Detection and location of moving objects using deterministic relaxation algorithms

Two important problems in motion analysis are addressed in this paper: change detection and moving object location. For the first problem, the inter-frame difference is modelized by a mixture of Laplacian distributions, a Gibbs random field is used for describing the label field, and HCF (highest confidence first) algorithm is used for solving the resulting optimization problem. The solution of the second problem is based on the observation of two successive frames alone. Using the results of change detection an adaptive statistical model for the couple of image intensities is identified. Then the labeling problem is solved using HCF algorithm. Results on real image sequences illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

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