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Background Stabilization And Motion Detection In Launch Pad Video Monitoring, Kaushik Gopalan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Automatic detection of moving objects in video sequences is a widely researched topic with application in surveillance operations. Methods based on background cancellation by frame differencing are extremely common. However this process becomes much more complicated when the background is not completely stable due to camera motion. This thesis considers a space application where surveillance cameras around a shuttle launch site are used to detect any debris from the shuttle. The ground shake due to the impact of the launch causes the background to be shaky. We stabilize the background by translation of each frame, the optimum translation being determined …