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CSE 291 Final Project: Adaptive Multi-Spectral Differencing. Andrew Cosand UCSD CVRR. Differencing. Detect changes in a sequence of images. Pixels of reference image are subtracted from the current image to determine how different they are.
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CSE 291 Final Project:Adaptive Multi-Spectral Differencing Andrew Cosand UCSD CVRR
Differencing • Detect changes in a sequence of images. • Pixels of reference image are subtracted from the current image to determine how different they are. • Pixels with exceed some difference threshold are assumed to correspond to different objects in the images.
Differencing Reference Image – Current Image = Difference
Problems • Differences other than the object of interest may show up. • Pixel noise • Moving background objects (trees, water) • Lighting changes • Camera movement (small) • Shadows & Reflections
Solutions • Variations can be included in a background model. • Reference frame may use eg Gaussian mixture models to characterize pixels • Reference frame can be updated at different rates. Very slow basically detects changes from when the system was started, very fast detects changes from the previous frame.
Solutions • Very small camera movements can be modeled in the background similar to pixel noise or moving background objects • Other segmentation methods can be used to identify and track objects in the scene • Camera motion can be identified and corrected (Optical flow, correspondence)
Shadows Detected Difference Good Bad Shadow
Solutions • Color Space Conversion • Transform data into more useful form, eg normalized chromaticity or Hue Saturation Intensity colorspace, which separates color and intensity for robust detection in the presence of shadows.
HSI • Hue angle determines color • Saturation determines how ‘colorful’ or ‘washed out’ • Intensity determines brightness
HIS Colorspace Detection • Shadows simply decrease intensity without effecting hue • Hue differencing is therefore quite robust to the presence of shadows • Great • But….
Hue Determination • To decide what ‘color’ a pixel is, it must first have a ‘color’ • Conversion • Normalize R,G,B s.t. 0 r,g,b 1 • h = acos (r-g)+(r-b) 2[(r-g)2 + (r-b)(g-b)]1/2 • Very sensitive when r g b
Hue Differencing Hue ‘Noise’ Causes False Detects
Idea • Since hue information is unreliable for grayish pixels, ignore hue difference results at these pixels and use intensity instead. • Need some weighting function which determines how to do this.
Previous Solution • Francois and Medioni used a saturation threshold to ignore hue information for gray pixels • Works well • Requires threshold to be set
Goal • Want a weighting function which will specify a combination of hue and intensity differencing. • Intensity should receive more weight when hue is unreliable • Hue should receive more weight when it can be reliably determined • Hope to find some underlying relationship
Implementation • Using Euclidian distance to gray line as a color measure • Saturation is somewhat tricky (a la Matlab) • Ideal system would determine weighting function based on training data, similar to backpropogation
Backpropogation • Outputs are weighted combinations of inputs • Determine errors at outputs • Determine how much each input was responsible for the error • Adjust each weight accordingly
Current Algorithm • Examines each pixel, changes weight in proportion to the error • For pixels which should have detected, weight is increased proportionally to 1-detection • For pixels which should NOT have detected, weight is DECREASED proportionally to detection
Insights • Examination of hue errors shows a definite correlation to coloration
Problems • Correlation can vary widely from image to image. • Weights are noisy, skewed by lack of colorful data • Probably needs more data processing • No good model determined yet
Conclusion • System shows definite promise • Model still needs to be determined and adaptively fit
References • A.R.J. Francois, G.G. Medioni, Adaptive Color Background Modeling for Real-Time Segmentation of Video Streams • A. Prati, I. Mikic, M. Trivedi, R. Cucchiara, Detecting Moving Shadows: Formulation, Algorithms and Evaluation • T. Horprasert, D. Harwood, L.S. Davis, A statistical approach for real-time robust background subtraction and shadow detection