Moving Object Detection under a Moving Camera via Background Orientation Reconstruction

• Main Authors: Wenlong Zhang, Xiaoliang Sun, Qifeng Yu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: moving object detection; orientation field; background reconstruction; Poisson fusion; motion saliency
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/11/3103

Moving object detection under a moving camera is a challenging question, especially in a complex background. This paper proposes a background orientation field reconstruction method based on Poisson fusion for detecting moving objects under a moving camera. As enlightening by the optical flow orientation of a background is not dependent on the scene depth, this paper reconstructs the background orientation through Poisson fusion based on the modified gradient. Then, the motion saliency map is calculated by the difference between the original and the reconstructed orientation field. Based on the similarity in appearance and motion, the paper also proposes a weighted accumulation enhancement method. It can highlight the motion saliency of the moving objects and improve the consistency within the object and background region simultaneously. Furthermore, the proposed method incorporates the motion continuity to reject the false positives. The experimental results obtained by employing publicly available datasets indicate that the proposed method can achieve excellent performance compared with current state-of-the-art methods.