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Title: Visual-Attention-Based Background Modeling for Detecting Infrequently Moving Objects

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
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  1. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States). Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
  2. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA (United States); Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)

Motion is one of the most important cues to separate foreground objects from the background in a video. Using a stationary camera, it is usually assumed that the background is static, while the foreground objects are moving most of the time. However, in practice, the foreground objects may show infrequent motions, such as abandoned objects and sleeping persons. Meanwhile, the background may contain frequent local motions, such as waving trees and/or grass. Such complexities may prevent the existing background subtraction algorithms from correctly identifying the foreground objects. We propose a new approach that can detect the foreground objects with frequent and/or infrequent motions. Specifically, we use a visual-attention mechanism to infer a complete background from a subset of frames and then propagate it to the other frames for accurate background subtraction. Furthermore, we develop a feature-matching-based local motion stabilization algorithm to identify frequent local motions in the background for reducing false positives in the detected foreground. The proposed approach is fully unsupervised, without using any supervised learning for object detection and tracking. Extensive experiments on a large number of videos have demonstrated that the proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art motion detection and background subtraction methods in comparison.

Research Organization:
Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Grant/Contract Number:
IIS-1017199; IIS-1149787; W911NF-10-2-0060
OSTI ID:
1491679
Report Number(s):
BNL-210902-2019-JAAM
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 27, Issue 6; ISSN 1051-8215
Publisher:
IEEECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 30 works
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