghent University TELIN-IPI-IBBT, Sint Pietersnieuwstraat, Gent, Belgium;Ghent University TELIN-IPI-IBBT, Sint Pietersnieuwstraat, Gent, Belgium;Ghent University TELIN-IPI-IBBT, Sint Pietersnieuwstraat, Gent, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ACIVS'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in many image processing applications and a commonly used approach to obtain foreground objects from the background. Many techniques exist, but due to shadows and changes in illumination the segmentation of foreground objects from the background remains challenging. In this paper, we present a powerful framework for detections of moving objects in realtime video processing applications under various lighting changes. The novel approach is based on a combination of edge detection and recursive smoothing techniques. We use edge dependencies as statistical features of foreground and background regions and define the foreground as regions containing moving edges. The background is described by short- and long-term estimates. Experiments prove the robustness of our method in the presence of lighting changes in sequences compared to other widely used background subtraction techniques.