Adaptive spatio‐temporal background subtraction using improved Wronskian change detection scheme in Gaussian mixture model framework

Abstract

Background subtraction (BS) is a fundamental step for moving object detection in various video surveillance applications. Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is a widely used BS technique which provides a good compromise between robustness to the background variations and real-time constraints. However, GMM does not support the spatial relationship among neighbouring pixels and it uses a fixed learning rate for every pixel during the parameter update. On the other hand, Wronskian change detection model (WM) is a spatial-domain BS technique which solves misclassification of pixels but fails in the presence of dynamic background. In this study, a novel spatio-temporal BS technique is proposed that exploits spatial relation of Wronskian function and employs it with a new fuzzy adaptive learning rate in a GMM framework. Instead of using WM directly, an improved WM is proposed by adaptively finding out the ratio of the current pixel to the background pixel or its reciprocal, and a weighted Wronskian is developed to mitigate the effect of dynamic background pixels. Additionally, a new fuzzy adaptive learning rate is employed in the GMM framework. Experimental results of the proposed framework yield better silhouette of the moving objects as compared with the state-of-the-art techniques.