Overview

Author: Thierry BOUWMANS, Associate Professor, Lab. MIA, Univ.  Rochelle, France.

A full overview of the background subtraction methods listed in this website are provided in:

Editors: T. Bouwmans, F. Porikli, B. Hörferlin, A. Vacavant.

Title: Handbook “Background modeling and Foreground Detection for video surveillance:  Traditional and Recent Approaches, Benchmarking and Evaluation".Publisher :CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.

Publication Date :  July 1, 2014. (More information) [Purchase]

Further Improvements

If you would like to list your publication related to this topic on this website, please send me your publication in .pdf and I will add the reference.

Fair Use Policy

As this website gives many information that come from my research, please cite my following survey papers:

T. Bouwmans, “Traditional and Recent Approaches in Background Modeling for Foreground Detection: An Overview”, Computer Science Review, 2014. [pdf]

T. Bouwmans, E. Zahzah, “Robust PCA via Principal Component Pursuit: A Review for a Comparative Evaluation in Video Surveillance”, Special Issue on Background Models Challenge, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, CVIU 2014, Volume 122, pages 22–34, May 2014. [pdf]

T. Bouwmans, "Recent Advanced Statistical Background Modeling for Foreground Detection: A Systematic Survey", Recent Patents on Computer Science, Volume 4, No. 3, pages147-176, September 2011. [pdf]

My recent publications are available on Academia, Research Gate, Researchr, ORCID and Publication List.

Objective

The aim of this web site is to provide resources such as 280 references for the challenges met in video acquired by static cameras by grouping all related researches and particularly recent advances in this field. For this, it is organized in the following sections:

1. Noise Challenges (44 papers)

     Noise images (2 papers),  Turbulences (42 papers)

2. Camera Challenges (16 papers)

    Camera automatic adjustments (6 papers), Camera jitter (6 papers),  High Frame Rate (3 papers), Low-Frame Rate (0 paper), Low Resolution Images (1 paper),

3. Illumination changes (15 papers)

    Gradual Illumination Changes (3 papers), Sudden Illuminition Changes (12 papers)

4. Visual Challenges (6 papers)

    Bootstrapping (0 paper) , Camouflage (4 papers), Foreground Aperture (2 papers)

5. Background Challenges (2 papers)

     Moved Background Ojects (0 paper), Inserted Background Objects (0 paper), Dynamic Backgrounds (2 papers)

6. Foreground Challenges (114 papers)

     Beginning Moving Objects (4 papers), Sleeping Foreground Objects (1 paper), Slow Moving Foreground Objects (6 papers), Small Foreground Objects (103  papers)

7. Shadows (83 papers)