Background Subtraction Website

The aim of this web site is to provide resources such as references (3923 papers), datasets (36 datasets), codes (80 codes) and links to demonstration websites (65 websites)  for the research on background subtraction by grouping all related researches and particularly recent advances in this field.

T . Bouwmans, "Background Subtraction Website", Laboratoire MIA, University of La Rochelle, June 2010.

A full overview of background subtraction methods 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]

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This web site presents a survey on background subtraction. If you use information from this web site for publication, please cite the following papers:

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

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