PIXEL-BASED FOREGROUND DETECTION IN REPETITIVE TIME-SERIES REGION

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Wirat Rattanapitak
Somkiat Wangsiripitak

Abstract

Currently, many state-of-the-art background subtraction techniques cannot deal properly with the area of periodic changing background, while some continue classifying them as foreground at intervals, others simply mask that area as a non-region of interest. To cope with this issue, a novel method of detecting repetitive temporal patterns based on the image sequences was proposed in this paper. The main emphasis of the proposed approach is on classifying those pixels as a background and identifying foreground objects in their relevant areas. As for the foreground detection, a model of time series pattern found in each pixel is individually built first; and then, any changes beyond the allowance of model periodicity are then determined as foreground objects. The proposed method could be used and run in parallel with any state-of-the-art background subtraction technique, allowing more accurate foreground-background segmentation. Experimental results showed that using Y channel, the proposed method of detecting time-series background area could achieve 92.9% of recall rate with less than 1% false positives. The recall of foreground detection in an area of repetitive time-series pattern was about 87%; while F-measure was about 0.73 on average. The false positives of foreground detection were also less than 1%. Accordingly, the proposed time-delay detection technique could significantly help to suppress the foreground error on time series background area, especially during the change from one sub-pattern to another which causes a camera sensor to capture both sub-pattern values in one frame. Performance comparison with state-of-the-art methods showed that our proposed method was able to reduce 80% of the average false alarm and improve F-measure to 28% while the computational efficiency was reduced by only 1%.

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Rattanapitak, W., & Wangsiripitak, S. (2019). PIXEL-BASED FOREGROUND DETECTION IN REPETITIVE TIME-SERIES REGION. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, 54–78. https://doi.org/10.22452/mjcs.sp2019no2.4
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