Multi-resolution background modeling of dynamic scenes using weighted match filters

  • Authors:
  • Quanren Xiong;Christopher Jaynes

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM 2nd international workshop on Video surveillance & sensor networks
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Accurate background modeling is fundamentally important to motion-based segmentation, object tracking, and video surveillance. Models must discriminate between coherent foreground motion and periodic, random, or small pixel variations typically found in complex outdoor scenes. We introduce an adaptive match filter framework that is capable of modeling the locally changing spatial image structure. The correlation values of these filters are combined to robustly discriminate foreground regions from regions that conform to the background model. Each filter is constrained to produce a predefined correlation value with the previously seen background blocks for a particular offset and resolution while minimizing the average energy of the correlation plane. The power spectrum of each sample is weighed by the local temporal gradient to take into account regions that exhibit significant change. The system is demonstrated on challenging outdoor environments including object motion near swaying trees and objects on moving water. Results compare favorably to traditional parametric pixel-based methods that produce a significant number of false-positives under similar conditions.