Contextual Constrained Independent Component Analysis based foreground detection for indoor surveillance

Recently, Independent Component Analysis based foreground detection has been proposed for indoor surveillance applications where the foreground tends to move slowly or remain still. Yet such a method often causes discrete segmented foreground objects. In this paper, we propose a novel foreground detection method named Contextual Constrained Independent Component Analysis (CCICA) to tackle this problem. In our method, the contextual constraints are explicitly added to the optimization objective function, which indicate the similarity relationship among neighboring pixels. In this way, the obtained de-mixing matrix can produce the complete foreground compared with the previous ICA model. In addition, our method performs robust to the indoor illumination changes and features a high processing speed. Two sets of image sequences involving room lights switching on/of and door opening/closing are tested. The experimental results clearly demonstrate an improvement over the basic ICA model and the image difference method.