Title
Median filtering‐based methods for static background extraction from surveillance video
Abstract
We propose some computational methods for extracting static backgrounds from surveillance videos corrupted by noise, blur, or both. The new methods are constructed based on the fact that the matrix representation of a static background consists of identical columns; hence the idea of median filtering is embedded in these methods. These new methods significantly differ from existing methods originating from the robust principal component analysis (RPCA) in that no nuclear-norm term is involved; thus the computation of singular value decomposition can be completely avoided when solving these new models iteratively. This is an important feature because usually the dimensionality of a surveillance video is large and so the involved singular value decomposition (which is inevitable for RPCA-based models) is very expensive computationally. We show that these methods can be easily solved by well-developed operator splitting methods in optimization literature such as the alternating direction method of multipliers. We compare the new methods with their RPCA-based counterparts via testing some synthetic and real videos. Our numerical results show that compared with RPCA-based models, these median filtering-based vaiational models can extract more accurate backgrounds when the background in a surveillance video is static, and numerically, they can be solved much more efficiently. Copyright (c) 2015John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1002/nla.1981
NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA WITH APPLICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
background extraction,video surveillance,median filter,singular value decomposition,alternating direction method of multipliers
Operator splitting,Singular value decomposition,Mathematical optimization,Median filter,Robust principal component analysis,Curse of dimensionality,Matrix representation,Mathematics,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22.0
SP5.0
1070-5325
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.45
21
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinxin Li1278.16
Ng Michael24231311.70
Xiaoming Yuan322013.12