BMOG: boosted Gaussian Mixture Model with controlled complexity for background subtraction

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2018

Authors

Isabel Martins (Author) Other; Pedro Carvalho (Author) Other; Luís Corte-Real (Author) FEUP; José Luis Alba‑Castro (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Pattern Analysis and Applications

Vol. 21 No. 3

Pages: 641-654

ISSN: 1433-7541

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00N-S8M

DOI: 10.1007/s10044-018-0699-y

Abstract (EN): Developing robust and universal methods for unsupervised segmentation of moving objects in video sequences has proved to be a hard and challenging task that has attracted the attention of many researchers over the last decades. State-of-the-art methods are, in general, computationally heavy preventing their use in real-time applications. This research addresses this problem by proposing a robust and computationally efficient method, coined BMOG, that significantly boosts the performance of a widely used method based on a Mixture of Gaussians. The proposed solution explores a novel classification mechanism that combines color space discrimination capabilities with hysteresis and a dynamic learning rate for background model update. The complexity of BMOG is kept low, proving its suitability for real-time applications. BMOG was objectively evaluated using the ChangeDetection.net 2014 benchmark. An exhaustive set of experiments was conducted, and a detailed analysis of the results, using two complementary types of metrics, revealed that BMOG achieves an excellent compromise in performance versus complexity.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 14