Moving Shadow Detection in Video Using Cepstrum

Cataloged from PDF version of article.Moving shadows constitute problems in various applications such as image segmentation and object tracking. The main cause of these problems is the misclassification of the shadow pixels as target pixels. Therefore, the use of an accurate and reliable shadow detection method is essential to realize intelligent video processing applications. In this paper, a cepstrum-based method for moving shadow detection is presented. The proposed method is tested on outdoor and indoor video sequences using well-known benchmark test sets. To show the improvements over previous approaches, quantitative metrics are introduced and comparisons based on these metrics are made

Cepstrum based method for moving shadow detection in video

Moving shadows constitute problems in various applications such as image segmentation and object tracking. Main cause of these problems is the misclassification of the shadow pixels as target pixels. Therefore, the use of an accurate and reliable shadow detection method is essential to realize intelligent video processing applications. In this paper, the cepstrum based method for moving shadow detection is presented. The proposed method is tested on outdoor and indoor video sequences using well-known benchmark test sets. To show the improvements over previous approaches, quantitative metrics are introduced and comparisons based on these metrics are made. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V

Shadow detection using 2D cepstrum

Shadows constitute a problem in many moving object detection and tracking algorithms in video. Usually, moving shadow regions lead to larger regions for detected objects. Shadow pixels have almost the same chromaticity as the original background pixels but they only have lower brightness values. Shadow regions usually retain the underlying texture, surface pattern, and color value. Therefore, a shadow pixel can be represented as a.x where x is the actual background color vector in 3-D RGB color space and a is a positive real number less than 1. In this paper, a shadow detection method based on two-dimensional (2-D) cepstrum is proposed. © 2009 SPIE

Video processing methods robust to illumination variations

Ankara : The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Sciences of Bilkent University, 2010.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2010.Includes bibliographical references leaves 43-46.Moving shadows constitute problems in various applications such as image segmentation, smoke detection and object tracking. Main cause of these problems is the misclassification of the shadow pixels as target pixels. Therefore, the use of an accurate and reliable shadow detection method is essential to realize intelligent video processing applications. In the first part of the thesis, a cepstrum based method for moving shadow detection is presented. The proposed method is tested on outdoor and indoor video sequences using well-known benchmark test sets. To show the improvements over previous approaches, quantitative metrics are introduced and comparisons based on these metrics are made. Most video processing applications require object tracking as it is the base operation for real-time implementations such as surveillance, monitoring and video compression. Therefore, accurate tracking of an object under varying scene and illumination conditions is crucial for robustness. It is well known that illumination variations on the observed scene and target are an obstacle against robust object tracking causing the tracker lose the target. In the second part of the thesis, a two dimensional (2D) cepstrum based approach is proposed to overcome this problem. Cepstral domain features extracted from the target region are introduced into the covariance tracking algorithm and it is experimentally observed that 2D-cepstrum analysis of the target region provides robustness to varying illumination conditions. Another contribution is the development of the co-difference matrix based object tracking instead of the recently introduced covariance matrix based method. One of the problems with most target tracking methods is that they do not have a well-established control mechanism for target loss which usually occur when illumination conditions suddenly change. In the final part of the thesis, a confidence interval based statistical method is developed for target loss detection. Upper and lower bound functions on the cumulative density function (cdf) of the target feature vector are estimated for a given confidence level. Whenever the estimated cdf of the detected region exceeds the bounds it means that the target is no longer tracked by the tracking algorithm. The method is applicable to most tracking algorithms using features of the target image region.Çoğun, FuatM.S

Object tracking under illumination variations using 2D-cepstrum characteristics of the target

Most video processing applications require object tracking as it is the base operation for real-time implementations such as surveillance, monitoring and video compression. Therefore, accurate tracking of an object under varying scene conditions is crucial for robustness. It is well known that illumination variations on the observed scene and target are an obstacle against robust object tracking causing the tracker lose the target. In this paper, a 2D-cepstrum based approach is proposed to overcome this problem. Cepstral domain features extracted from the target region are introduced into the covariance tracking algorithm and it is experimentally observed that 2D-cepstrum analysis of the target object provides robustness to varying illumination conditions. Another contribution of the paper is the development of the co-difference matrix based object tracking instead of the recently introduced covariance matrix based method. ©2010 IEEE

Continuity of object tracking

2022 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.The demand for object tracking (OT) applications has been increasing for the past few decades in many areas of interest: security, surveillance, intelligence gathering, and reconnaissance. Lately, newly-defined requirements for unmanned vehicles have enhanced the interest in OT. Advancements in machine learning, data analytics, and deep learning have facilitated the recognition and tracking of objects of interest; however, continuous tracking is currently a problem of interest to many research projects. This dissertation presents a system implementing a means to continuously track an object and predict its trajectory based on its previous pathway, even when the object is partially or fully concealed for a period of time. The system is divided into two phases: The first phase exploits a single fixed camera system and the second phase is composed of a mesh of multiple fixed cameras. The first phase system is composed of six main subsystems: Image Processing, Detection Algorithm, Image Subtractor, Image Tracking, Tracking Predictor, and the Feedback Analyzer. The second phase of the system adds two main subsystems: Coordination Manager and Camera Controller Manager. Combined, these systems allow for reasonable object continuity in the face of object concealment

Pedestrian Detection and Tracking in Video Surveillance System: Issues, Comprehensive Review, and Challenges

Pedestrian detection and monitoring in a surveillance system are critical for numerous utility areas which encompass unusual event detection, human gait, congestion or crowded vicinity evaluation, gender classification, fall detection in elderly humans, etc. Researchers’ primary focus is to develop surveillance system that can work in a dynamic environment, but there are major issues and challenges involved in designing such systems. These challenges occur at three different levels of pedestrian detection, viz. video acquisition, human detection, and its tracking. The challenges in acquiring video are, viz. illumination variation, abrupt motion, complex background, shadows, object deformation, etc. Human detection and tracking challenges are varied poses, occlusion, crowd density area tracking, etc. These results in lower recognition rate. A brief summary of surveillance system along with comparisons of pedestrian detection and tracking technique in video surveillance is presented in this chapter. The publicly available pedestrian benchmark databases as well as the future research directions on pedestrian detection have also been discussed