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BigBackground-Based Illumination Compensation for Surveillance Video

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing volume 2011, Article number: 171363 (2011) Cite this article

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Illumination changes cause challenging problems for video surveillance algorithms, as objects of interest become masked by changes in background appearance. It is desired for such algorithms to maintain a consistent perception of a scene regardless of illumination variation. This work introduces a concept we call BigBackground, which is a model for representing large, persistent scene features based on chromatic self-similarity. This model is found to comprise 50% to 90% of surveillance scenes. The large, stable regions represented by the model are used as reference points for performing illumination compensation. The presented compensation technique is demonstrated to decrease improper false-positive classification of background pixels by an average of 83% compared to the uncompensated case and by 25% to 43% compared to compensation techniques from the literature.

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    M. Ryan Bales, Dana Forsthoefel, Brian Valentine, D. Scott Wills & Linda M. Wills

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Correspondence to M. Ryan Bales.

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Bales, M.R., Forsthoefel, D., Valentine, B. et al. BigBackground-Based Illumination Compensation for Surveillance Video. J Image Video Proc. 2011, 171363 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/171363

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