Automatic background updating for video-based vehicle detection
Chunhai Hu, Dongmei Li, Jichuan Liu · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2007
Video-based vehicle detection is one of the most valuable techniques for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). The widely used video-based vehicle detection technique is the background subtraction method. The key problem of this method is how to subtract and update the background effectively. In this paper an efficient background updating scheme based on Zone-Distribution for vehicle detection is proposed to resolve the problems caused by sudden camera perturbation, sudden or gradual illumination change and the sleeping person problem. The proposed scheme is robust and fast enough to satisfy the real-time constraints of vehicle detection.