Video background modeling: recent approaches,issues and our proposed techniques

Effective and efficient background subtraction is important to a number of computer vision tasks. We introduce several new techniques to address key challenges for background modeling using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for moving objects detection in a video acquired by a static camera. The novel features of our proposed model are that it automatically learns dynamics of a scene and adapts its parameters accordingly, suppresses ghosts in the foreground mask using a SURF features matching algorithm, and introduces a new spatio-temporal filter to further refine the foreground detection results. Detection of abrupt illumination changes in the scene is dealt with by a model shifting-based scheme to reuse already learned models and spatio-temporal history of foreground blobs is used to detect and handle paused objects. The proposed model is rigorously tested and compared with several previous models and has shown significant performance improvements.