Real-time video segmentation

In this article we present a real time algorithm for detecting moving objects in a video sequence taken with a fixed camera. When a background estimation is known, the algorithm is able to detect moving objects and locates them approximately. The method is based on a comparison between each image and the background. We use an a contrario model, assuming that moving objects yield locally major changes in the topographic map. Experimental results show that the algorithm is very robust to noise and to the background estimation. Moreover, the algorithm needs few parameters, which are easy to estimate.