Background Modelling from a Moving Camera

In video analytics based systems, an efficient method for segmenting foreground objects from video frames is the need of the hour. Currently, foreground segmentation is performed by modelling background of the scene with statistical estimates and comparing them with the current scene. Such methods are not applicable for modelling the background of a moving scene, since the background changes between the scenes. The scope of this paper includes solving the problem of background modelling for applications involving moving camera. The proposed method is a non-panoramic background modelling technique that models each pixel with a single Spatio-Temporal Gaussian. Experimentation on various videos promises that the proposed method can detect foreground objects from the frames of moving camera with negligible false alarms. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).