Poster abstract: Efficient background subtraction for tracking in embedded camera networks

Background subtraction is often the first step in many computer vision applications such as object localisation and tracking. It aims to segment out moving parts of a scene that represent object of interests. In the field of computer vision, researchers have dedicated their efforts to improve the robustness and accuracy of such segmentations but most of their methods are computationally intensive, making them nonviable options for our targeted embedded camera platform whose energy and processing power is significantly more con-strained. To address this problem as well as maintain an acceptable level of performance, we introduce Compressive Sensing (CS) to the widely used Mixture of Gaussian to create a new background subtraction method. The results show that our method not only can decrease the computation significantly (a factor of 7 in a DSP setting) but remains comparably accurate.