Integrated Region- and Pixel-based Approach to Background Modelling

  • Authors:
  • M. Cristani;M. Bicego;V. Murino

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • MOTION '02 Proceedings of the Workshop on Motion and Video Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper a new probabilistic method for backgroundmodelling is proposed, aimed at the application in videosurveillance tasks using a monitoring static camera. Recently,methods employing Time-Adaptive, Per Pixel, Mixtureof Gaussians (TAPPMOG) modelling have becomepopular due to their intrinsic appealing properties. Nevertheless,they are not able per se to monitor global changesin the scene, because they model the background as a setof independent pixel processes. In this paper, we proposeto integrate this kind of pixel-based information with higherlevel region-based information, that permits to manage alsosudden changes of the background. These pixel- and region-basedmodules are naturally and effectively embedded in aprobabilistic Bayesian framework called particle filtering,that allows a multi-object tracking. Experimental comparisonwith a classic pixel-based approach reveals that theproposed method is really effective in recovering from situationsof sudden global illumination changes of the background,as well as limited non-uniform changes of the sceneillumination.