Detecting Changes in Grey Level Sequences by ML Isotonic Regression

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Lanza;Luigi Di Stefano

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bologna, Italy;University of Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • AVSS '06 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Video and Signal Based Surveillance
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a robust and efficient change detection algorithm for grey-level sequences. A deep investigation of the effects of disturbance factors (illumination changes and automatic or manual adjustments of the camera transfer function, such as AGC, AE and \gamma-correction) on image brightness allows to assume locally an order-preservation of pixel intensities. By a simple statistical modelling of camera noise, an ML isotonic regression procedure can thus be applied to perform change detection. Although the proposed approach may be used as a stand-alone pixel-level change detector, here we apply it to reduced-resolution images. In fact, we aim at using the algorithm as the coarse-level of a coarse-to-fine change detector we presented in [2].