Title
Automatic robust background modeling using multivariate non-parametric kernel density estimation for visual surveillance
Abstract
The final goal for many visual surveillance systems is automatic understanding of events in a site. Higher level processing on video data requires certain lower level vision tasks to be performed. One of these tasks is the segmentation of video data into regions that correspond to objects in the scene. Issues such as automation, noise robustness, adaptation, and accuracy of the model must be addressed. Current background modeling techniques use heuristics to build a representation of the background, while it would be desirable to obtain the background model automatically. In order to increase the accuracy of modeling it needs to adapt to different parts of the same scene and finally the model has to be robust to noise. The building block of the model representation used in this paper is multivariate non-parametric kernel density estimation which builds a statistical model for the background of the video scene based on the probability density function of its pixels. A post processing step is applied to the background model to achieve the spatial consistency of the foreground objects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11595755_44
ISVC
Keywords
Field
DocType
visual surveillance,video scene,multivariate non-parametric kernel density,certain lower level vision,video data,higher level processing,statistical model,automatic robust background modeling,noise robustness,model representation,current background modeling technique,background model,kernel density estimate,kernel density,probability density function
Background subtraction,Computer vision,Data processing,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Image segmentation,Heuristics,Artificial intelligence,Statistical model,Kernel density estimation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3804
0302-9743
3-540-30750-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.48
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alireza Tavakkoli116815.97
Mircea Nicolescu279255.76
George Bebis32397149.44