A novel evaluation metric based on visual perception for moving target detection algorithm

Traditional performance evaluation index for moving target detection algorithm, whose each index's emphasis is different when it is used to evaluate the performance of the moving target detection algorithm, is inconvenient for people to make an evaluation of the performance of algorithm comprehensively and objectively. Particularly, when the detection results of different algorithms have the same number of the foreground point and the background point, the algorithm's each traditional index is the same, and we can't use the traditional index to compare the performance of the moving target detection algorithms, which is the disadvantage of traditional evaluation index that takes pixel as a unit when calculating the index. To solve this problem, combining with the feature of human's visual perception system, this paper presents a new evaluation index-Visual Fluctuation (VF) based on the principle of image block to evaluate the performance of moving target detection algorithm. Experiments showed that the new evaluation index based on the visual perception makes up for the deficiency of traditional one, and the calculation results are not only in accordance with visual perception of human, but also evaluate the performance of the moving target detection algorithm more objectively.