Regularized online Mixture of Gaussians for background subtraction

Hongbin Wang, Paul Miller
2011 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)  
Mixture of Gaussians (MoG) modelling [13] is a popular approach to background subtraction in video sequences. Although the algorithm shows good empirical performance, it lacks theoretical justification. In this paper, we give a justification for it from an online stochastic expectation maximization (EM) viewpoint and extend it to a general framework of regularized online classification EM for MoG with guaranteed convergence. By choosing a special regularization function, l 1 norm, we derived a
more » ... ew set of updating equations for l 1 regularized online MoG. It is shown empirically that l 1 regularized online MoG converge faster than the original online MoG .
doi:10.1109/avss.2011.6027331 dblp:conf/avss/WangM11 fatcat:cqyhizp4rzamfaueak4krqbdg4