A Motion Region Detection and Tracking Method

Nowadays, video surveillance is indispensable in security-sensitive areas. Hence, a significant amount of work has been done in this field. This paper proposes a hybrid framework for motion region detection and an appearance-based real-time motion tracking system. Initially, a foreground map is extracted through a process of subtraction from a background model, applying a temporal differencing method. Then, shadow elimination and morphological operations are used to remove noise. Finally, models are initiated for each detected motion region by extracting features such as center of mass and a color correlogram, which are then used for tracking purposes. As the similarity in distances within a certain radius is measured, the probability of confusing objects is reduced considerably, and therefore, performance is optimized significantly. The proposed framework also uses a robust technique to label people within a group. This framework has the capability to work in indoor, semi-outdoor, and even outdoor environments that generate a penumbra shadow, and it handles the groups formed due to occlusion effectively. The framework takes good care of false foreground pixels due to penumbra shadow. Hence, the proposed framework will play a pivotal role in providing security in highly confidential areas.