A COMPARISON BETWEEN BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION ALGORITHMS USING A CONSUMER DEPTH CAMERA

Klaus Greff, André Brandão, Stephan Krauß, Didier Stricker, Esteban Clua

2012

Abstract

Background subtraction is an important preprocessing step in many modern Computer Vision systems. Much work has been done especially in the field of color image based foreground segmentation. But the task is not an easy one so, state of the art background subtraction algorithms are complex both in programming logic and in run time. Depth cameras might offer a compelling alternative to those approaches, because depth information seems to be better suited for the task. But this topic has not been studied much yet, even though the release of Microsoft’s Kinect has brought depth cameras to the public attention. In this paper we strive to fill this gap, by examining some well known background subtraction algorithms for the use with depth images. We propose some necessary adaptions and evaluate them on three different video sequences using ground truth data. The best choice turns out to be a very simple and fast method that we call minimum background.

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Greff K., Brandão A., Krauß S., Stricker D. and Clua E. (2012). A COMPARISON BETWEEN BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION ALGORITHMS USING A CONSUMER DEPTH CAMERA . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-03-7, pages 431-436. DOI: 10.5220/0003849104310436


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp12,
author={Klaus Greff and André Brandão and Stephan Krauß and Didier Stricker and Esteban Clua},
title={A COMPARISON BETWEEN BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION ALGORITHMS USING A CONSUMER DEPTH CAMERA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={431-436},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003849104310436},
isbn={978-989-8565-03-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - A COMPARISON BETWEEN BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION ALGORITHMS USING A CONSUMER DEPTH CAMERA
SN - 978-989-8565-03-7
AU - Greff K.
AU - Brandão A.
AU - Krauß S.
AU - Stricker D.
AU - Clua E.
PY - 2012
SP - 431
EP - 436
DO - 10.5220/0003849104310436