Foreground Object Detection in Changing Background Based on Color Co-Occurrence Statistics

  • Authors:
  • Liyuan Li;Weimin Huang;Irene Y. H. Gu;Qi Tian

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WACV '02 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method for detecting foregroundobjects in nonstationary complex environments containingmoving background objects. We derive a Bayesdecision rule for classification of background and foregroundchanges based on inter-frame color co-occurrencestatistics. An approach to store and fast retrieve colorco-occurrence statistics is also established. In the proposedmethod, foreground objects are detected in two steps.First, both foreground and background changes are extractedusing background subtraction and temporal differencing.The frequent background changes are then recognizedusing the Bayes decision rule based on the learnedcolor co-occurrence statistics. Both short-term and longtermstrategies to learn the frequent background changesare proposed. Experiments have shown promising results indetecting foreground objects from video containing waveringtree branches and flickering screens/water surface. Theproposed method has shown better performance as comparedwith two existing methods.