Recognition Of Images Degraded By Linear Motion Blur Without Restoration

The paper is devoted to the feature-based description of images degraded by linear motion blur. The proposed features are invariant with respect to motion velocity, are based on image moments and are calculated directly from the blurred image. In that way, we are able to describe the original image without the PSF identification and image restoration. In many applications (such as in image recognition against a database) our approach is much more effective than the traditional "blind-restoration" one. The derivation of the motion blur invariants is a major theoretical result of the paper. Numerical experiments are presented to illustrate the utilization of the invariants for blurred image description. Stability of the invariants with respect to additive random noise is also discussed and is shown to be sufficiently high. Finally, another set of features which are invariant not only to motion velocity but also to motion direction is introduced. Index Terms: Blurred image, linear imaging..

Robust Background Subtraction with Shadow and Highlight Removal for Indoor Surveillance

This work describes a robust background subtraction scheme involving shadow and highlight removal for indoor environmental surveillance. Foreground regions can be precisely extracted by the proposed scheme despite illumination variations and dynamic background. The Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is applied to construct a color-based probabilistic background model (CBM). Based on CBM, the short-term color-based background model (STCBM) and the long-term color-based background model (LTCBM) can be extracted and applied to build the gradient-based version of the probabilistic background model (GBM). Furthermore, a new dynamic cone-shape boundary in the RGB color space, called a cone-shape illumination model (CSIM), is proposed to distinguish pixels among shadow, highlight, and foreground. A novel scheme combining the CBM, GBM, and CSIM is proposed to determine the background which can be used to detect abnormal conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated via experiments with several video clips collected in a complex indoor environment