An improved background subtraction method based on viBe

Abstract

The classic ViBe method has shortcoming that it may detect the “Ghosting” area, when the initial frame contains a moving target or a target moves from a stationary position. In this paper, the Ghosting phenomenon was investigated, and an improved background subtraction method based on ViBe was proposed. The proposed method provided an enhanced pixel classification mechanism and background update mechanism, a significantly better Ghosting melting speed was obtained in the proposed method as compared to the classic ViBe method. The experimental results found that the proposed method had a good performance in static background scenes, and a low computational cost, that the proposed method can be used in real-time supervisory control system.