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NIC: a robust background extraction algorithm for foreground detection in dynamic scenes

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posted on 2023-05-19, 03:07 authored by Huynh-The, T, Banos, O, Lee, S, Byeong KangByeong Kang, Kim, ES, Le-Tien, T
This paper presents a robust foreground detection method capable of adapting to different motion speeds in scenes. A key contribution of this work is the background estimation using a proposed novel algorithm, Neighbor-based Intensity Correction (NIC), that identifies and modifies the motion pixels from the difference of the background and the current frame. Concretely, the first frame is considered as an initial background that is updated with the pixel intensity from each new frame based on the examination of neighborhood pixels. These pixels are formed into windows, generated from the background and the current frame, to identify whether a pixel belongs to the background or the current frame. The intensity modification procedure is based on the comparison of the standard deviation values calculated from two pixel windows. The robustness of the current background is further measured using pixel steadiness as an additional condition for the updating process. Finally, the foreground is detected by the background subtraction scheme with an optimal threshold calculated by the Otsu method. This method is benchmarked on several well-known datasets in the object detection and tracking domain, such as CAVIAR 2004, CAVIAR 2007, PETS 2009, PETS 2014, and CDNET 2014. We also compare the accuracy of the proposed method with other state-of-the-art methods via standard quantitative metrics under different parameter configurations. In the experiments, NIC approach outperforms several advanced methods on depressing the detected foreground confusions due to light artifact, illumination change, and camera jitter in dynamic scenes.

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Publication title

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volume

27

Issue

7

Pagination

1478-1490

ISSN

1051-8215

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Place of publication

United States

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Copyright 2016 IEEE

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