TY - GEN
T1 - Foreground segmentation in surveillance scenes containing a door
AU - Miller, Andrew
AU - Shah, Mubarak
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/icme.2007.4285027
DO - 10.1109/icme.2007.4285027
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:46449092495
SN - 1424410177
SN - 9781424410170
T3 - Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2007
SP - 1822
EP - 1825
BT - Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2007
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - IEEE International Conference onMultimedia and Expo, ICME 2007
Y2 - 2 July 2007 through 5 July 2007
ER -