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A Universal Background Subtraction System, Hasan Sajid

Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering

Background Subtraction is one of the fundamental pre-processing steps in video processing. It helps to distinguish between foreground and background for any given image and thus has numerous applications including security, privacy, surveillance and traffic monitoring to name a few. Unfortunately, no single algorithm exists that can handle various challenges associated with background subtraction such as illumination changes, dynamic background, camera jitter etc. In this work, we propose a Multiple Background Model based Background Subtraction (MB²S) system, which is universal in nature and is robust against real life challenges associated with background subtraction. It creates multiple background models …