Background Subtraction with Dirichlet Process Mixture Models. Haines, T. & Xiang, T. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 36(4):670--683, April, 2014. 00005
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Video analysis often begins with background subtraction. This problem is often approached in two steps-a background model followed by a regularisation scheme. A model of the background allows it to be distinguished on a per-pixel basis from the foreground, whilst the regularisation combines information from adjacent pixels. We present a new method based on Dirichlet process Gaussian mixture models, which are used to estimate per-pixel background distributions. It is followed by probabilistic regularisation. Using a non-parametric Bayesian method allows per-pixel mode counts to be automatically inferred, avoiding over-/under- fitting. We also develop novel model learning algorithms for continuous update of the model in a principled fashion as the scene changes. These key advantages enable us to outperform the state-of-the-art alternatives on four benchmarks.
@article{ haines_background_2014,
  title = {Background {Subtraction} with {Dirichlet} {Process} {Mixture} {Models}},
  volume = {36},
  issn = {0162-8828},
  doi = {10.1109/TPAMI.2013.239},
  abstract = {Video analysis often begins with background subtraction. This problem is often approached in two steps-a background model followed by a regularisation scheme. A model of the background allows it to be distinguished on a per-pixel basis from the foreground, whilst the regularisation combines information from adjacent pixels. We present a new method based on Dirichlet process Gaussian mixture models, which are used to estimate per-pixel background distributions. It is followed by probabilistic regularisation. Using a non-parametric Bayesian method allows per-pixel mode counts to be automatically inferred, avoiding over-/under- fitting. We also develop novel model learning algorithms for continuous update of the model in a principled fashion as the scene changes. These key advantages enable us to outperform the state-of-the-art alternatives on four benchmarks.},
  number = {4},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  author = {Haines, T.S.F. and Xiang, Tao},
  month = {April},
  year = {2014},
  note = {00005},
  keywords = {background},
  pages = {670--683}
}

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