Title
Weighted Low-Rank Decomposition for Robust Grayscale-Thermal Foreground Detection.
Abstract
This paper investigates how to fuse grayscale and thermal video data for detecting foreground objects in challenging scenarios. To this end, we propose an intuitive yet effective method called weighted low-rank decomposition (WELD), which adaptively pursues the cross-modality low-rank representation. Specifically, we form two data matrices by accumulating sequential frames from the grayscale and the thermal videos, respectively. Within these two observing matrices, WELD detects moving foreground pixels as sparse outliers against the low-rank structure background and incorporates the weight variables to make the models of two modalities complementary to each other. The smoothness constraints of object motion are also introduced in WELD to further improve the robustness to noises. For optimization, we propose an iterative algorithm to efficiently solve the low-rank models with three subproblems. Moreover, we utilize an edge-preserving filtering-based method to substantially speed up WELD while preserving its accuracy. To provide a comprehensive evaluation benchmark of grayscale-thermal foreground detection, we create a new data set including 25 aligned grayscale-thermal video pairs with high diversity. Our extensive experiments on both the newly created data set and the public data set OSU3 suggest that WELD achieves superior performance and comparable efficiency against other state-of-the-art approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TCSVT.2016.2556586
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Techn.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Welding,Gray-scale,Robustness,Thermal sensors,Object detection,Benchmark testing
Object detection,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Iterative method,Filter (signal processing),Foreground detection,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Grayscale,Benchmark (computing)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
4
1051-8215
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
0.72
38
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chenglong Li128234.38
xiao wang2568.32
Lei Zhang3779.92
Jin Tang412314.46
Hejun Wu524223.03
Liang Lin63007151.07