Foreground segmentation in surveillance scenes containing a door

Andrew Miller, Mubarak Shah

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Abstract

We propose a new method for performing accurate background subtraction in scenes with a door, like a building entrance or a hallway. This kind of scene is common in surveillance applications, yet the sporadic motion of a door causes problems for existing systems that falsely report the door as foreground. Our method models the scene's appearance by storing a set of gaussian pixel distributions corresponding to a discrete sample of the door's range of motion. All of the pixels in the image are dependent on the position of the door, so we use the joint probability for all of them to estimate the maximum-likelihood position of the door. We then perform background subtraction using the specific appearance model indexed by our estimated position. We show that our algorithm accurately segments the foreground region in several actual indoor and outdoor surveillance settings.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2007
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1822-1825
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)1424410177, 9781424410170
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE International Conference onMultimedia and Expo, ICME 2007 - Beijing, China
Duration: Jul 2 2007Jul 5 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2007

Other

OtherIEEE International Conference onMultimedia and Expo, ICME 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period7/2/077/5/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Software

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