An Improved Algorithm for Real-Time Moving Target Detection Based on Gaussian Mixture Model

Abstract

Gaussian Mixture Model is a popular method to detect moving targets for static cameras. Since the traditional Gaussian Mixture Model has a poor adaptability when the illumination is changing in the scene and has passive learning rate, this paper describes a method that can detect illumination variation and update the learning rate adaptively. It proposes an approach which uses the color histogram matching algorithm and adjusts the learning rate automatically after introducing illumination variation factor and model parameters. Furthermore, the proposed method can select the number of describing model component adaptively, so this method reduced the computation complexity and improved the real-time performance. The experiment results indicate that the detection system gets better robustness, adaptability and stability.