Moving object detection based on improved VIBE and graph cut optimization

Extracting foreground moving objects from video sequences is an important task and also a hot topic in computer vision and image processing. Segmentation results can be used in many object-based video applications such as object-based video coding, content-based video retrieval, intelligent video surveillance and video-based human–computer interaction. In this paper, we present a novel moving object detection method based on improved VIBE and graph cut method from monocular video sequences. Firstly, perform moving object detection for the current frame based on improved VIBE method to extract the background and foreground information; then obtain the clusters of foreground and background respectively using mean shift clustering on the background and foreground information; Third, initialize the S/T Network with corresponding image pixels as nodes (except S/T node); calculate the data and smoothness term of graph; finally, use max flow/minimum cut to segmentation S/T network to extract the motion objects. Experimental results on indoor and outdoor videos demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed method.