Real-time implementation of the ViBe foreground object segmentation algorithm

This paper presents a novel real-time hardware implementation of the ViBe (VIsual Background Extractor) background generation algorithm in reconfigurable FPGA device. This novel method combines the advantages of typical recursive and non-recursive approaches and achieves very good foreground object segmentation results. In this work the issue of porting ViBe to a FPGA hardware platform is discussed, two modification to the original approach are proposed and a detailed description of the implemented system is presented. This is the first, known to the authors, FPGA implementation of this algorithm.