Research on Background Modeling Based on Low-Rank Matrix Recovery

Abstract

Key and difficult points of background subtraction method lie in looking for an ideal background modeling under complex scene. Stacking the individual frames as columns of a big matrix, background parts can be viewed as a low-rank background matrix because of large similarity among individual frames, yet foreground parts can be viewed as a sparse matrix as foreground parts play a small role in individual frames. Thus the process of video background modeling is in fact a process of low-rank matrix recovery. Background modeling based on low-rank matrix recovery can separate foreground images from background at the same time without pre-training samples, besides, the approach is robust to illumination changes. However, there exist some shortcomings in background modeling based on low-rank matrix recovery by analyzing numerical experiments, which is developed from three aspects.